Anonymous
01/06/2016 10:56
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
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)
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)
Anonymous
01/05/2016 20:19
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
Wool. SO SO depressing.
I liked The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.
I liked The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.
Anonymous
01/02/2016 07:35
Subject: Re:Dystopian Books - need more!
Another vote for Oryx & Crake!
Anonymous
01/02/2016 05:35
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
anything by Vonnegut
Anonymous
01/02/2016 02:59
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
"The Handmaid's Tale" - both book and film
Anonymous
01/02/2016 02:54
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
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
01/02/2016 02:51
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
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.
Anonymous
01/01/2016 23:38
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
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
01/01/2016 23:32
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
The Lunar Chronicles (Cinder/Scarlett/Cress/Winter) Fabulous dystopian story weaving in bits of fairy tales along the way.
Anonymous
01/01/2016 21:16
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
Never let me go
Anonymous
01/01/2016 21:15
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
Also search for "speculative fiction" to give you more titles.
Anonymous
01/01/2016 21:12
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
Seveneves
Anonymous
01/01/2016 21:10
Subject: Re:Dystopian Books - need more!
The Ashfall series -- NOR had a thing on it.
Anonymous
01/01/2016 15:32
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
Anonymous
01/01/2016 15:31
Subject: Dystopian Books - need more!
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!
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!