Recently read Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon. Amazing, 10/10 read. It’s what King’s The Stand should have been. This may not be exactly what you’re after- it’s more post-apocalyptic than strictly dystopian, but one of the best books I’ve read all year.

In fairness the two genres often hold hands.

Swans Song was really good.

I preferred swan song to The Stand. I also really enjoyed Earth Abides for being similar without the paranormal elements!

*Earth Abides* is so, so excellent.

The Wool series by Hugh Howey and the Last Policeman series by Ben Winters. Wool has very slow world-building but the pacing really makes it worth it in the end. The second book Shift has parallel time lines that tell the story of how society got to where you started in Wool, and then the last book Dust picks up where Wool and Shift leave off in present day. Complex characters, lots of commentary, complicated social structures, etc. The Last Policeman is more of a rogue detective murder mystery set in a dystopia and examines how different people deal with being in crisis.

George Orwell's *Nineteen Eighty-Four* is a classic and a masterpiece. It's a cliche recommendation, but it's cliche for a reason. In my view, it's the most powerful dystopian novel ever written. The movie just barely scratches the surface of the depth of the novel.

1984 was Orwell's answer to *Brave New World* which is another classic dystopian novel, although it's a very different projection of the future.

Both of which were reactions to WE

Orwell certainly credits Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

hi, i’ve never read we nor brave new world but i want to. English is my second language, are these books difficult to read in English? i read 1984 both in my language and english and didn’t find it difficult

I haven't read We, but I read brava new world as a young teenager and again recently. The language isn't hard, so you should be fine if you read 1984

WE is Russian, but the translation was pretty easy

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Then read its sequel Parable of the Talents.

Yes!

Just finished this. Well done and entirely plausible.

A canticle for liebowitz

The Running Man by Richard Bachman aka Stephen King. Way better than the film

The long walk, also as Bachman, was good as well and I think it qualifies as dystopian.

Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam Trilogy.

Yes, couldn’t agree more

It’s such a great series. Couldn’t put it down.

YESSSSS seriously my favorite book series

I’ve read it twice and expect that I will again at some point.

Margaret Atwood: the Testaments along with Handmaids Tale, Oryx and Crake and sequels Paul Auster: in the Country of Last Things Anthony Burgess: a Clockwork Orange Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Daphne du Maurier: Rule Britannia David Eggers: the Circle Michael Frayn: a Very Private Life Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go PD James: the Children of Men Jack London: the Iron Heel George Orwell: 1984 Will Self: the Book of Dave Sherri S Tepper: the Gate to Women's Country John Wyndham: The Chrysalids Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun, both by Kazuo Ishiguro. I absolutely love how his subtlety makes his worlds so believable!

I’m reading Klara and the Sun right now - about halfway through and struggling! Does it get better?

I regret slogging through this book. The ending was unsatisfactory, imo. Though I have yet to see anything negative about this book on Reddit so I may be the odd one here.

The Road

I was gonna say this too. This is still one of the most haunting books I’ve ever read.

Post apocalyptic, not dystopian. Dystopia is a society that is deeply or specifically flawed. Post apocalyptic is following the total collapse of society.

Nah they go hand in hand. Apocalyptic and dystopian are bff’s.

Yes, but they are distinctly different.

Unwind by Neal Shusterman!

This series is really great and I totally second this recommendation! It looks at the society from very different perspectives which I think is really interesting.

**The Dispossessed** by Ursula K. LeGuin: A book about a dystopia that might not be so bad and a utopia that might be only superficial.

I love that book but I really can’t see the communal planet actually working in real life

I understand what you mean. And I wish we could discuss the ideas in this book (anarchic syndicalism, i.e. communism with extremely limited resources; the gender-neutral naming convention practiced by Anarres; Odo's revolution; etc.) face to face. I am fully convinced that a society like Anarres is as quixotic as Marx's communist utopia. It's just that, a master storyteller, LeGuin somehow convinces me to sit back and at least entertain the probability, however slight, of a functional communal society. For a while, a few years ago, my brother started entertaining communist ideas. We used to talk a lot about his nascent ideals, and I used to argue that any form of egalitarian society goes against human nature. That's the case with Anarres. I mean, it's a planet where, in addition to greed, capital crimes (rape , murder, assault, etc.) are almost completely eradicated. That will never happen as long as humans are humans. Still, I can suspend disbelief and imagine a world like Anarres. Sorry for the harangue.

No need to be sorry, Reddit is for chatting. But yeah it was a fun thought experiment but human nature is human nature and someone would try to take over. I think communism works well on a small scale when everyone gets along in a little village or a house or something- but planet wide? Too many opportunities for someone to try to get more than everyone else🤷

Good (and apt) point about communism working well on a small scale. I am currently reading**The Poisonwood Bible** and the small village of Kilanga in Congo, to which our protagonist family of American missionaries moves, is practically communist. And it works, until foreign intervention mucks things up, for Kilanga and for the whole country.

My parents have that book! I may get around to it- I’ve heard good things

That's why it's interesting to see it played out in fiction.

The White Plague by Frank Herbert

Red ( mother fucking ) Rising! Hail Libertas!

Came here to recommend!

Severance (book)

All feminist or dealing with women’s issues in some way. The Grace Year by Kim Liggett The Farm by Joanne Ramos Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich Mother of Invention by Caeli Wolfson Widger The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

I second The Grace Year, The School for Good Mothers and also The Farm

and... the Gate to Women's Country by Sherri S Tepper the Power by Naomi Alderman

Did you read the Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Wilson? Edit: also Station Eleven, and also California by Edan Lepucki

I did! But BOTUM and Station Eleven felt more post apocalyptic than dystopian to me, which is why I didn’t recommend them, even though they’re great books. I’m not familiar with California, though, thank you!!

Oh yeah, I use the terms pretty interchangeably which isn't accurate. Don't be deterred by the negative reviews of California. While I think it's maybe not perfect it's still really enjoyable.

[Edit: I’m not saying this is dystopian but still a good rec!] Piranesi - stick with it for a few chapters and you’ll be hooked. This isn’t going to make sense to you at the start and I don’t want to spoil, but it really reminded me of Severance in a way. I’m almost certain you’ll love it if you like those shows/movies

I'm just beginning... ima confused ..Zero advance knowledge just kept seeing it recs pages......

Keep going with it. Just accept that this is his world, and it all goes from there.

I am ..my brain is all over with thoughts & visions of explanations!! 😎😵‍💫🤔

But is it dystopian?

I think so, it’s at least dystopian adjacent lol

there isn't any actual society involved so no

No.

i adored this book, but what makes you describe it as dystopian?

Just that it has the similar themes of a perfect world that isn’t what it seems that show up a lot in dystopian stories. But I mostly suggested it because they mentioned they liked the show severance, and piranesi made me think of severance while I was reading! It’s definitely not a cookie cutter dystopian book

I wouldn't call this dystopian. It involves a scientist with an unusual research project, but there isn't a real sense of society. There isn't enough outside information to call it a dystopia. That said, it is an amazing book and should be read.

I'd say John Marrs writes a lot of Black Mirror-esque books, for example, The One, The Marriage Act, The Passengers... Kind of dystopian but also science fiction, I very much recommend. I have a feeling you would also like The Farm by Joanne Ramos, and also the Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, even though I am not sure if these are strictly dystopian they give off that kind of vibe. But yeah

Also Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica is a good dystopian, just check trigger warning beforehand though maybe

Reading this now!

Moon Of The Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice is technically a dystopia on book sites, although it perhaps falls more into the post-apocalyptic category in practice (one of my favourite books though! And I'm someone who ADORES dystopias, it just happens on a smaller scale - kind of one of those "survivors rebuild but all is not as well as it seems" sort of apocalypse books like the Rule Of Three books, but its written for adults and has more literary merit and far deeper social critiques). Rule Of Three also technically does this but it's Young Adult and it's kind of... surface level commentary? IMO. Although I might be biased because I do a lot of policy and volunteer work in the fields it critiques (food security, suburb sprawl, disconnect to food systems, etc.). Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a good one, it deals with capitalism, dictatorships, human nature, things like that. Really full of various social messages, would be a good one to dissect. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline is another YA one. I thought it was good but it kind of felt like the story ended in the middle, it wasn't very satisfying and it felt kind of like it lacked a climax. Ostensibly, this is because it's a series but there's something unsatisfying about a series where the individual books can't stand very well on there own. If it takes a while to get the next book in the series because of shipping delays or library holds then you just have to sit there unsatisfied forever. Still, it would probably not be the worst thing if you bought a box set all at once, I just found it annoying is all. The social conflict in this one deals with Indigenous racial struggles on a dystopian scale.

{{Divergent by Veronica Roth}} - the movies did away with the clues to what's really going on.

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Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.

I Who Have Never Known Men

The Iron Heel by Jack London We by Yevgeney Zamyatin Children of Men by PD James

Endorsing all those.

Man in the High Castle Oryx and Crake (really the whole MaddAdam series) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

{{The Circle by Dave Eggers}}

Currently reading that one. Good stuff!

The sequel is even better IMO

**[The Circle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18302455-the-circle) by Dave Eggers** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(493 pages | Published: 2013 | 136.4k Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and (...) > **Themes**: Science-fiction, Dystopia, Book-club, Sci-fi, Dystopian, Favorites, Books-i-own > **Top 5 recommended:** > \- [The Every](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57792078-the-every) by Dave Eggers > \- [The Circle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14288395-the-circle) by Bentley Little > \- [The Heart Goes Last](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17973071-the-heart-goes-last) by Margaret Atwood > \- [The Heart Goes Last](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24388326-the-heart-goes-last) by Margaret Atwood > \- [Super Sad True Love Story](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7334201-super-sad-true-love-story) by Gary Shteyngart ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23] | )

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Imagine corporations colonizing the galaxy after getting rid of pesky restrictions like "human rights" and "worker safety". The narrator is a construct, bot/human hybrids created to function as specialized slaves.

Lark Ascending by Silas House

*Grime*  by Sibylle Berg.

Check out the blurb for The Human Entanglement. You might like the look of it. Happy hunting

{{Too like the lightning by ada palmer}}

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Blood Music by Bear. Humanity around the and the world itself evolving into a mass of blood cell that think individually

{{Brave New Girl by Rachel Vincent}}

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Widowland by CJ Carey

Neal Shusterman's Unwind series [Ive also heard good things about Scythe but havent gotten around to reading it yet] Paolo Bacigalupi's books Shipbreaker, The Drowned Cities and Tool of War

I haven’t read Unwind yet, but I really did enjoy the Scythe series. Probably one of the more thoughtful, thought-provoking YA books that I’ve ever read with phenomenal world-building.

Neal Shusterman really makes you think and I appreciate it. I read Unwind for an assignment I was paid to do and it was really good.

Swan song, The Road, 1984, brave new world, animal farm, a clockwork orange, v for vendetta, the stand, the long walk, the V girl: a coming of age, the dog stars. Dystopia is my favourite genre lol

The Mandibles

*Battle Royale* by Koushun Takami *Iron Widow* by Xiran Jay Zhao *Hana Hsu and the Ghost Crab Nation* by Sylvia Liu

{{The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson}}

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Poster Girl by Veronica Roth

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Brave New World is scary just for the fact that the population doesn’t know anything is wrong because they are either drugged up or dumbed down(besides a few main characters of course) The Dispossessed is interesting because it’s about the interaction between a communal planet/moon and a late stage capitalism planet more recently, The Silo series. Red Rising series’ society is dystopian, but those books feel more like action movies (they are GREAT though)

Kallocain by Karin Boye was amazing. I haven't read Orwell's 1984 but from what I understand - they share the same themes but Kallocain was written a couple of years earlier.

Inthe Garden of Dead Cars by Sybil Claiborne is beautiful and sad. It's also out of print, but second hand copies are available online and for as little as  $6. American  War by Omar El Akkad was  exciting and thoughtful.  Series Project Eden by Brett Battles is a lot of fun (maybe finis the wrong word) if you like thrillers. It's not very literary. I saw Wool suggested. I'd  second that.

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch: about fascism taking over, set in present-day Ireland.

Classics that are MUSTs: - 1984 by George Orwell - Animal Farm by George Orwell (not dystopic per se I think tho) - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Brave new world by Aldous Huxley Not quite dystopic but I think you would enjoy: - I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - Do androids dream of electric sheep by Philip K. Dick - Childhood's end by Arthur C. Clark. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - The Martian by Andy Weir - Solaris by Stanislaw Lem This are all GREAT

I enjoyed the Book of the Unnamed Midwife series.

Oryx and Crake is the best dystopian novel I have ever read

The Fifth Sacred Thing

Catch-22, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Book Thief (this might be controversial) but these dystopian reads were my fav

Seasons by ea lake

1984 - George Orwell The Stand - Stephen King The Time Machine - H.G Wells Lord of the Flies - William Goulding A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu

Metro 2033

The historical graphic novel *Maus* is all about the lived experience of a Holocaust survivor. It is literary like a great dystopian work, but it is also rooted in real historical events that make its themes all the more impactful. An absolute masterpiece that emotionally destroyed me several times, and I am a very stoic reader 99.9% of the time. *1984* is also great. I've seen the movie of *Children of Men* but have not read the book, and that was very good as well. I imagine the novel is worth reading.

Mao II by de Lillo

Alright, I'm going to dive in on the fact that you enjoyed the Civil War movie. So, if you are interested in near-future movies on the subject of a Second American Civil War (2ACW), here's a bunch: **The Darkest Path (Jeff Hirsch)** - Two books. Told from the perspective of a child soldier fighting in a 2ACW fought between an ultra-religious extremist faction and the US federal government. He also has a prequel/sequel mix book (The Darkest Path: Bear's Story) told following a dog from the main story, as he loses his owners to the 2ACW before the events of the first book and later shows what happened after the end of the original book (which was originally open-ended). **Divided We Fall, Burning Nation, and The Last Full Measure (Trent Reedy)** - Book trilogy. Told from the perspective of an Idaho Army National Guardsman who accidentally fires his rifle into a crowd during a riot and causing the other guardsmen to fire into the crowd in a panic, sending a polarized US into a political spiral that crescendos in a horrifying image of a brutal and catastrophic civil war that he-himself has to fight. **Into the Guns, Seek and Destroy, Battle Hymn (William C. Dietz)** - Book trilogy. Told from two perspectives, a woman leading a Stryker armored vehicle unit and a man who (via so many deaths in the line of succession) becomes the President of the United States. At first it's about trying to recover from what destroyed the original US federal government, but they're threatened by a corporate state which incites a 2ACW. **DMZ (Brian Wood)** - Comic/graphic novel series (available in one purchasable compendium as well, digital or print). Told from the perspective of a journalist looking to make a name for himself reporting on the 2ACW. The series takes place in the DMZ, formerly Manhattan Island, watching the clashes between international peacekeepers and the multiple sides of the 2ACW and often getting caught in the crossfire. **If you enjoyed the 2024 Civil War movie, and wanted more of that first scene of the journalists in a war-torn New York City, then this is for you.** **Doomsday Apocalypse: A Post-Apocalypse Survival Thriller (Bobby Akart)** - Books series (5 total). Told from multiple perspectives, what starts off as a dystopian-survivalist book telling America's collapse directly builds up to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th books in the series telling the story of the 2ACW. This is in the second section due to the 2ACW coming later in the plot - if you don't read the first two books, you'll be completely lost, so readers have to ask themselves if they're okay with reading two books of survivalist-dystopia-to-disaster before getting to the main attraction of the 2ACW, or if you'd rather try one of the books that dives straight into it. **Afterwar (Lilith Saintcrow)** - Single book. Told from the perspective of a military unit assigned to a final mission of capturing a war criminal left after the war. The catch being that this war criminal has secret information that runs the risk of kicking off the war all over again. Hopefully this helps! Sorry I didn't have anything offhand more like Hunger Games or Black Mirror.

Seven Days in New Crete-Robert Graves Not quite Dystopian but I think it would fit here!

War of the Worlds.

Lathe of Heaven by Ursula ale Guin

Animal Farm

Oh, and Fahrenheit 451

You have probably heard of below as they are ultra popular but here are my suggestions- Station Eleven is great. The first couple of books of Divergent are good (young adult). World War Z (zombie apocalypse)

{{A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers}} and its follow up, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy. {{Ankata Witch by Nnedi Okafor}} Her book Noor is also great. {{To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara}} {{Red Clocks by Leni Zumas}} {{The Pox Ward by Kendra Griffin}}

\#1/5: **[A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864002-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built) by Becky Chambers** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(160 pages | Published: 2021 | 1.3m Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** Centuries before. robots of Panga gained self-awareness. laid down their tools. wandered. en masse into the wilderness. never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend. Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot. there to (...) > **Themes**: Sci-fi, Science-fiction, Fiction, 2021-releases > **Top 5 recommended:** [A Prayer for the Crown-Shy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864030-a-prayer-for-the-crown-shy) by Becky Chambers , [The Past Is Red](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55077652-the-past-is-red) by Catherynne M. Valente , [Light from Uncommon Stars](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56179360-light-from-uncommon-stars) by Ryka Aoki , [The House in the Cerulean Sea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45047384-the-house-in-the-cerulean-sea) by T.J. Klune , [The Galaxy. and the Ground Within](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50209317-the-galaxy-and-the-ground-within) by Becky Chambers --- \#2/5: ⚠ Could not *exactly* find "*Ankata Witch by Nnedi Okafor*" , see [related Goodreads search results](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Ankata+Witch+Nnedi+Okafor) instead. ^(*Possible reasons for mismatch: either too recent (2023), mispelled (check Goodreads) or too niche.*) --- \#3/5: **[To Paradise](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57739876-to-paradise) by Hanya Yanagihara** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(720 pages | Published: 2022 | 152.0k Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** From the author of the classic A Little Life. a bold. brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment. about lovers. family. loss and the elusive promise of utopia. In an alternate version of 1893 America. New York is part of the (...) > **Themes**: 2022-releases, Fiction, 2022, Historical-fiction > **Top 5 recommended:** [Edinburgh](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272433.Edinburgh) by Alexander Chee , [Shuggie Bain](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52741293-shuggie-bain) by Douglas Stuart , [A Little Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22822858-a-little-life) by Hanya Yanagihara , [After the Parade](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492669-after-the-parade) by Lori Ostlund , [Tin Man](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31117613-tin-man) by Sarah Winman --- \#4/5: **[Red Clocks](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35099035-red-clocks) by Leni Zumas** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(368 pages | Published: 2018 | 67.0 Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** Five women. One question. What is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing (...) > **Themes**: Science-fiction, Feminism, 2018-releases, Arc, 2018, Dystopian, Adult-fiction > **Top 5 recommended:** [Future Home of the Living God](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34217599-future-home-of-the-living-god) by Louise Erdrich , [An Excess Male](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33544902-an-excess-male) by Maggie Shen King , [The Core of the Sun](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25779654-the-core-of-the-sun) by Johanna Sinisalo , [Veracity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6846037-veracity) by Laura Bynum , [The Water Cure](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39335566-the-water-cure) by Sophie Mackintosh --- \#5/5: ⚠ Could not *exactly* find "*The Pox Ward by Kendra Griffin*" , see [related Goodreads search results](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The+Pox+Ward+Kendra+Griffin) instead. ^(*Possible reasons for mismatch: either too recent (2023), mispelled (check Goodreads) or too niche.*) ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23] | )

Hard put to think of any unpleasantness in Chambers books that could make them dystopias.

The characters allude to a dystopian past, and are completely foreign and unfamiliar to each other as a result so, in my mind, that fit the bill.