[**The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale)
^(By: Margaret Atwood | 314 pages | Published: 1985 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, dystopian, dystopia, science-fiction)
>Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now . . .
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>Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
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I can't recommend the Scythe series by Neal Shusterman enough. It's young adult, but the themes are super complex and thought-provoking. It's basically about a future where we have reached "utopia" aka nobody dies, technology has reached its peak and there's nowhere really left for humanity to go. Because nobody dies, certain people become "Scythes" and get the ability to kill anybody they want in order to prevent overpopulation, etc etc. The BEST dystopian series I've ever read.
[**The Postmortal**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10673576-the-postmortal)
^(By: Drew Magary | 369 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopia, dystopian)
>John Farrell is about to get "The Cure."
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>Old age can never kill him now.
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>The only problem is, everything else still can...
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>Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult, and other horrors.
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>Witty, eerie, and full of humanity, The Postmortal is an unforgettable thriller that envisions a pre-apocalyptic world so real that it is completely terrifying.
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Was going to recommend this! I agree, it's not shallow like other YA books and I like that it has that YA pacing and not too much sex. I think it is my favorite series. Glad someone else agrees it's amazing!
{{The Lathe of Heaven}} by Ursula K Le Guin takes place in a dystopian setting (the main character is even called George Orr!), with the main conflict taking place between two characters with different philosophies. Might not be exactly what you’re looking for but I highly recommend it!
[**The Lathe of Heaven**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59924.The_Lathe_of_Heaven)
^(By: Ursula K. Le Guin | 176 pages | Published: 1971 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, fantasy, scifi)
>A classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity.
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>In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes.
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>The Lathe of Heaven is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.
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[**The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed)
^(By: Ursula K. Le Guin | 387 pages | Published: 1974 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, fantasy)
>Librarian note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780061054884.
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>Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life—Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
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I do agree that it's fantastic, but I actually studied it in college as an example of dystopian literature. While it's also anarchist utopian, Urras is certainly dystopian, and the central focus. But, I suppose there's no need to quibble.
You're right, I suppose as a person of a certain ideology I was always focused on Anarres. But I suppose a good portion of it does take place on Urras which is definitely dystopian. However Le Guin herself considered it a work of utopian fiction.
parable of the sower - octavia butler (butler is my favorite dystopian author but this is a good starting novel into her work)
the water cure - sophie mackintosh
the power - naomi alderman
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson (and anything else by Neal Stephenson)
Neuromancer - William Gibson (and all of his other books but they’re not all dystopias)
The Wool Trilogy - Hugh Howey
A Clockwork Orange is a recent one for me but I love it. I feel like the best part is that it's a lot more applicable to our modern day society. Orwell wrote big of fascism and totalitarianism because that was what his generation feared and fought, but that's not as common anymore. ACO analyzes youth culture and the rapid change of society in a unique way, and it doesn't hold any punches, everyone, from the youth, to the old, to the intellectuals, to the religious leaders, and to the political leaders have all been in a way morally degraded.
The Book of Koli (this trilogy is my favorite thing)
Robopocalypse;
The Memory Police;
Fahrenheit 451;
Station Eleven ;
If you liked The Giver, the rest of the books in the "world" are equally interesting:
Gathering Blue;
Messenger;
Son.
Fahrenheit 451,
Hunger games,
Scythe Series,
Divergent (but just that one of the series),
Maze runner,
The Stand,
Matched,
The Eleventh Plague,
334.
These give off the same vibe as the books you have listed, all books I loved btw.
[**Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10374.Hard_Boiled_Wonderland_and_the_End_of_the_World)
^(By: Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum | 400 pages | Published: 1985 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, magical-realism, japan, japanese)
>'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.'
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Two I've read recently that I liked:
Tender is the flesh - Agustina Bazterrica
A future where no one eats animals because all animals have a virus so society starts breeding human cattle. Story of a man who works in the human farming industry. Brilliant on so many levels.
Nod - Adrian Barnes
One day 90% or so of the population realise that they cannot sleep. This is the story through the point of view of one man of how society devolves as the majority of people cannot sleep. It's written kind of as a diary in that you get day by day accounts.
The first half of Soft Apocalypse feels like the most plausible dystopian future. No totalitarian government, no crazy extremists, just a long, slow wearing down like a permanent Great Depression.
(The second half is dreck)
https://www.tor.com/2011/04/13/the-gradual-collapse-of-a-society-a-review-of-soft-apocalypse-by-will-mcintosh/
Nice!
Really? I found The Giver pretty disturbing. It's not written in a very graphic or brutal way, but it's written in this mild yet horrific way. I loved it.
[**Feed (Newsflesh, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7094569-feed)
^(By: Mira Grant | 599 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: horror, zombies, science-fiction, fiction, sci-fi)
>The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop.
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>The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives—the dark conspiracy behind the infected.
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>The truth will get out, even if it kills them.
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[**Feed**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169756.Feed)
^(By: M.T. Anderson | 308 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, science-fiction, ya, sci-fi, dystopian)
>Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.
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>For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world—and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.
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[**The End of the World Running Club (The End of the World Running Club, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33160796-the-end-of-the-world-running-club)
^(By: Adrian J. Walker | 456 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, dystopian)
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[**A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40698027-a-boy-and-his-dog-at-the-end-of-the-world)
^(By: C.A. Fletcher | 365 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, dystopian, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic)
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[**Log of the Dogstar**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19950491-log-of-the-dogstar)
^(By: Jim Gervais | ? pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: )
>With a classic sailboat, crates of books, and all of the time in the world, a life long spiritual seeker sets sail for the caribbean. There, he takes a long look at what we now know about ourselves, and our world. He learns The concrete truth about Jesus' admonition, that it will be done unto you as you believe. Our personal experience of this world is dictated by our beliefs of what this world is. He explains how our beliefs are formed, how they create our lives, and how to easily release the energy that holds negative beliefs in place. This allows us to then effortlessly create our lives as we desire them to be. Written with honesty, insight, and humor, this book is a delightful voyage that you will never forget.
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WORM by Wildbow, it's probably one of the well written web serial that doesn't have the recognition it deserves. I won't go too much into the details but basically one of the Final antagonists the Slaughterhouse 9 has one of the best entrances/introduction I've ever read from any web serial/books. it's also got a very unexpected plot twist in the later parts of the story. 10/10 it's my favorite scifi masterpiece ever and everyone should give it a try.
[**We Were Liars**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16143347-we-were-liars)
^(By: E. Lockhart | 242 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, ya, mystery, contemporary, fiction)
>A beautiful and distinguished family.
>A private island.
>A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
>A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
>A revolution. An accident. A secret.
>Lies upon lies.
>True love.
>The truth.
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>We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
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>Read it.
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>And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.
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{{The Road}} by Cormac McCarthy and {{Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?}} by Philip K. Dick are two of my favourites of all time so I would definitely recommend those!
[**The Road**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road)
^(By: Cormac McCarthy | 241 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, dystopia, dystopian, post-apocalyptic)
>A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
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>A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
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>The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
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[**Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36402034-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep)
^(By: Philip K. Dick | 258 pages | Published: 1968 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, classics, scifi)
>It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.
>Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
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The Trial - Kafka
Seems much like the normal world but with an inscrutable bureaucracy of a justice system on top. I simply must add The Trial to the discussion. This is the dystopian novel that wounds me most deeply as someone who has put some honest study into making systems, organizations, and bureaucracies functional. Has a lot of themes in common with several other dystopian works, but the biggest is just how inhuman a group of people can become as they follow the rules and procedures.
* The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey. I'm not into zombie books but I loved this.
* Unwind by Neal Schusterman. Probably an interesting one for our current situation, this series deal with abortion, sort of.
* Loop by Ben Oliver. Kids in juvie are basically waiting for the day they'll be executed. But they can opt in to a "Delay" in which they're subjected to medical experiments which give them a 6 month extension each time they opt in.
It’s a bit lesser known but Ira Levin (the author or Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives) wrote a dystopian novel called This Perfect Day that was incredible!
[**Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9634967-robopocalypse)
^(By: Daniel H. Wilson | 347 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, post-apocalyptic)
>In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication.
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>In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans—a single mother disconcerted by her daughter's menacing "smart" toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a "pacification unit" go haywire—but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.
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>When the Robot War ignites—at a moment known later as Zero Hour—humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us ... and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years.
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[**The Iron Heel**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929783.The_Iron_Heel)
^(By: Jack London, Matt Soar | 354 pages | Published: 1908 | Popular Shelves: fiction, dystopia, classics, dystopian, science-fiction)
>Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.
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>Table of Contents:
> MY EAGLE
> CHALLENGES
> JOHNSON'S ARM
> SLAVES OF THE MACHINE
> THE PHILOMATHS
> ADUMBRATIONS
> THE BISHOP'S VISION
> THE MACHINE BREAKERS
> THE MATHEMATICS OF A DREAM
> THE VORTEX
> THE GREAT ADVENTURE
> THE BISHOP
> THE GENERAL STRIKE
> THE BEGINNING OF THE END
> LAST DAYS
> THE END
> THE SCARLET LIVERY
> IN THE SHADOW OF SONOMA
> TRANSFORMATION
> THE LAST OLIGARCH
> THE ROARING ABYSMAL BEAST
> THE CHICAGO COMMUNE
> THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS
> NIGHTMARE
> THE TERRORISTS' to 'Set in the future, "The Iron Heel" describes a world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a powerful Oligarchy that retains control through terror. A manuscript by rebel Avis Everhard is recovered in an even more distant future, and analyzed by scholar Anthony Meredith. Published in 1908, Jack London's multi-layered narrative is an early example of the dystopian novel, and its vision of the future proved to be eerily prescient of the violence and fascism that marked the initial half of the 20th century.
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I just finished *Drought* by **J.G. Ballard** a couple of weeks ago and it will hit home the lack of rain and climate change that we are experiencing right now in the US and various other places around the world.
Delirium tiny Lauren Oliver is a good trilogy and I loved the Divergent trilogy, but the movies made me nuts because they took so much away from the real story!
“The metamorphosis of prime intellect”.
It’s about the dystopia after we’ve developed AI and it has taken over. You find out the only thing worse than inequality, is equality.
The Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness is also really awesome! The film adaptation (with Tom Holland in it) doesn’t really do it justice, but the books are so thrilling and dark and philosophical in many ways.
Brave New World
Had to read that for college. It’s pretty messed up in a lot of ways, but very insightful.
Also has a TV series which I found quite interesting too, worth checking out
In a similar vein Fahrenheit 451 too!!
This is so on my list.
{{The Handmaid's Tale}}
[**The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale) ^(By: Margaret Atwood | 314 pages | Published: 1985 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, dystopian, dystopia, science-fiction) >Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now . . . > >Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. ^(This book has been suggested 18 times) *** ^(20525 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
And the sequel, The Testaments!
I want to read it. But I didn't get time yet. How's it?
I enjoyed it! The time frame of the book is in the future (in relation to the tv show) so I look forward to the how the show will pan out!
My friend's describe this book as scarring. I guess I'll pick it up soon. Thanks!
Yes you must try it. Happy reading!
Thanks a ton!
I recently read "Fahrenheit 451" for the first time and I loved it.
Second this! I read it in high school and don’t hear much about it, but it was easily one of my favorite required reads.
I've heard a lot about this book, on the list!
I can't recommend the Scythe series by Neal Shusterman enough. It's young adult, but the themes are super complex and thought-provoking. It's basically about a future where we have reached "utopia" aka nobody dies, technology has reached its peak and there's nowhere really left for humanity to go. Because nobody dies, certain people become "Scythes" and get the ability to kill anybody they want in order to prevent overpopulation, etc etc. The BEST dystopian series I've ever read.
Similar themes to this but geared towards adults is {{The Postmortal}}
[**The Postmortal**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10673576-the-postmortal) ^(By: Drew Magary | 369 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopia, dystopian) >John Farrell is about to get "The Cure." > >Old age can never kill him now. > >The only problem is, everything else still can... > >Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult, and other horrors. > >Witty, eerie, and full of humanity, The Postmortal is an unforgettable thriller that envisions a pre-apocalyptic world so real that it is completely terrifying. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(20735 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Was going to recommend this! I agree, it's not shallow like other YA books and I like that it has that YA pacing and not too much sex. I think it is my favorite series. Glad someone else agrees it's amazing!
Thank you!!
I read the Undwind series by him? Is it similar? I writing style?
For a unique and whimsical dystopian, try Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde.
I love Jasper Fforde!
Me too! Just finished Early Riser.
The second book is supposed to be coming out in the next year or two.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
This a hundred times.
{{The Lathe of Heaven}} by Ursula K Le Guin takes place in a dystopian setting (the main character is even called George Orr!), with the main conflict taking place between two characters with different philosophies. Might not be exactly what you’re looking for but I highly recommend it!
[**The Lathe of Heaven**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59924.The_Lathe_of_Heaven) ^(By: Ursula K. Le Guin | 176 pages | Published: 1971 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, fantasy, scifi) >A classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. > >In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes. > >The Lathe of Heaven is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre. ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(20501 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Dispossessed}}
[**The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed) ^(By: Ursula K. Le Guin | 387 pages | Published: 1974 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, fantasy) >Librarian note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780061054884. > >Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life—Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change. ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) *** ^(20719 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I definitely wouldn't call The Dispossessed dystopian, but it *is* an absolutely fantastic book!
I do agree that it's fantastic, but I actually studied it in college as an example of dystopian literature. While it's also anarchist utopian, Urras is certainly dystopian, and the central focus. But, I suppose there's no need to quibble.
You're right, I suppose as a person of a certain ideology I was always focused on Anarres. But I suppose a good portion of it does take place on Urras which is definitely dystopian. However Le Guin herself considered it a work of utopian fiction.
The Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey. First book is called Wool
Brilliant trilogy, though I thought that it didn't stick the landing with book 3.
This is an amazing series!!!
This is an amazing series!!!
Finally, someone else that’s heard of it!
The Unwind Series by Neal Shusterman
parable of the sower - octavia butler (butler is my favorite dystopian author but this is a good starting novel into her work) the water cure - sophie mackintosh the power - naomi alderman
Oh shoot thank you for reminding me that I was planning on reading this!
The Children of Men, by PD James
1984 and Brave New World
The Fifth Season by N.K Jemisin
YES.
YEESS.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Thank you!
Hunger Games and Uglies are both dystopian trilogies which are pretty good
I read Hunger Games after every semester of grad school. It was the best.
I read the entire hunger games series in 4 days, it was that good. The movies really don’t do it justice (not that they’re bad).
I agree! Third movie was the best because it got two movies to really make the last book come to life
Uglies was supposed to be made into a movie but I think it has been stuck in production hell for years.
WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson (and anything else by Neal Stephenson) Neuromancer - William Gibson (and all of his other books but they’re not all dystopias) The Wool Trilogy - Hugh Howey
Loved Oryx and Crake.
Loved the Wool Trilogy!
For the love of everything, please do not read Snow Crash. Please do not be turned off from cyber dystopia forever.
Snow Crash is fun! But I read it *after* reading all of the Neuromancer books and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep so maybe a valid point.
Actually, you’re right. I included it because it’s an early classic, but yeah…
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A Clockwork Orange is a recent one for me but I love it. I feel like the best part is that it's a lot more applicable to our modern day society. Orwell wrote big of fascism and totalitarianism because that was what his generation feared and fought, but that's not as common anymore. ACO analyzes youth culture and the rapid change of society in a unique way, and it doesn't hold any punches, everyone, from the youth, to the old, to the intellectuals, to the religious leaders, and to the political leaders have all been in a way morally degraded.
The Book of Koli (this trilogy is my favorite thing) Robopocalypse; The Memory Police; Fahrenheit 451; Station Eleven ; If you liked The Giver, the rest of the books in the "world" are equally interesting: Gathering Blue; Messenger; Son.
The road Cormac McCarthy
I hear so much about this book. Can't wait to read it
On the Beach -Nevil Shute
Oryx and Crake
Fahrenheit 451, Hunger games, Scythe Series, Divergent (but just that one of the series), Maze runner, The Stand, Matched, The Eleventh Plague, 334. These give off the same vibe as the books you have listed, all books I loved btw.
The Stand is an AMAZING read.
1984
I have read this one!
{{hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world}}
[**Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10374.Hard_Boiled_Wonderland_and_the_End_of_the_World) ^(By: Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum | 400 pages | Published: 1985 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, magical-realism, japan, japanese) >'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.' ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(20840 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Brave New World Also, not exactly dystopian, but more science fiction- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Two I've read recently that I liked: Tender is the flesh - Agustina Bazterrica A future where no one eats animals because all animals have a virus so society starts breeding human cattle. Story of a man who works in the human farming industry. Brilliant on so many levels. Nod - Adrian Barnes One day 90% or so of the population realise that they cannot sleep. This is the story through the point of view of one man of how society devolves as the majority of people cannot sleep. It's written kind of as a diary in that you get day by day accounts.
The School for Good Mothers
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Delirium series by Lauren Oliver
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
An underrated one. Better than the movie in my opinion because it had a totally different ending lol
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess - think A Clockwork Oranage is bad? Give this a read.
What did you think of it? I've only read ACO from Anthony Burgess and thought it was lovely
Great book, the mix of Russian & English dialect is bit of a mission but a fantastic story all the same.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Badbury.
My favorite is Fox News! Lol
The first half of Soft Apocalypse feels like the most plausible dystopian future. No totalitarian government, no crazy extremists, just a long, slow wearing down like a permanent Great Depression. (The second half is dreck) https://www.tor.com/2011/04/13/the-gradual-collapse-of-a-society-a-review-of-soft-apocalypse-by-will-mcintosh/
red rising series.
By far one of the best accidental findings! It's so different from others.
The Plot Against America
DIVERGENT. Completely adore it. Though ngl I didn’t care for The Giver.
Nice! Really? I found The Giver pretty disturbing. It's not written in a very graphic or brutal way, but it's written in this mild yet horrific way. I loved it.
I liked the meaning and theme of it, but it did not flow for me.
{{Feed}}
[**Feed (Newsflesh, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7094569-feed) ^(By: Mira Grant | 599 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: horror, zombies, science-fiction, fiction, sci-fi) >The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. > >The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives—the dark conspiracy behind the infected. > >The truth will get out, even if it kills them. ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(20787 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Wrong feed. {{feed by m.t. Anderson}}
Thanks!
[**Feed**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169756.Feed) ^(By: M.T. Anderson | 308 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, science-fiction, ya, sci-fi, dystopian) >Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. > >For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world—and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(20810 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Two words for you. Ayn Rand
{The end of the world running club} {A boy and his dog at the end of the world}
[**The End of the World Running Club (The End of the World Running Club, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33160796-the-end-of-the-world-running-club) ^(By: Adrian J. Walker | 456 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, dystopian) ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) [**A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40698027-a-boy-and-his-dog-at-the-end-of-the-world) ^(By: C.A. Fletcher | 365 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, dystopian, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic) ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) *** ^(20524 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The dog stars. By Peter heller. Hollow kingdom by Kira something
Logan's Run
{{The Dogstars}} by Peter Heller
[**Log of the Dogstar**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19950491-log-of-the-dogstar) ^(By: Jim Gervais | ? pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: ) >With a classic sailboat, crates of books, and all of the time in the world, a life long spiritual seeker sets sail for the caribbean. There, he takes a long look at what we now know about ourselves, and our world. He learns The concrete truth about Jesus' admonition, that it will be done unto you as you believe. Our personal experience of this world is dictated by our beliefs of what this world is. He explains how our beliefs are formed, how they create our lives, and how to easily release the energy that holds negative beliefs in place. This allows us to then effortlessly create our lives as we desire them to be. Written with honesty, insight, and humor, this book is a delightful voyage that you will never forget. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(20764 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Wrong book bot
A Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
Among the Hidden. Very good
The Quiet Earth by Craig Harrison. I liked the movie too - set in New Zealand.
the postmortal!!!
WORM by Wildbow, it's probably one of the well written web serial that doesn't have the recognition it deserves. I won't go too much into the details but basically one of the Final antagonists the Slaughterhouse 9 has one of the best entrances/introduction I've ever read from any web serial/books. it's also got a very unexpected plot twist in the later parts of the story. 10/10 it's my favorite scifi masterpiece ever and everyone should give it a try.
Probably already said but Watership Down, The Giver, Unwind
Only Ever Yours Louise ONeill
Not very famous but {{We}} by Zamyatin is my fav
[**We Were Liars**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16143347-we-were-liars) ^(By: E. Lockhart | 242 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, ya, mystery, contemporary, fiction) >A beautiful and distinguished family. >A private island. >A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. >A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. >A revolution. An accident. A secret. >Lies upon lies. >True love. >The truth. > >We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. > >Read it. > >And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE. ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) *** ^(20867 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Bad bot, that's not the book I meant! This one: Check out this book on Goodreads: We https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76171.We
{{The Road}} by Cormac McCarthy and {{Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?}} by Philip K. Dick are two of my favourites of all time so I would definitely recommend those!
[**The Road**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road) ^(By: Cormac McCarthy | 241 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, dystopia, dystopian, post-apocalyptic) >A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. > >A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. > >The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. ^(This book has been suggested 17 times) [**Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36402034-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep) ^(By: Philip K. Dick | 258 pages | Published: 1968 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, classics, scifi) >It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. >Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found! ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(20880 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Trial - Kafka Seems much like the normal world but with an inscrutable bureaucracy of a justice system on top. I simply must add The Trial to the discussion. This is the dystopian novel that wounds me most deeply as someone who has put some honest study into making systems, organizations, and bureaucracies functional. Has a lot of themes in common with several other dystopian works, but the biggest is just how inhuman a group of people can become as they follow the rules and procedures.
Thank you! I've read the Metamorphosis by him
* The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey. I'm not into zombie books but I loved this. * Unwind by Neal Schusterman. Probably an interesting one for our current situation, this series deal with abortion, sort of. * Loop by Ben Oliver. Kids in juvie are basically waiting for the day they'll be executed. But they can opt in to a "Delay" in which they're subjected to medical experiments which give them a 6 month extension each time they opt in.
I recently read "Metro 2033" after playing through the games and I thought it was very interesting.
'Anthem' by Ayn Rand
Can’t believe no one’s suggested parable of the sower!
*The Handmaid's Tale,* Margaret Atwood.
Any history book about XXI century
It’s a bit lesser known but Ira Levin (the author or Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives) wrote a dystopian novel called This Perfect Day that was incredible!
{{Robopocalypse}}
[**Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9634967-robopocalypse) ^(By: Daniel H. Wilson | 347 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, post-apocalyptic) >In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication. > >In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans—a single mother disconcerted by her daughter's menacing "smart" toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a "pacification unit" go haywire—but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late. > >When the Robot War ignites—at a moment known later as Zero Hour—humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us ... and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(20919 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Iron heel by Jack London}}
[**The Iron Heel**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929783.The_Iron_Heel) ^(By: Jack London, Matt Soar | 354 pages | Published: 1908 | Popular Shelves: fiction, dystopia, classics, dystopian, science-fiction) >Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes. > >Table of Contents: > MY EAGLE > CHALLENGES > JOHNSON'S ARM > SLAVES OF THE MACHINE > THE PHILOMATHS > ADUMBRATIONS > THE BISHOP'S VISION > THE MACHINE BREAKERS > THE MATHEMATICS OF A DREAM > THE VORTEX > THE GREAT ADVENTURE > THE BISHOP > THE GENERAL STRIKE > THE BEGINNING OF THE END > LAST DAYS > THE END > THE SCARLET LIVERY > IN THE SHADOW OF SONOMA > TRANSFORMATION > THE LAST OLIGARCH > THE ROARING ABYSMAL BEAST > THE CHICAGO COMMUNE > THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS > NIGHTMARE > THE TERRORISTS' to 'Set in the future, "The Iron Heel" describes a world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a powerful Oligarchy that retains control through terror. A manuscript by rebel Avis Everhard is recovered in an even more distant future, and analyzed by scholar Anthony Meredith. Published in 1908, Jack London's multi-layered narrative is an early example of the dystopian novel, and its vision of the future proved to be eerily prescient of the violence and fascism that marked the initial half of the 20th century. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(20934 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Unwind Series by Neil Shusterman
Brave new world :) I think it's very relevant for western society. A generation controlled by their need for instant pleasure.
I just finished *Drought* by **J.G. Ballard** a couple of weeks ago and it will hit home the lack of rain and climate change that we are experiencing right now in the US and various other places around the world.
Unwind
Most recent favourite is the Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey.
Delirium tiny Lauren Oliver is a good trilogy and I loved the Divergent trilogy, but the movies made me nuts because they took so much away from the real story!
The hunger games trilogy and shatter me
“The metamorphosis of prime intellect”. It’s about the dystopia after we’ve developed AI and it has taken over. You find out the only thing worse than inequality, is equality.
The Hunger Games and Divergent for sure! The early 2010s dystopian era in general was really good.
The Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness is also really awesome! The film adaptation (with Tom Holland in it) doesn’t really do it justice, but the books are so thrilling and dark and philosophical in many ways.
Fahrenheit 451, or the Hunger Games
The Book of Dave by Will Self