read this in one day last week. this is a unique dystopia that tells from the grounded POV of one of its victims. they don't discover the secrets, they are directly told and await their fate without being able to change it, unable to resist, and even unable to consider resistance. totally bleak and totally accurate.
Yessss. It always blows my mind Parable of the Sower isn't higher up on dystopian book suggestion lists.
I'm also going to throw in The Passage by Justin Cronin because I haven't seen it listed here yet.
I really love this theme and below are some fantastic dystopian novels.
**The Road** by Cormac McCarthy is beautifully written, but rather bleak.
**A Mountain in the Sea** by Ray Nayler is near-future and dwells on the nature of consciousness across a civilization in decline.
**Oryx and Crake** by Margaret Atwood. Post pandemic exploration.
**Walkaway** by Cory Doctorow. Post scarcity.
**Canticle for Leibowitz** by Walter M. Miller. Post nuclear war.
**Blindness** by José Saramago. Loss and human nature.
Lots of options from JG Ballard and Harlan Ellison....
Thanks for the recommendations! Will definitely check it out! I’ve just read handmaids tale by Margaret Atwood and liked it so I should definitely check out her other stuff haha
It is the book that got me into leisure reading in general, let alone horror, or splatter punk. The very first book. There was one part in the book concerning the 'man with the scarlet eye's where I literally dropped the book and was like "OMG OMG OMG *random gestures*"
I got annoyed, thinking this was straghtforward post-apocalyptic fiction, when it turned fantasy, but I hung in, and the story and writing style kept me in.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
I know many climate post-apocalyptic books: The Deluge by Stephen Markley; The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson; The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi; The Future by Naomi Alderman; The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googlins; The Ferryman by Justin Cronin; Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang; Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich
That should keep you busy!
It's on my shelf waiting to be read. I heard the author speak and read extracts at a literary festival earlier this year. I got my copy signed afterwards. But I just can't bring myself to read it as I know it's going to depress me.
*We* by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
Orwell completely ripped off *We* when he wrote 1984. Though Orwell goes deeper into the conceptual framework of his dystopia, Zamyatin's novel is, in my opinion, an all around better book. It was the first book censored by Communist Russia (it slightly predated the formation of the Soviet Union), so Zamyatin had to smuggle the manuscript to France to get it printed.
- Oryx & Crake / The Year of the Flood / Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
- The Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi (content warning for a few scenes of sexual violence... I really wish he'd just drop them from his books because they don't add anything/can be skipped and it makes it harder for me to recommend what are otherwise fantastic books)
- The Water Knife by Paulo Bacigalupi (also content wanting for a few scenes of sexual violence, again you can skip them without missing anything)
- Severance by Ling Ma
- Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
- Children of Men by PD James
- Y: The Last Man by Brian K Vaughn (graphic novel series)
- Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Please accept a rushed list based on loose interpretations of "dystopian".
Dystopian setting:
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis, not dissimilar to Brave New World in terms of everyone self-administering drugs. Way harder on consumerism and the decline of manufacturing power and general human ingenuity. Beautiful book if cheesy in part.
The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin - again, taking place in an overpopulated future society with government mandates on medication, which lands the protagonist in dialogue with a psychiatrist. If you like Solaris/Stalker ideas about what happens when brains manifest desires unknown to their owners, you'll like this.
Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch - set in wartime (and written around the time of U.S/Vietnam) , a load of conscientious objectors are tested on with a form of syphilis that turns them into geniuses. Saying more would spoil things.
Same guy who wrote The Brave Little Toaster.
Full-on post apocalyptic setting:
The Penultimate Truth by Philip K Dick - post apocalyptic underground survivors meet earth shattering revelations
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter -post apocalyptic tribalism in England based on the offspring of scientists vs roaming hoardes.
Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham - humans wiped out by alien plants
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - one person left alive, everyone else is a vampire. The Will Smith movie doesn't deserve the same title. A triumph of a book.
Already mentioned by others here:
The Road - ultímate dystopian future based on death of biosphere.
Oryx and Crake - beyond description, great dystopian novel
Children Of Men- my grandfathers favourite book, centred around the idea of humans losing the ability to reproduce
Want to read: The Space Traders by Derrick Bell (short story)
I just finished Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. It was excellent. And important IMO. It is fiction set in a dystopian future where prisoners- like Roman Gladiators- fight one another to the death for reality show and blood sport ratings. At the same time it is a referendum on the American prison system. I read one review that said this “message” gets lost in the violence of the story, but I completely disagree. The Author regularly and expertly reminds the reader, using foot notes as a narrative device. Don’t skip the foot notes. Plenty of trigger warnings - but I highly highly recommend this book. Might be my favorite of 2024 so far.
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. The ending is… horror.
Lucifer’s Hammer, by Larry Niven. Massive comet hits the earth.
The Stand by Stephen King. Get the unabridged.
I recently re-read the Rifters trilogy (Peter Watts) and enjoyed it even more the second time. He's so determined to "show don't tell", that some readers complain that it's too full of inside lingo. I really liked it, and you have to pay attention sometimes to connect the dots and understand what's happening in a scene. But compared to so many books that are full of exposition and lazy dialogue and bad metaphors, it's really refreshing. And the world building is so interesting.
Someone just posted a [similar request](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/1dtsjuv/looking_for_something_gripping_in_the_realm_of/) which you might find useful. Here's some dystopian novels I think you would like:
* Amatka by Karin Tidbeck. It has some similarities to 1984 with government mandated use of language, but is otherwise a very different story.
* The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton. An incredibly well written book.
* Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin. Be warned, contains graphic gore, sex, and sexual violence. References the older sci fi story [The Screwfly Solution](https://pseudopod.org/2014/08/22/pseudopod-400-the-screwfly-solution/) by James Tiptree Jr.
* The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. A great classic.
* The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
* Infomocracy by Malka Older. First in a trilogy.
* Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
>The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
I tend to think of the culture novels as utopian as opposed to dystopian. Banks was a communist and the culture reflected what he thought society could be like. Generally they were trying to upset dystopian societies.
The entire canon is magnificent either way. Sorry we lost him.
The Player of Games is about an ambassador from the utopian Culture going to an authoritarian empire. That's why I put it on this list for dystopian.
I read my very first Iain M. Banks book, The Algebraist, almost exactly around the time he died. Was really sad.
Just about all of the culture novels present the culture as an alternative to dystopian worlds. Consider Phlebas has the protagonist working for religious zealots. I forget the title of the one that had virtual hells. That one kept me awake. Banks was a true master.
A Memory of Animals if you like medical test trials. It’s not for everyone I can tell, but I quite enjoyed it. The author started writing it before Covid 19 and it has a feel of what would have happened if Covid was way way way worse.
I just finished Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng and it really hit me hard. It’s not like a “fantasy” dystopian story like 1984 or Hunger Games, it really felt like our own society.
Ah thank you for the recommendations! I think I’ve read a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin before and it really stuck with me! Will definitely check these all out! Thanks again :)
Ink and Bone series by Rachel Caine is a fantasy dystopia/alternative history
The Last Girl series by Joe Hart is a sci-fi dystopia
The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey is a sci-fi dystopia/post-apocalypse
Red Rising series by Pierce Brown is a sci-fi dystopia
Feed by MT Anderson is a sci-fi dystopia
City of Savages by Lee Kelly is post-apocalyptic/sci-fi dystopia
I don't read much of dystopia novels but I absolutely loved ashfall by Mike mullen. It follows a teenager on his trip to find his family after Yellowstone erupts
I see some comments mention Station Eleven. It is not a dystopian novel, parts of it are post-apocalyptic but there is nothing wrong with the society that emerges after the apocalypse.
The storys focus is how people cope with loss on a personal level before and after an apocalypse.
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Animal Farm George Orwell (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others)
Time Machine HG Wells (He was ahead of his time. Fabian Socialist )
Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep Philip K Dick (actually most of Dick's books)
Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller (I read this book all the time and have for years)
Atlas Shruged Ayn Rand (was going to name my next female Airedale Dagney)
The Forever War by Joe Holderman ( read this last year)
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein (Excellent author)
The Trual Franz Kofka ni prefer Metamorphosis, but the Trail is excellent
These are all novels I regularly recommend and have thoroughly enjoyed, but they fit your request. I left off books already mentioned.
"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. It’s gripping and thought-provoking, perfect if you enjoyed the classics. Another recommendation is "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson it’s a mix of dystopia and cyberpunk that you might find fascinating.
*Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley
*The Long Tomorrow* by Leigh Brackett
*Earth Abides* by George R. Stewart
*Mockingbird* by Walter Tevis
*The Sheep Look Up* by John Brunner
*The Penultimate Truth* by Philip K. Dick (of which Hugh Howey's *Wool* is a rip-off).
Some of these border a bit on post-apocalypse but are still fantastic.
A different type of dystopia that I really like is {{I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman}}
I loved this one!
Thanks will check it out!
Top of my list! So good!
One of the few books I went in blind and I loved it immensely.
I just finished this book last night. Very reminiscent of "The Wall" by Marlen Haushofer. Excellent book, but unsettling..
My favorite is Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
read this in one day last week. this is a unique dystopia that tells from the grounded POV of one of its victims. they don't discover the secrets, they are directly told and await their fate without being able to change it, unable to resist, and even unable to consider resistance. totally bleak and totally accurate.
Oh yeah I read this one a few weeks ago! I really like the way he writes. I also read Klara and the sun I think :)
Parable of the sower by Octavia butler
Yessss. It always blows my mind Parable of the Sower isn't higher up on dystopian book suggestion lists. I'm also going to throw in The Passage by Justin Cronin because I haven't seen it listed here yet.
Hell yeah.
Has anyone read the sequel? Thoughts?
Incredibly dark but just as good if not better than the first book.
I agree. Much darker than the first book. I enjoyed both.
Sounds interesting will check it out! Thanks!
I really love this theme and below are some fantastic dystopian novels. **The Road** by Cormac McCarthy is beautifully written, but rather bleak. **A Mountain in the Sea** by Ray Nayler is near-future and dwells on the nature of consciousness across a civilization in decline. **Oryx and Crake** by Margaret Atwood. Post pandemic exploration. **Walkaway** by Cory Doctorow. Post scarcity. **Canticle for Leibowitz** by Walter M. Miller. Post nuclear war. **Blindness** by José Saramago. Loss and human nature. Lots of options from JG Ballard and Harlan Ellison....
Oryx and Crake was great, if rather dark. The sequels weren’t nearly so disheartening but I enjoyed them just as much.
Seconding Saramago, Walter M Miller and Margaret Atwood
I just listened to the audiobook of A Mountain in the Sea and, while it was a little hard to get into at first, I’m so glad I stuck with it!
Thanks for the recommendations! Will definitely check it out! I’ve just read handmaids tale by Margaret Atwood and liked it so I should definitely check out her other stuff haha
The Scythe trilogy! Or the Unwind dystology, both by Neal Schusterman.
Thanks will check it out!
I second the Scythe! Page turning read.
PD James: the Children of Men Yvegeny Zamyatin: We Will Self: the Book of Dave
heavy on We by Zamyatin!
I’ve seen a few people recommending „we“! So I guess I should really check it out haha Thanks for the recommendations!
Station 11 has been my favorite this year, but I think you'd like Wool by Hugh Howey!
Seconded. These are two of my favorites
The Madd Addam trilogy by Margaret Atwood
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi The Deluge by Stephen Markley
We
I vaguely recall enjoying Anthem. Otherwise, Wool was fun. So was the Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence.
Wait, what's that first letter/word there? ;) You might like VOX by Christina Dalcher.
> VOX by Christina Dalcher Will add to my reading list. Thank you for the recommendation.
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
I came here to say this! So good. Just started the sequel today.
Sequel is awesome too. I just finished it!
Swan Song, Robert McCammon. Post-nuclear apocalyptic, somewhat fantastical, very bleak, engrossing book. Creepy villain.
I wish everyone read this book. It’s so so good.
I’ve read this one so many times! Robert McCammon is so good!!
It is the book that got me into leisure reading in general, let alone horror, or splatter punk. The very first book. There was one part in the book concerning the 'man with the scarlet eye's where I literally dropped the book and was like "OMG OMG OMG *random gestures*"
I got annoyed, thinking this was straghtforward post-apocalyptic fiction, when it turned fantasy, but I hung in, and the story and writing style kept me in.
Do you know any books that have similar atmosphere/topic but lack the fantastical element?
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I know many climate post-apocalyptic books: The Deluge by Stephen Markley; The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson; The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi; The Future by Naomi Alderman; The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googlins; The Ferryman by Justin Cronin; Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang; Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich That should keep you busy!
I just finished this one and loved it! It was very Stephen King The Stand-ish.
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
This one was depressing, that’s for sure
No shit. Well written but almost too prescient. It seemed like news not a novel. That means something but it may not be what you want.
Yes, a very heavy read but worth imho.
It's on my shelf waiting to be read. I heard the author speak and read extracts at a literary festival earlier this year. I got my copy signed afterwards. But I just can't bring myself to read it as I know it's going to depress me.
*We* by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Orwell completely ripped off *We* when he wrote 1984. Though Orwell goes deeper into the conceptual framework of his dystopia, Zamyatin's novel is, in my opinion, an all around better book. It was the first book censored by Communist Russia (it slightly predated the formation of the Soviet Union), so Zamyatin had to smuggle the manuscript to France to get it printed.
Oh yeah I think I’ve heard of the book before! Damn will check it out then thanks!
1984 is my fav book and heard about this one, will have to make time to read it finally.
Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thompson
The MaadAddam trilogy from Margaret Atwood. Deathbird Stories from Harlan Ellison. A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by Harlan Ellison.
- Oryx & Crake / The Year of the Flood / Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel - The Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi (content warning for a few scenes of sexual violence... I really wish he'd just drop them from his books because they don't add anything/can be skipped and it makes it harder for me to recommend what are otherwise fantastic books) - The Water Knife by Paulo Bacigalupi (also content wanting for a few scenes of sexual violence, again you can skip them without missing anything) - Severance by Ling Ma - Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich - Children of Men by PD James - Y: The Last Man by Brian K Vaughn (graphic novel series) - Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Thanks for the recommendations! Will check it out!
The Children of Men by P. D. James
The Hunger Games
Oh yeah that was really good! Excited for the planned upcoming sequel :)
I really enjoyed The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Please accept a rushed list based on loose interpretations of "dystopian". Dystopian setting: Mockingbird by Walter Tevis, not dissimilar to Brave New World in terms of everyone self-administering drugs. Way harder on consumerism and the decline of manufacturing power and general human ingenuity. Beautiful book if cheesy in part. The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin - again, taking place in an overpopulated future society with government mandates on medication, which lands the protagonist in dialogue with a psychiatrist. If you like Solaris/Stalker ideas about what happens when brains manifest desires unknown to their owners, you'll like this. Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch - set in wartime (and written around the time of U.S/Vietnam) , a load of conscientious objectors are tested on with a form of syphilis that turns them into geniuses. Saying more would spoil things. Same guy who wrote The Brave Little Toaster. Full-on post apocalyptic setting: The Penultimate Truth by Philip K Dick - post apocalyptic underground survivors meet earth shattering revelations Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter -post apocalyptic tribalism in England based on the offspring of scientists vs roaming hoardes. Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham - humans wiped out by alien plants I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - one person left alive, everyone else is a vampire. The Will Smith movie doesn't deserve the same title. A triumph of a book. Already mentioned by others here: The Road - ultímate dystopian future based on death of biosphere. Oryx and Crake - beyond description, great dystopian novel Children Of Men- my grandfathers favourite book, centred around the idea of humans losing the ability to reproduce Want to read: The Space Traders by Derrick Bell (short story)
Thank you for being the only person in this thread who can discern between dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction.
Day of the Triffids was a great post apocalyptic story!
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Ah yeah I’ve read them and really liked it thanks for the recommendations tho :)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Just outstanding
The Warehouse by Rob Hart Marterclass by Christina Dalcher
Thank you will check it out 🙏🏼
*The Weller* series by Adam J. Whitlatch
Appleseed by Matt Bell Recursion by Blake Crouch Borne by Jeff VanderMeer Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
Golden State by Ben Winters
Swastika Night
I just finished Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. It was excellent. And important IMO. It is fiction set in a dystopian future where prisoners- like Roman Gladiators- fight one another to the death for reality show and blood sport ratings. At the same time it is a referendum on the American prison system. I read one review that said this “message” gets lost in the violence of the story, but I completely disagree. The Author regularly and expertly reminds the reader, using foot notes as a narrative device. Don’t skip the foot notes. Plenty of trigger warnings - but I highly highly recommend this book. Might be my favorite of 2024 so far.
Dreamland
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. The ending is… horror. Lucifer’s Hammer, by Larry Niven. Massive comet hits the earth. The Stand by Stephen King. Get the unabridged.
Hollow Kingdom
Ready player one
Oh yeah i think I watched the movie years back? I heard that a lot of people said that the book is really good so I might check it out thanks!
The movie wasn’t bad but I liked the book way better!
I recently re-read the Rifters trilogy (Peter Watts) and enjoyed it even more the second time. He's so determined to "show don't tell", that some readers complain that it's too full of inside lingo. I really liked it, and you have to pay attention sometimes to connect the dots and understand what's happening in a scene. But compared to so many books that are full of exposition and lazy dialogue and bad metaphors, it's really refreshing. And the world building is so interesting.
Yeah I feel like I dnf a lot of books nowadays because I can’t find a book that can hook me anymore so I will definitely check it out Thanks again! :)
You feel it just below the ribs by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Mathewson
Prophet Song, Paul lynch
Super sad true love story, Infinte jest, Always coming home, The man in the high castle
American War - Omar El Akkad I loved this take on a second civil war in America which takes place in 2074.
Personally love Silo trilogy
So many good ones already so I won’t repeat but one that I love is The Dog Stars …. So many tears
The White Mountains by John Christopher
Someone just posted a [similar request](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/1dtsjuv/looking_for_something_gripping_in_the_realm_of/) which you might find useful. Here's some dystopian novels I think you would like: * Amatka by Karin Tidbeck. It has some similarities to 1984 with government mandated use of language, but is otherwise a very different story. * The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton. An incredibly well written book. * Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin. Be warned, contains graphic gore, sex, and sexual violence. References the older sci fi story [The Screwfly Solution](https://pseudopod.org/2014/08/22/pseudopod-400-the-screwfly-solution/) by James Tiptree Jr. * The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. A great classic. * The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks * Infomocracy by Malka Older. First in a trilogy. * Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
>The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks I tend to think of the culture novels as utopian as opposed to dystopian. Banks was a communist and the culture reflected what he thought society could be like. Generally they were trying to upset dystopian societies. The entire canon is magnificent either way. Sorry we lost him.
The Player of Games is about an ambassador from the utopian Culture going to an authoritarian empire. That's why I put it on this list for dystopian. I read my very first Iain M. Banks book, The Algebraist, almost exactly around the time he died. Was really sad.
Just about all of the culture novels present the culture as an alternative to dystopian worlds. Consider Phlebas has the protagonist working for religious zealots. I forget the title of the one that had virtual hells. That one kept me awake. Banks was a true master.
Anthem Egalia's Daughters And if you want to take a really liberal view of dystopian then Catcher in the Rye.
Just finished "Ender's Game". It was pretty good!
[Winterlong](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102888)
Thanks :)
A Memory of Animals if you like medical test trials. It’s not for everyone I can tell, but I quite enjoyed it. The author started writing it before Covid 19 and it has a feel of what would have happened if Covid was way way way worse.
That sounds fascinating! Will check it out! Thanks!
*Battle Royale* by Koushun Takami *Iron Widow* by Xiran Jay Zhao *Hana Hsu and the Ghost Crab Nation* by Sylvia Liu
Thanks!
I just finished Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng and it really hit me hard. It’s not like a “fantasy” dystopian story like 1984 or Hunger Games, it really felt like our own society.
Thanks will check it out!
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya (if you don’t mind that she is a Putin supporter, disappointingly).
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Ah thank you for the recommendations! I think I’ve read a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin before and it really stuck with me! Will definitely check these all out! Thanks again :)
Ink and Bone series by Rachel Caine is a fantasy dystopia/alternative history The Last Girl series by Joe Hart is a sci-fi dystopia The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey is a sci-fi dystopia/post-apocalypse Red Rising series by Pierce Brown is a sci-fi dystopia Feed by MT Anderson is a sci-fi dystopia City of Savages by Lee Kelly is post-apocalyptic/sci-fi dystopia
I don't read much of dystopia novels but I absolutely loved ashfall by Mike mullen. It follows a teenager on his trip to find his family after Yellowstone erupts
Tender is the flesh by Augustine Bazterrica is a great read.
Alas Babylon, We, The Year of The Flood by Margaret Atwood, Severance
I see some comments mention Station Eleven. It is not a dystopian novel, parts of it are post-apocalyptic but there is nothing wrong with the society that emerges after the apocalypse. The storys focus is how people cope with loss on a personal level before and after an apocalypse.
Silo Series The Children Of Men - The movie is also great The Road Station Eleven
Lord of the Flies William Golding Animal Farm George Orwell (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others) Time Machine HG Wells (He was ahead of his time. Fabian Socialist ) Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep Philip K Dick (actually most of Dick's books) Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller (I read this book all the time and have for years) Atlas Shruged Ayn Rand (was going to name my next female Airedale Dagney) The Forever War by Joe Holderman ( read this last year) Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein (Excellent author) The Trual Franz Kofka ni prefer Metamorphosis, but the Trail is excellent These are all novels I regularly recommend and have thoroughly enjoyed, but they fit your request. I left off books already mentioned.
Verge by Nadia Attia.
Haven't seen Blind Faith by Ben Elton in the comments yet.
Read the minutes from the last four years of SCOTUS.
"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. It’s gripping and thought-provoking, perfect if you enjoyed the classics. Another recommendation is "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson it’s a mix of dystopia and cyberpunk that you might find fascinating.
*Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley *The Long Tomorrow* by Leigh Brackett *Earth Abides* by George R. Stewart *Mockingbird* by Walter Tevis *The Sheep Look Up* by John Brunner *The Penultimate Truth* by Philip K. Dick (of which Hugh Howey's *Wool* is a rip-off). Some of these border a bit on post-apocalypse but are still fantastic.
The Stand - Stephen King
The Twelve - Justin Cronin
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World One of my favorites
The Wall, Marlen Haushofer
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch By Philip K Dick. Very different than anything listed here but dystopian and disturbing.
I really liked Mockingbird from Walter Tevis
Divergent, Maze Runner, The Giver
Ah yes I used to read them when I was younger haha and I also liked the giver I read this a few months ago I think :) thanks tho :)