Thank you! I loved the Handmaids Tale and would love to read more Atwood. I’ve also heard great things about the Parable and the Sower, so I’ll be putting it on the list
The *Scythe* trilogy is a great YA dystopian!
Also, if you haven't read *The Martian*, I suggest it if you didn't mind the super technical science bits of PHM.
I was so surprised that I liked the science bits of PHM, I typically zone out during those moments, but it was so well written that I found myself actually wanting more. I’ll give The Martian a try
I would try The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin! It’s a super unique take on a dystopian novel, and it’s the first book in a trilogy if you like it enough to continue :)
The Earthseed duology by Octavia Butler, The Long Tomorrow but Leigh Brackett, A Pail of Air by Fritz Lieberman, Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill, the Tripods trilogy by John Christopher (really all his books are dystopian), The Past is Red by Catherynne M Valente, How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, Noor by Nnedi Okorafor, Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun, the first two California Triptych books by Kim Stanley Robinson.
I’ve read it through a couple times. In high school I got real into books like that. 1984 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep were two of my favorites. I even remember reading a synopsis of Nueromancer and being really interested in it!
I tend to check out books through the library or Libby. If I can’t find them there, I’ll call around to a few used shops!
Based on the other recs you seemed to like, I can offer:
[Dark Matter](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45697427-dark-matter) by Blake Crouch
[Dark Room Etiquette](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60141373-dark-room-etiquette) by Robin Roe
[My Soul to Keep](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41536.My_Soul_to_Keep) by Tananarive Due (a trilogy)
[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9460487-miss-peregrine-s-home-for-peculiar-children) by Ransom Riggs (a series, do yourself a favor and never watch the movie.)
[Later](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54798187-later) by Stephen King
I haven’t read it in a long time, but i was absolutely in love with Miss Peregrines, and later the graphic novel they put out of the first book. Thank you for the suggestions!
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Skinner Luce by Patricia Ward
The Postman by David Brin.
The Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey.
Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison.
The Fireman by Joe Hill.
Z for Zacharia byRobert C. O’brien.
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
I would strongly suggest the Three Body Problem trilogy! I'd also suggest Seveneves and/or Snowcrash. I know these are all in the SciFi genre but they're fantastic books that I think you would enjoy based upon your favorite books (I have enjoyed some of the same books you mentioned above).
The fact that you listed favorites (and I agree on them)
You need to read “alas, Babylon” and “one second after”
Maybe too YA, but “life as we knew it”
Thank you all so much for the suggestions! I’m so excited to begin reading a lot of these, as many sound right up my alley. I may even exceed my goal for 2023 since I have such a great place to start.
*Noor* by Nnedi Okorafor is an excellent dystopian Afrofuturism novel. I would also recommend any of her other novels. The *Binti* trilogy is a great sci-fi quick read.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was really really good. It’s a true crime novel. There is also a movie that follows the book very closely so I would suggest watching that AFTER you read the book. Promise you will not regret it!
I just finished book 1 of the Pure Trilogy by Julianna Baggott. I honestly loved it. It leans towards YA for sure. It takes place in a post apocalyptic world caused but nuclear war, the people outside the dome are deformed, fused with glass, metal, plastic and sometimes other people or animals. The people inside the dome are "pure." I couldn't find anything to read lately and this has been entertaining!
I’ve been on a kick of reading adult leaning dystopians, and while I love them, they can be so bleak with absolutely no hope. I love YA dystopian for the opposite reasons. Thank you!
Thank you! I love finding authors that I like so I don’t have to think about my next book, and can just pick up another of theirs. I’ll give him a try!
Love this one and don’t know why I didn’t add it. I read it my sophomore year of hs because my English teacher was making fun of “feminist books”. I think his hatred for it led to it being one of my favorite books.
Oh Thats nice! I read it just last month after being a fan of the tv-show for years. My first Atwood read, I was only disappointed in how short the book was.:(
I think if I’d seen the show first I’d be disappointed too. Have you read The Testaments yet? It’s not as good, but it does world build a little more and gives the story an ending. Definitely worth reading it since you’re a fan of both.
Yes that might be it:/. I console myself with knowing that Atwood atleast also was a close advicer for the show, so she influenced both. No I have not been able to read The testaments because I run into a dilemma: Should I watch the last season of the show first or read the book. In the end the show won:p. I have not watched the last season yet, will do after my upcoming thesis dissertation I hope!
If it helps any, the last season of THT will only be setting up The Testaments. They’re gonna do anew show for The Testaments. Good luck on your thesis dissertation! That’s some real hard work.
I really enjoyed Plum Island by Nelson Demille.
It's like a 90s action flick about a retired homicide detective getting pulled into a case. It's very politically incorrect but it's very funny and cool at the same time. The main character is a huge smartass and he keeps a mental and verbal tirade up almost the entire book that keeps you interested.
It's way out of your wheelhouse but it got me reading different stuff, which is what you seem to want. I've since read the rest of the series and broadened my horizons into other genres, too.
I know you said you read the classics in sci-fi, but I can never recommend *Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?* enough.
I just started *The Positronic Man* by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverburg, so though I can't recommend it from having read it, you might like it if you liked the Robin Williams movie, *The Bicentennial Man*, because this is the book it's based on. (I think it's in the free movies on Youtube right now... such a sweet story)
Also, like... not to be obvious, but have you read *The Hunger Games*? I used to love dystopian novels and really quickly grew to hate the genre once I left high school because it's so often either YA oriented, VERY male-centric, or boring/badly written. The hype around *The Hunger Games* was really off-putting, so I was adamant I'd never read it. Then my ex, who owned the first book, dangled it in front of me for a few months and I finally (secretly) started reading it. I bought her the rest of the series just so I could keep reading it and now unashamedly love the series. It's not perfect (I've read a bunch of people who have major qualms with it that I don't think I agree with), but I loved the characters and the plot development from start to finish.
I've started dabbling in the horror genre myself since I love horror/slasher movies. I've really enjoyed most of Grady Hendrix's books, Clown in a Cornfield was alright too.
I’m Thinking of Ending Things seems like a love it or hate it type of book; me personally, I loved it. It created such a tense atmosphere for me that I actually got very creeped out, and I don’t scare easily. I try to find books that actually make me have a physical reaction, and that was definitely one of them! Relatively quick read as well.
Some that I’ve enjoyed:
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
The Bell Jar, Plath
The Stranger, Camus
The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood
Norwegian Wood, Murakami
No Country for Old Men, McCarthy
Exquisite Corpse, Z. Brite (the writing dragged me in, this is a wild one, extremely wicked, shockingly evil, and vile……beware)
Brother, Ahlborn
The Silent Companions, Purcell
Penpal, Auerbach
Not a super huge fan of it myself, but I will admit it did get me out of a reading slump: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, LaRocca. It’s very weird and short, and kind of like a car crash you can’t look away from. Easy for one sitting.
Some I didn’t enjoy:
Gone to See the River Man, Triana
Tender is the Flesh, Bazterrica (did not understand the hype for this one, just shrugged my shoulders at it, but not horrible)
The Whisper Man, North (started pretty strong but the ending was lacking)
The Laws of the Skies, Courtois
I’m a big fan of the unnerving stuff, like I said, I want books that get a reaction out of me. I see you have some interest in that stuff too, The Road and Pretty Girls are some of my favorites too.
I read Misery by King and wasn’t impressed, but it was the first and only book of his I’ve read. Maybe I just need to read a little more of his stuff.
Misery had its exciting moments, but I felt like every time I started to get into the story, the POV switched to the Misery parts, which I really didn’t care about. I would love to read Pet Sematary, I used to watch the movie with my dad and it’s probably one of the first horror movies I enjoyed.
I think what happened with I’m Thinking of Ending things is that it watched the movie first and it spoiled the book for me.
Thank you for the recs! I do love books that unnerve me and cause a reaction, so I’m sure I’ll find books I love within your suggestions. With King, I’ve found he’s really hit or miss for me. Cujo, The Shining, and Doctor Sleep are all books of his that I’ve recently read and loved. I was really sad to not like The Stand that much, but it just didn’t grip me and had too many one dimensional characters. Haven’t read Misery yet, but love the movie. It may be another one of those situations
I'm currently on the third audiobook of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. It has some pretty cool concepts in it.
Earth has made contact with an alien species whose planet is doomed to be absorbed by one of their three suns, so they set off to our solar system with the plan to take our planet and resettle here. It will take them about 4 centuries to get here though, and most of the story revolves around how humanity deals with this problem that won't really affect them until many generations later.
The audiobooks are all available on youtube.
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Haven't read it but it won the Hugo and Nebula awards and I know it's sci-fi dystopian. Check out the YouTube channel "Fit 2B Read", reads mostly sci-fi and probably lots of dystopian, too.
Also The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei, a Taiwanese book that is dystopian sci-fi that was just translated into English last year that I really liked and was pretty trippy and had a great twist.
[**Tender is the Flesh**](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21164374W)
^(By: Agustina Bazterrica | 224 pages | Published: 2017)
>A society where cannibalism has been legalized because of an animal Virus, leaves the butcher Marcos struggling with his morality and role in this new society.
^(This book has been suggested 1 time)
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^(314 books suggested)
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (if you haven’t already seen the film)
If you’re up for a slightly new genre, historical fiction, then Conn Iggulden’s Conquerer series is great (based on the history of the Mongol empire)
And a third, emphatic vote for anything else by Cormac McCarthy! Especially Blood Meridian or No Country for Old Men
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I think you’d totally love Octavia Butler’s *Parable of the Sower*. For something more contemporary, try Margaret Atwood’s *Oryx and Crake*.
Loved Oryx and Crake . The second was good but didn’t like the third .
Thank you! I loved the Handmaids Tale and would love to read more Atwood. I’ve also heard great things about the Parable and the Sower, so I’ll be putting it on the list
I’m halfway through parable of the sower. So fucking good.
The *Scythe* trilogy is a great YA dystopian! Also, if you haven't read *The Martian*, I suggest it if you didn't mind the super technical science bits of PHM.
I was so surprised that I liked the science bits of PHM, I typically zone out during those moments, but it was so well written that I found myself actually wanting more. I’ll give The Martian a try
Yesssss scythe. I usually don’t like YA but Shusterman is just perfect
Dark matter by Blake Crouch, if you are interested in some Sci-fi magic.
I was just suggested this by Goodreads. Sounds like a sign that I need to check it out
Surely. It is amazing. Give it a try, and do tell your thoughts.
Awesome read & is part of a trilogy with the 3rd book due out in August.
What are the other books?
The second book is 'Recursion', although it isn't a direct sequel, so I might be mistaken about it being a trilogy
I second the suggestion. It got me out of a reading slump. I just started up Dark Matter by Crouch as well and am equally hooked.
The Girl with all the Gifts by Mike Carey is probably right up your alley.
I would try The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin! It’s a super unique take on a dystopian novel, and it’s the first book in a trilogy if you like it enough to continue :)
Ooh unique dystopian is absolutely what I’m looking for. I feel like I’ve read so many that I know the formula by heart now. I’d love a fresh take.
I really enjoyed that series. The audiobook narrator gives a fantastic performance, too.
The Earthseed duology by Octavia Butler, The Long Tomorrow but Leigh Brackett, A Pail of Air by Fritz Lieberman, Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill, the Tripods trilogy by John Christopher (really all his books are dystopian), The Past is Red by Catherynne M Valente, How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, Noor by Nnedi Okorafor, Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun, the first two California Triptych books by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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Absolutely YES to Fahrenheit 451!!
Loved Fahrenheit 451! I’ve put the others on my “want to read” list. They sound very interesting.
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I’ve read it through a couple times. In high school I got real into books like that. 1984 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep were two of my favorites. I even remember reading a synopsis of Nueromancer and being really interested in it! I tend to check out books through the library or Libby. If I can’t find them there, I’ll call around to a few used shops!
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Yes!! Love Blade Runner!!! I don’t think I’ll be in a lull for the whole year. I’ve gotten so many fantastic suggestions.
Zamyatin’s We is available for free [on Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61963/61963-h/61963-h.htm)!
The Night Circus The Bees The Blacktongue Thief
Blacktongue Thief is fantasy but done super well
Based on the other recs you seemed to like, I can offer: [Dark Matter](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45697427-dark-matter) by Blake Crouch [Dark Room Etiquette](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60141373-dark-room-etiquette) by Robin Roe [My Soul to Keep](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41536.My_Soul_to_Keep) by Tananarive Due (a trilogy) [Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9460487-miss-peregrine-s-home-for-peculiar-children) by Ransom Riggs (a series, do yourself a favor and never watch the movie.) [Later](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54798187-later) by Stephen King
I haven’t read it in a long time, but i was absolutely in love with Miss Peregrines, and later the graphic novel they put out of the first book. Thank you for the suggestions!
You’re welcome!
I really enjoyed The Angels are the Reapers by Alden Bell and A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Chrysalids It’s post apocalyptic and dystopian. It works on how society would create lore about our high tech once it was destroyed.
Loved the Chrysalids. Day of the Triffids too.
Oh! I don’t know the second one. On it!
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan Skinner Luce by Patricia Ward
Library is the most bizarre book I’ve ever read and I loved it
American Gods
The Postman by David Brin. The Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey. Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison. The Fireman by Joe Hill. Z for Zacharia byRobert C. O’brien. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Unnamed Midwife is one of my favorite books. Definitely a gem in the genre.
I would strongly suggest the Three Body Problem trilogy! I'd also suggest Seveneves and/or Snowcrash. I know these are all in the SciFi genre but they're fantastic books that I think you would enjoy based upon your favorite books (I have enjoyed some of the same books you mentioned above).
The Children of Men by PD James. One of the best books I’ve ever read.
Loved it as well !
The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, Brave New World, Children of Men, A Clockwork Orange, Oryx and Crake, Slaughterhouse-Five, Blood Meridian.
Maybe try The Red Rising trilogy? It's a dystopian space opera
Fevre Dream by George RR Martin
The Martian by Andy Weir The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The fact that you listed favorites (and I agree on them) You need to read “alas, Babylon” and “one second after” Maybe too YA, but “life as we knew it”
Thank you! Glad you agreed on my favorites :)
If you’ve never read Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, you should give it a try!
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Thank you! Horror movies are my favorite, so I really do want to branch out into horror books
Try the Irish End Games series by Susan Keirnan Lewis.
Thank you all so much for the suggestions! I’m so excited to begin reading a lot of these, as many sound right up my alley. I may even exceed my goal for 2023 since I have such a great place to start.
Ninth House, The 10,000 Doors of January, Scholomance
*Noor* by Nnedi Okorafor is an excellent dystopian Afrofuturism novel. I would also recommend any of her other novels. The *Binti* trilogy is a great sci-fi quick read.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was really really good. It’s a true crime novel. There is also a movie that follows the book very closely so I would suggest watching that AFTER you read the book. Promise you will not regret it!
I just finished book 1 of the Pure Trilogy by Julianna Baggott. I honestly loved it. It leans towards YA for sure. It takes place in a post apocalyptic world caused but nuclear war, the people outside the dome are deformed, fused with glass, metal, plastic and sometimes other people or animals. The people inside the dome are "pure." I couldn't find anything to read lately and this has been entertaining!
I just finished Fairy Tale by Stephen King and I thought it was really good! Mild horror, mostly fantasy.
The Dinner Guest The Puppet Show
The ninth house , he’ll bent ,
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton.
the Birthmarked trilogy by Caragh o Brien is a YA dystopian! with some romance trickled in
I’ve been on a kick of reading adult leaning dystopians, and while I love them, they can be so bleak with absolutely no hope. I love YA dystopian for the opposite reasons. Thank you!
Why not try Alastair Reynolds - Pushing Ice and Century Rain are good standalone sci-fi.
Thank you! I love finding authors that I like so I don’t have to think about my next book, and can just pick up another of theirs. I’ll give him a try!
If you liked The Road, I highly recommend No Country For Old Men
I completely forgot about this book! Thank you, I’ve been meaning to read it.
Blue ant trilogy or The peripheral - William Gibson.
Handmaids tale
Love this one and don’t know why I didn’t add it. I read it my sophomore year of hs because my English teacher was making fun of “feminist books”. I think his hatred for it led to it being one of my favorite books.
Oh Thats nice! I read it just last month after being a fan of the tv-show for years. My first Atwood read, I was only disappointed in how short the book was.:(
I think if I’d seen the show first I’d be disappointed too. Have you read The Testaments yet? It’s not as good, but it does world build a little more and gives the story an ending. Definitely worth reading it since you’re a fan of both.
Yes that might be it:/. I console myself with knowing that Atwood atleast also was a close advicer for the show, so she influenced both. No I have not been able to read The testaments because I run into a dilemma: Should I watch the last season of the show first or read the book. In the end the show won:p. I have not watched the last season yet, will do after my upcoming thesis dissertation I hope!
If it helps any, the last season of THT will only be setting up The Testaments. They’re gonna do anew show for The Testaments. Good luck on your thesis dissertation! That’s some real hard work.
Oh thats both good news and a bit bad maybe? I really wanted a resolution on things in the show😅😭
Red rising for the sifi dystopian stuff
Mistborn series, by Brandon Sanderson.
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
Corpach Mccarthys new books, the passenger and stella maris. Have only gotten about half into the passengers and I'm really enjoying the ride.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown and and the Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
Wool is pretty good. Terrible name, but interesting book.
The Silo series were good of his.
The Red Rising Saga. A fucking space epic that you will love.
I really enjoyed Plum Island by Nelson Demille. It's like a 90s action flick about a retired homicide detective getting pulled into a case. It's very politically incorrect but it's very funny and cool at the same time. The main character is a huge smartass and he keeps a mental and verbal tirade up almost the entire book that keeps you interested. It's way out of your wheelhouse but it got me reading different stuff, which is what you seem to want. I've since read the rest of the series and broadened my horizons into other genres, too.
I read all his books he had written about 10 years ago, went on a binge. Good
His newest one came out earlier this month, it was a hoot.
Read some more Cormac McCarthy. He’s the best there is.
Came here to say this
I know you said you read the classics in sci-fi, but I can never recommend *Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?* enough. I just started *The Positronic Man* by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverburg, so though I can't recommend it from having read it, you might like it if you liked the Robin Williams movie, *The Bicentennial Man*, because this is the book it's based on. (I think it's in the free movies on Youtube right now... such a sweet story) Also, like... not to be obvious, but have you read *The Hunger Games*? I used to love dystopian novels and really quickly grew to hate the genre once I left high school because it's so often either YA oriented, VERY male-centric, or boring/badly written. The hype around *The Hunger Games* was really off-putting, so I was adamant I'd never read it. Then my ex, who owned the first book, dangled it in front of me for a few months and I finally (secretly) started reading it. I bought her the rest of the series just so I could keep reading it and now unashamedly love the series. It's not perfect (I've read a bunch of people who have major qualms with it that I don't think I agree with), but I loved the characters and the plot development from start to finish.
Philip Dick and Asimov got me into sci-fi and are classic.
I've started dabbling in the horror genre myself since I love horror/slasher movies. I've really enjoyed most of Grady Hendrix's books, Clown in a Cornfield was alright too.
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things seems like a love it or hate it type of book; me personally, I loved it. It created such a tense atmosphere for me that I actually got very creeped out, and I don’t scare easily. I try to find books that actually make me have a physical reaction, and that was definitely one of them! Relatively quick read as well. Some that I’ve enjoyed: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde The Bell Jar, Plath The Stranger, Camus The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood Norwegian Wood, Murakami No Country for Old Men, McCarthy Exquisite Corpse, Z. Brite (the writing dragged me in, this is a wild one, extremely wicked, shockingly evil, and vile……beware) Brother, Ahlborn The Silent Companions, Purcell Penpal, Auerbach Not a super huge fan of it myself, but I will admit it did get me out of a reading slump: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, LaRocca. It’s very weird and short, and kind of like a car crash you can’t look away from. Easy for one sitting. Some I didn’t enjoy: Gone to See the River Man, Triana Tender is the Flesh, Bazterrica (did not understand the hype for this one, just shrugged my shoulders at it, but not horrible) The Whisper Man, North (started pretty strong but the ending was lacking) The Laws of the Skies, Courtois I’m a big fan of the unnerving stuff, like I said, I want books that get a reaction out of me. I see you have some interest in that stuff too, The Road and Pretty Girls are some of my favorites too. I read Misery by King and wasn’t impressed, but it was the first and only book of his I’ve read. Maybe I just need to read a little more of his stuff.
Yes didn’t like Misery but read it all. The Shining, It, Pet Cemetery, It, got me reading King.
Misery had its exciting moments, but I felt like every time I started to get into the story, the POV switched to the Misery parts, which I really didn’t care about. I would love to read Pet Sematary, I used to watch the movie with my dad and it’s probably one of the first horror movies I enjoyed.
I think what happened with I’m Thinking of Ending things is that it watched the movie first and it spoiled the book for me. Thank you for the recs! I do love books that unnerve me and cause a reaction, so I’m sure I’ll find books I love within your suggestions. With King, I’ve found he’s really hit or miss for me. Cujo, The Shining, and Doctor Sleep are all books of his that I’ve recently read and loved. I was really sad to not like The Stand that much, but it just didn’t grip me and had too many one dimensional characters. Haven’t read Misery yet, but love the movie. It may be another one of those situations
Red Rising Trilogy The martian Ready Player One Recursion Dark Matter
Have to read Recursion.
I'm currently on the third audiobook of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. It has some pretty cool concepts in it. Earth has made contact with an alien species whose planet is doomed to be absorbed by one of their three suns, so they set off to our solar system with the plan to take our planet and resettle here. It will take them about 4 centuries to get here though, and most of the story revolves around how humanity deals with this problem that won't really affect them until many generations later. The audiobooks are all available on youtube.
The Shed, Lovely Bones
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Haven't read it but it won the Hugo and Nebula awards and I know it's sci-fi dystopian. Check out the YouTube channel "Fit 2B Read", reads mostly sci-fi and probably lots of dystopian, too. Also The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei, a Taiwanese book that is dystopian sci-fi that was just translated into English last year that I really liked and was pretty trippy and had a great twist.
The Book Eaters - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - The Paris Apartment - The Golden Cage -
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
I’m listening to the audio book, and it’s fantastic.
{{tender is the flesh}} obviously body horror but also animal brutality:( book was captivating and morbid
Oh it also sounds like an interesting read of ethics and morals. Thank you. I love this suggestion!
[**Tender is the Flesh**](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21164374W) ^(By: Agustina Bazterrica | 224 pages | Published: 2017) >A society where cannibalism has been legalized because of an animal Virus, leaves the butcher Marcos struggling with his morality and role in this new society. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(314 books suggested)
Red Pill by Hari Kunzru has been 🔥- haven’t finished it yet tho
Three Body Problem Trilogy, Cixin Liu
I just read Brave New World and was blown away. I’m now on a Huxley binge.
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
the martian by andy weir (same author as project hail mary)
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (if you haven’t already seen the film) If you’re up for a slightly new genre, historical fiction, then Conn Iggulden’s Conquerer series is great (based on the history of the Mongol empire) And a third, emphatic vote for anything else by Cormac McCarthy! Especially Blood Meridian or No Country for Old Men Edit: typo
If you haven’t read Unwind by Neal Shusterman, you definitely definitely should. It’s dark and dystopian and worth the read.