Dystopian Books - need more!

[Anonymous]

Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien -- recently made into a movie.
Teenage girl survives on her family farm after a nuclear holocaust and thinks she's the only person left alive -- but then she sees a campfire.

Patrick Ness's trilogy -- pretty hard going but worth it -- The Knife of Never Letting Go; The Ask and the Answer; Monsters and Men.
Set in a world of men (no boys, no girls/women), all of whom who can hear one another's thoughts -- the last teenage boy runs away from his town and runs into a strange creature -- a girl.

Life As We Knew It (four books in the series, I think) - Susan Beth Pfeffer.
Teenage girl survives with her family when the moon is knocked closer to earth and the earth grows colder and colder

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline -- a really fun book set in a dystopian future, about a teenage boy who loves 80's pop culture, especially John Hughes movies, and gets the chance to play an immersive video game set in the movies for a grand prize.

City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Very moving feminist novel. Ambiguous ending.

The Children of Men by PD James -- also a great movie.

The Passage by Justin Cronin-- couldn't put this down, very thrilling.

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress.

The Company Novels by Kage Baker -- these are wonderful fun, time travel from a dystopian (vegan) future back and forth to the present and far, far past (think dinosaurs).

Those should keep you busy!

[Anonymous]

Check out this list on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature

[Anonymous]

The Ashfall series -- NOR had a thing on it.

[Anonymous]

Seveneves

[Anonymous]

Also search for "speculative fiction" to give you more titles.

[Anonymous]

Never let me go

[Anonymous]

The Lunar Chronicles (Cinder/Scarlett/Cress/Winter) Fabulous dystopian story weaving in bits of fairy tales along the way.

[Anonymous]

I'm not normally a fan of the genre, but I loved Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker, where the Earth's rotation gets slower and slower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a beautifully written, punch-to-the-gut novel, really the best of the genre, but I'm guessing you already read this one. If not, do so immediately!

OP here, really liked this book. Agree, a must read.

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Anonymous wrote:Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien -- recently made into a movie.
Teenage girl survives on her family farm after a nuclear holocaust and thinks she's the only person left alive -- but then she sees a campfire.

Patrick Ness's trilogy -- pretty hard going but worth it -- The Knife of Never Letting Go; The Ask and the Answer; Monsters and Men.
Set in a world of men (no boys, no girls/women), all of whom who can hear one another's thoughts -- the last teenage boy runs away from his town and runs into a strange creature -- a girl.

Life As We Knew It (four books in the series, I think) - Susan Beth Pfeffer.
Teenage girl survives with her family when the moon is knocked closer to earth and the earth grows colder and colder

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline -- a really fun book set in a dystopian future, about a teenage boy who loves 80's pop culture, especially John Hughes movies, and gets the chance to play an immersive video game set in the movies for a grand prize.

City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Very moving feminist novel. Ambiguous ending.

The Children of Men by PD James -- also a great movie.

The Passage by Justin Cronin-- couldn't put this down, very thrilling.

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress.

The Company Novels by Kage Baker -- these are wonderful fun, time travel from a dystopian (vegan) future back and forth to the present and far, far past (think dinosaurs).

Those should keep you busy!

I think you are my reading twin...I've read 50% on this list and loved them. So, will go and order the other 1/2. Thanks!

And thanks to all! I'm having a medical procedure done and will be out of commission for a bit. Plus side...lots of time to read!!

[Anonymous]

"The Handmaid's Tale" - both book and film

[Anonymous]

anything by Vonnegut

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Oryx & Crake!

[Anonymous]

Wool. SO SO depressing.

I liked The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.

[Anonymous]

Hugh Howey - Silo trilogy
Justin Cronin - The Passage
Peter Watts - The Rifters trilogy
Mira Grant - Newsflesh trilogy
Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
Margaret Atwood - MaddAddam trilogy and The Handmaid's Tale
Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl (and a bunch more)