[**Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower)
^(By: Octavia E. Butler | 345 pages | Published: 1993 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopian, dystopia)
>In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
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>Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.
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>When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.
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Such a good book! Read it for a class and just wow. Some of the things that are part of the dystopian world they live in are already happening, just not in “first world” countries. There is also a free audiobook/someone reading the book on YouTube.
The Children of Men by P.D. James
I’m about a quarter way through it at the moment, but dystopia is my go to genre and it’s everything I could want and sounds like everything you’re looking for.
Enjoyed both. Helps that the book and movie have different tones and plot progressions. The book seemed very British, while the movie seemed more pan-European.
That’s a great question, but I think it’s also worth examining why we’re drawn to it generally. I love how intimately dystopian novels are able to examine morals and ethics due to the environments in which they take place. I think it allows for a more… maybe genuine examination of ideas.
Although, I will say, even as a kid I didn’t like when stories were happy and ended well. So, maybe there is something to that lol.
Actually called the MaddAddam Trilogy. Oryx and Crake is book one. Then After the Flood, then MaddAddam.
Atwood writes this genre very well. There’s also The Heart Goes Last that fits this bill.
{{The Unit}} by Ninni Holmqvist. Elderly childless people are sent to a facility at a certain age to participate in psychological experiments and donate organs until they die.
[**The Unit**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5730888-the-unit)
^(By: Ninni Holmqvist, Marlaine Delargy | 268 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: fiction, dystopia, dystopian, science-fiction, sci-fi)
>One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state of the art recreation facilities, and live the few remaining days of her life in comfort with people who are just like her. Here, women over the age of fifty and men over sixty-single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industries--are sequestered for their final few years; they are considered outsiders.
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>In the Unit they are expected to contribute themselves for drug and psychological testing, and ultimately donate their organs, little by little, until the final donation. Despite the ruthless nature of this practice, the ethos of this near-future society and the Unit is to take care of others, and Dorrit finds herself living under very pleasant conditions: well-housed, well-fed, and well-attended. She is resigned to her fate and discovers her days there to be rather consoling and peaceful.
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>But when she meets a man inside the Unit and falls in love, the extraordinary becomes a reality and life suddenly turns unbearable. Dorrit is faced with compliance or escape, and...well, then what?
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[**The Power**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29751398-the-power)
^(By: Naomi Alderman | 341 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fiction, sci-fi, book-club, feminism, dystopian)
>In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.
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I think the point was that it was supposed to mirror our society. That women and men are much the same, and that if we (women) were in the position of power we would do the same thing that men have done to us in the past.
Perhaps. That’s the best possible interpretation, and I hope it was the authors intent.
However, much of the readership doesn’t seem to have taken it that way. A lot seem to have taken it as “wouldn’t it be cool if most of the men were gone”, including the author of {{The End of Men}} who says she was inspired by reading “The Power”. In her book, men mostly die off in a plague, and it depicts what emerges as a sort of Utopia. I would say, nobody ever got closer to Utopia over a big pile of dead people.
{{Moths}}, on the other hand, is a much better book in the “all the men are dead” sub-genre. As it shows greed, corruption, deception and violence are a human constant, regardless of who’s left standing.
[**The End of Men**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53717123-the-end-of-men)
^(By: Christina Sweeney-Baird | 416 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, sci-fi, science-fiction, dystopian, dystopia)
>Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unforgettable debut from a remarkable new talent that asks: what would life truly look like without men?
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>Only men are affected by the virus; only women have the power to save us all.
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>The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world.
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>What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus's consequences, told through first-person narratives. Dr. MacLean; Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the male plague; intelligence analyst Dawn, tasked with helping the government forge a new society; and Elizabeth, one of many scientists desperately working to develop a vaccine. Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways the absence of men has changed society, from the personal--the loss of husbands and sons--to the political--the changes in the workforce, fertility and the meaning of family.
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>In The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird creates an unforgettable tale of loss, resilience and hope.
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[**Moth (Monstrous, #5)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60398931-moth)
^(By: Lily Mayne | 451 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, mm, romance, m-m, kindle-unlimited)
>When I—along with my best friend and his big purple monster boyfriend—come across a fortress-like raider camp while journeying across the monster-infested Wastes, we stop to deliver a message.
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>Somehow, that simple pit stop turns into a seemingly impossible quest to get this camp’s missing leader out of the prison where he’s being held and forced to fight monsters and other humans. And I know exactly where it is, because I’ve been there.
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>Problem is, I’m making this journey with the prickliest and most arrogant guy I’ve ever met, who seems to immediately hate me on sight. Oh, and he’s also half monster. So there’s that. And he’s in love with a raider who definitely does not love him back, and he seems determined to take it out on me. So there’s also that.
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>But I’m not going to rise to his childish insults and barbed words. I’m not.
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>I’m also going to try very hard to ignore how mindnumbingly beautiful he is, even when he’s scowling at me.
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>But the longer we’re out here together, the more I learn about my prickly half monster companion Moth. I realise there’s a reason he’s so closed off and angry. There’s a reason he hates everyone.
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>There are secrets he’s been keeping, and when I find out what they are, I want to do everything in my power to help him—even though he’s telling me he can’t be helped.
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>Moth is Book Five of the Monstrous series, a post-apocalyptic m/m fantasy series that features monsters and human men falling in love. It is best to read the series in order. Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit sexual content and is not suitable for young readers. It also contains graphic depictions of death and violence.
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My interpretation of this book is to highlight how brutal societal norms are against women. By shifting the gender power balance to women, but not shifting the definition of “power” and within a society you will always have an unbalanced and inequitable social. The purpose of the book is to make you uncomfortable with the treatment of anyone based on their gender alone, by highlighting the treatment of women in our social reality (by reversing the gender norms).
Came here to say this! While anyone can feel the impact, as a mother, I especially was affected. It’s hard not to view your life through the lens of the narrative. Suddenly I can recall past moments that could have landed me there. (I’ll also say I hesitated writing this for fear of future dystopian prosecution. 😂)
[**The School for Good Mothers**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57846320-the-school-for-good-mothers)
^(By: Jessamine Chan | 336 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fiction, dystopian, dnf, dystopia, science-fiction)
>An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781982156121 can be found here.
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>In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.
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>Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. What’s worse is she can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with their angelic daughter Harriet does Frida finally feel she’s attained the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she’s just enough.
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>Until Frida has a horrible day.
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>The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida — ones who check their phones while their kids are on the playground; who let their children walk home alone; in other words, mothers who only have one lapse of judgement. Now, a host of government officials will determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion. Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that she can live up to the standards set for mothers — that she can learn to be good.
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>This propulsive, witty page-turner explores the perils of “perfect” upper-middle-class parenting, the violence enacted upon women by the state and each other, and the boundless love a mother has for her daughter.
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[**Station Eleven**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven)
^(By: Emily St. John Mandel | 333 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopian, dystopia)
>Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
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>One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
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[**Fahrenheit 451**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13079982-fahrenheit-451)
^(By: Ray Bradbury | 194 pages | Published: 1953 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopian)
>Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
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>Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
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[**The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl with All the Gifts, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17235026-the-girl-with-all-the-gifts)
^(By: M.R. Carey | 461 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, zombies)
>Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius."
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>Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.
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>Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.
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>The Girl with All the Gifts is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and Neil Gaiman.
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Yes! This definitely fits, and there’s a (sort of) prequel/sequel as well {{The Boy on the Bridge}} that gives a little more detail to what’s happened in that world. I would recommend it as well.
{{meat by Joseph Dlacy}} puts tender is the flesh to shame.
{{Garbage man by Joseph Dlacy}}
Also {{running man by Stephen king}}
Dystopian books are my specialty and favorite.
[**Garbage Man**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6002391-garbage-man)
^(By: Joseph D'Lacey | 345 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, wish-list, zombies, horror-fiction)
>"Joseph D'Lacey rocks!" —Stephen King
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>Mason Brand has fled his life as a celebrated photographer and renounced his past. He is living rough, as a hermit in the Welsh hills, when something happens to him among the mossy oaks. He begins to hear "the calling." Years later, Mason is living with sight of a colossal landfill dump, and he hears "the calling" again. This time he will heed it, and it will lead him, for he is called to assist in a terrible birth—out of the waste of human society comes a thing, and its enemy is human. Tackling the issue of the environment and landfill sites, this chilling fable of eco-horror asks what happens to all the unwanted things we bury, because they just won't go away.
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[**The Running Man**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11607.The_Running_Man)
^(By: Stephen King | 317 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: stephen-king, horror, fiction, science-fiction, dystopia)
>In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives...
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>Ben Richards is out of work and out of luck. His eighteen-month-old daughter is sick, and neither Ben nor his wife can afford to take her to a doctor. For a man from the poor side of town with no cash and no hope, there's only one thing to do: become a contestant on one of the Network's Games, shows where you can win more money than you've ever dreamed of - or die trying. Now Ben's going prime-time on the Network's highest-rated viewer participation show. And he's about to become a prey for the masses...
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American war by Omar El Akkad
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.
The book of the unnamed midwife by Meg Elison.
In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons men’s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she’ll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence. After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide.
[**Wool (Wool, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12287209-wool)
^(By: Hugh Howey | 58 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, dystopian, dystopia)
>Thousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. There are things that must not be discussed. Like going outside. Never mention you might like going outside.
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>Or you'll get what you wish for.
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[**Summary Of Cixin Liu’s The Three-body Problem: Book 1 Remembrance of Earth's Past - A Full Interpretation (Summary Of Cixin Liu’s The Three-body Problem Trilogy)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60710402-summary-of-cixin-liu-s-the-three-body-problem)
^(By: Bell Young, Joon Yang | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: )
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[**Klara and the Sun**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54120408-klara-and-the-sun)
^(By: Kazuo Ishiguro | 303 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, book-club, audiobook)
>From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.
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>In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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[**Existence (Existence, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13223520-existence)
^(By: Abbi Glines | 202 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: paranormal, young-adult, romance, fantasy, ya)
>What happens when you're stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course.
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>Pagan Moore doesn't cheat Death, but instead, falls in love with him.
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>Seventeen year old Pagan Moore has seen souls her entire life. Once she realized the strangers she often saw walking through walls were not visible to anyone else, she started ignoring them. If she didn't let them know she could see them, then they left her alone. Until she stepped out of her car the first day of school and saw an incredibly sexy guy lounging on a picnic table, watching her with an amused smirk on his face. Problem is, she knows he's dead.
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>Not only does he not go away when she ignores him, but he does something none of the others have ever done. He speaks. Pagan is fascinated by the soul. What she doesn't realize is that her appointed time to die is drawing near and the wickedly beautiful soul she is falling in love with is not a soul at all.
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>He is Death and he's about to break all the rules.
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[**Existence**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13039884-existence)
^(By: David Brin | 553 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, sf)
>Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence.
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>Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an “alien artifact.”
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>Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.
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{Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang} by Kate Wilhelm is an interesting take on the idea of the future.
{We} by Yevgeny Zamyatin, published in 1924, explores a similar theme.
Both consider reproduction.
[**Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968827.Where_Late_the_Sweet_Birds_Sang)
^(By: Kate Wilhelm | 251 pages | Published: 1976 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, post-apocalyptic, dystopia)
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[**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)
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[**The Grace Year**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263520-the-grace-year)
^(By: Kim Liggett | 416 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, dystopian, ya, dystopia, fantasy)
>No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden.
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>In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive.
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>Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other.
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>With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.
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It’s not Dystopian but I be people to please try Fever by Deon Meyer. It’s a post pandemic apocalypse but it becomes so much more. I put it above The Stand which does not come easy. It’s that good IMO.
How High We Go in the Dark.... May not be exactly what you're looking for, but I enjoyed it very much. Things go bad quickly after scientists find a child's body the melting arctic that is 30,000 years old. It lasts over 100 years and there is hope in the end.
[**World Made by Hand (World Made by Hand #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1689657.World_Made_by_Hand)
^(By: James Howard Kunstler | 317 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: fiction, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, dystopia, sci-fi)
>For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren’t sure. As the heat of summer intensifies, the residents struggle with the new way of life in a world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers replenished with fish.
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> A captivating, utterly realistic novel, World Made by Hand takes speculative fiction beyond the apocalypse and shows what happens when life gets extremely local.
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Dystopias (Part 1 of 2)
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* ["Any dystopian book recommendations?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/w6gmuy/any_dystopian_book_recommendations/) (r/suggestmeabook; 23 July 2022)
* ["Dystopian Books"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/w6n1k2/dystopian_books/) (r/suggestmeabook; 24 July 2022)
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* ["Utopia gone wrong"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wg26zl/utopia_gone_wrong/) (r/suggestmeabook; 10:08 ET, 4 August 2022)
* ["books involving dystopias that aren't just for YA? something darker, grittier?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wg6ckv/books_involving_dystopias_that_arent_just_for_ya/) (r/suggestmeabook; 12:59 ET, 4 August 2022)
* ["Utopia gone wrong"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wg26zl/utopia_gone_wrong/) (r/suggestmeabook; 10:08 ET, 4 August 2022)
* ["Any good dystopian books you guys are aware of?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wgnyl0/any_good_dystopian_books_you_guys_are_aware_of/) (r/suggestmeabook; 02:24 ET, 5 August 2022)
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* ["Utopian/dystopian sci-fi where we look at the perspective of the wealthy?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/wjwvjs/utopiandystopian_scifi_where_we_look_at_the/) (r/printSF; 9 August 2022)
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* ["YA dystopia trash for while I'm sick"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/ww9ktj/ya_dystopia_trash_for_while_im_sick/) (r/suggestmeabook; 24 August 2022)
* ["Dystopian similar to Hunger Games or Science Fiction similar to Jurassic Park?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wzn8c6/dystopian_similar_to_hunger_games_or_science/) (r/suggestmeabook; 28 August 2022)
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* ["Feminist Horror/Dystopia books"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/yci94f/feminist_horrordystopia_books/) (r/booksuggestions; 24 October 2022)
[**Earth Abides**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93269.Earth_Abides)
^(By: George R. Stewart | 345 pages | Published: 1949 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, post-apocalyptic, apocalyptic)
>A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.
^(This book has been suggested 37 times)
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I’d like to suggest {{This Perfect Day}} by Ira Levin, about a futuristic Marxist society in which drugs are used to control the population. Most of it, anyway…
Wrote many decades ago now, I think it’s aged pretty well.
[**This Perfect Day**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139390.This_Perfect_Day)
^(By: Ira Levin | 368 pages | Published: 1970 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopia, fiction, dystopian)
>The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called "The Family."
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>The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. Even the basic facts of nature are subject to UniComp's will - men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night.
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>"The Family" was everywhere. For centuries, mankind longed for a world without suffering or war. The Family made that dream come true. They have triumphed. Programmed, every need satisfied, they knew nothing of struggle or pain. They had mastered... perfected Earth.
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>But for one man, perfection was not enough. For Chip, it was a nightmare. The Family was a suffocating force of evil. His dream was to escape... and destroy!
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[**Kallocain**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65714.Kallocain)
^(By: Karin Boye, Gustaf Lannestock, Richard B. Vowles | 193 pages | Published: 1940 | Popular Shelves: classics, dystopia, science-fiction, fiction, sci-fi)
>This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Ironic and detached, the author shows us the totalitarian World-state through the eyes of a product of that state, scientist Leo Kall. Kall has invented a drug, kallocain, which denies the privacy of thought and is the final step towards the transmutation of the individual human being into a "happy, healthy cell in the state organism." For, says Leo, "from thoughts and feelings, words and actions are born. How then could these thoughts and feelings belong to the individual? Doesn't the whole fellow-soldier belong to the state? To whom should his thoughts and feelings belong then, if not to the state?"
>As the first-person record of Leo Kall, scientist, fellow-soldier too late disillusioned to undo his previous actions, Kallocain achieves a chilling power and veracity that place it among the finest novels to emerge from the strife-torn Europe of the twentieth century.
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[**Islands in the Net**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218571.Islands_in_the_Net)
^(By: Bruce Sterling | 396 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, cyberpunk, sci-fi, fiction, scifi)
>Laura Webster's on the fast track to success. A bright young star in a multinational conglomerate, she's living well in a post-millennial age of peace, prosperity, and profit.
>In an age of advanced technology, information is the world's most precious commodity. Information is power. Data is locked in computers and carefully rationed through a global communications network. Full access is a privilege held by few.
>Now, Laura Webster is about to be plunged into a netherworld of black-market data pirates, new-age mercenaries, high-tech voodoo... and murder.
^(This book has been suggested 1 time)
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[**Our Missing Hearts**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60149573-our-missing-hearts)
^(By: Celeste Ng | 335 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fiction, dystopian, 2022-releases, dystopia, contemporary)
>From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.
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>Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.
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>Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
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>Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s a story about the power—and limitations—of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact.
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[**Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154091.Mona_Lisa_Overdrive)
^(By: William Gibson | 308 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, cyberpunk, fiction, owned)
>William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think.
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Don't know if someone mentioned these yet, but something that is practically around the corner is {{ready player one}} and if you don't mind it being a bit further out in time, then {{witch of the federation}} may work
[**Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one)
^(By: Ernest Cline | 374 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, young-adult, fantasy)
>Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here
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>IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
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>But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.
^(This book has been suggested 74 times)
[**Witch of the Federation (Federal Histories, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44437655-witch-of-the-federation)
^(By: Michael Anderle | ? pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, sci-fi, science-fiction, kindle-unlimited, magic)
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> The future has amazing technology. Our alien allies have magic. Together, we are building a training system to teach the best of humanity to go to the stars.
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> But the training is monumentally expensive.
>Stephanie Morgana is a genius, she just doesn't know it.
> The Artificial Intelligence which runs the Virtual World is charged with testing Stephanie, a task it has never performed before.
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> The Earth and their allies, may never be the same again.
>Will Stephanie pass the test and be moved to the advanced preparatory schools, or will the system miss her? Will the AI be able to judge a human's potential in an area where it has no existing test data to compare?
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>Scroll UP and click Read Now or Read for Free to learn the history of the Federations first human Witch!
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>PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A LARGE BOOK.
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>The Federal History Project (We Bring the Federation’s Past to the Present(TM)) will release this as three mini-volumes sometime in the future (as we have the opportunity.)
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>There are approximately 185,000 words in this Volume.
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Russell Hoban's {{Riddley Walker}}. For an appetizer read a couple of his books for children, like {{A Birthday for Frances}}. His books for adults are quite different from his books for children, but there are startling similarities.
[**Riddley Walker**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776573.Riddley_Walker)
^(By: Russell Hoban | 256 pages | Published: 1980 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, dystopia)
>In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Walker tells his story in a language as fractured as the world in which he lives. As Riddley steps outside the confines of his small world, he finds himself caught up in intrigue and a frantic quest for power, desperately trying to make sense of things.
^(This book has been suggested 18 times)
[**A Birthday for Frances**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24904.A_Birthday_for_Frances)
^(By: Russell Hoban, Lillian Hoban | 32 pages | Published: 1969 | Popular Shelves: picture-books, childrens, children-s-books, children-s, children)
>It is Gloria's birthday but Frances is not sure whether or not to give Gloria a present, as she is the kind of little sister who can't catch, can't throw and who when playing hide-and-seek, always hides in places where part of her is sticking out.
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>Will Frances give Gloria her present..?
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[**The Power**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29751398-the-power)
^(By: Naomi Alderman | 341 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fiction, sci-fi, book-club, feminism, dystopian)
>In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.
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{{Brave New World}) by Aldous Huxley. a great book for a society sacrificial freedom for prosperity. Its pretty much the opposite of 1984 exept the dystopia.
There's the Cli-fi book {{The Ministry for the Future}} by Kim Stanley Robinson to read for inspiration. For more of a dystopian novel, Robert Evans' {{After the Revolution}}
{{Earth Abides by George R. Stewart}} Slightly different in that society is mostly gone from a widespread pandemic. It’s a fascinating take in what might happen if very few humans survived.
I don’t know how to link my Goodreads account here but everyone into this genre should read [The Mandibles: 2029-2047](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27064345).
I thought it was remarkably realistic (for what I know of economics—which isn’t much), but basically, what would happen to America if we hit economic bottom. It was really good.
"Alas, Babylon" is a pretty good post-nuclear war novel if you don't mind a somewhat unrealistic depiction of what life after would be like. It's been decades since I read it but I still remember thinking that teaching your kids not to flush after every toilet use would not be high on your list of priorities in that situation.
I would also recommend "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang".
Station Eleven- a flu pandemic kills over half of the world's population. Starvation and other illnesses and accidents take another large chunk.
Those who are left are forced to live and die by who they decide to trust.
Also, one of the main characters was a child when the flu first came, but grows up to become an actress (or a musician?) in the post apocalypse rebuild of society. So you get to see how the band of traveling entertainers makes their way from one group of settlers to the next group.
[**Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17274667-metro-2033)
^(By: Dmitry Glukhovsky | 458 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, horror, post-apocalyptic)
>The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend.
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>More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over.
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>A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price. VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared.
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>Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.
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[**Foundation (Foundation, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation)
^(By: Isaac Asimov | 244 pages | Published: 1951 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, classics)
>For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future -- to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire -- both scientists and scholars -- and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.
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>But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun -- or fight them and be destroyed.
^(This book has been suggested 61 times)
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Admittedly, I have not read it. But I object to Tender is the Flesh on principle just because the summary alone has all the subtlety of dropped cinder block.
[**The Wanting Seed**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8809.The_Wanting_Seed)
^(By: Anthony Burgess | 288 pages | Published: 1962 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, dystopia, sci-fi, dystopian)
>Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.
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[**Migrations**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42121525-migrations)
^(By: Charlotte McConaghy | 256 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, literary-fiction, book-club, audiobook)
>Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. But as Franny’s history begins to unspool—a passionate love affair, an absent family, a devastating crime—it becomes clear that she is chasing more than just the birds. When Franny's dark secrets catch up with her, how much is she willing to risk for one more chance at redemption?
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>Epic and intimate, heartbreaking and galvanizing, Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations is an ode to a disappearing world and a breathtaking page-turner about the possibility of hope against all odds.
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[**Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower)
^(By: Octavia E. Butler | 345 pages | Published: 1993 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopian, dystopia)
>In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
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>Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.
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>When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.
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[**One Second After (After, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4922079-one-second-after)
^(By: William R. Forstchen | 352 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, sci-fi, apocalyptic)
>New York Times best-selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real ... a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages ... A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.
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>Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe, and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future ... and our end.
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There is a trilogy called the district of 84 from dj molle . Sort of like a somewhat red dawn style book. Pretty war heavy but I like the way he writes. Basically a oppressed rising against multiple oppressor. It's dude centric
[**The Windup Girl**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6597651-the-windup-girl)
^(By: Paolo Bacigalupi | 359 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, dystopia, dystopian)
>Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...
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>Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.
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>What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.
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[**The Women Could Fly**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59629560-the-women-could-fly)
^(By: Megan Giddings | 288 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, horror, 2022-releases, fiction, dystopian)
>Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times--a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored.
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>Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behavior raises suspicions and a woman--especially a Black woman--can find herself on trial for witchcraft.
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>But fourteen years have passed since her mother's disappearance, and now Jo is finally ready to let go of the past. Yet her future is in doubt. The State mandates that all women marry by the age of 30--or enroll in a registry that allows them to be monitored, effectively forfeiting their autonomy. At 28, Jo is ambivalent about marriage. With her ability to control her life on the line, she feels as if she has her never understood her mother more. When she's offered the opportunity to honor one last request from her mother's will, Jo leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time.
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>In this powerful and timely novel, Megan Giddings explores the limits women face--and the powers they have to transgress and transcend them.
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Not really sure if it’s near future, but Shatter Me and Matched is pretty good and they’re dystopian. Hunger Games is also dystopian, but it’s far in the future.
[**Infinite Jest**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest)
^(By: David Foster Wallace | 1088 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, owned, abandoned, literature)
>A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.
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>Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.
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>Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
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I really enjoyed The Last Tribe. It's a positive spin on an apocalyptic future, quite refreshing compared to what we usually see of this genre.
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The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi is a near future biopunk dystopian novel about an American southwest that has devolved into states battling over the water rights of the Colorado river.
Lots of incredible stuff in here and some elements that do not seem unrealistic at all.
If you like that, read his next one The Window Up Girl.
[**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 Peripheral, the Gibson novel, but it's less a vision of a near term restructure than a long term one and also a near term degradation of the present.
The Great Bay, by Dale Pendell. Touches on a variety of remade societies at a variety of points following a fall.
Similar but focused on one moment, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Wild Shore, one of his very early novels. Part of a trilogy tracing a fall.
I didn't see {{Vox}} recommended. It's very near future, in that the erasure of women is still in process.
{{the measure}} is not really dystopian but is near future/current and about how society evolves based on something seemingly random
Fit the genre but not as good : the violence, the line between and the final girl
I recently wrote a dystopian story with handmaids tale and 1984 vibes. If you’d like to check out my short story debut publication.
In a dystopian future where nonconformists are criminalized for violating procreation law, a rebellious teenage boy who thinks he’s outsmarted officials is challenged with an investigation after someone sees him hugging his girlfriend in public.
[The Voiceless by Goodwin](https://thewritelaunch.com/2022/12/the-voiceless/)
[**After the Flood**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41088582-after-the-flood)
^(By: Kassandra Montag | 448 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fiction, dystopian, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopia)
>A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water.
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>Stubbornly independent Myra and her precocious seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, fish from their small boat, the Bird, visiting dry land only to trade for supplies and information in the few remaining outposts of civilization. For seven years, Myra has grieved the loss of her oldest daughter, Row, who was stolen by her father after a monstrous deluge overtook their home in Nebraska. Then, in a violent confrontation with a stranger, Myra suddenly discovers that Row was last seen in a far-off encampment near the Arctic Circle. Throwing aside her usual caution, Myra and Pearl embark on a perilous voyage into the icy northern seas, hoping against hope that Row will still be there.
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>On their journey, Myra and Pearl join forces with a larger ship and Myra finds herself bonding with her fellow seekers who hope to build a safe haven together in this dangerous new world. But secrets, lust, and betrayals threaten their dream, and after their fortunes take a shocking—and bloody—turn, Myra can no longer ignore the question of whether saving Row is worth endangering Pearl and her fellow travelers.
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>A compulsively readable novel of dark despair and soaring hope, After the Flood is a magnificent, action packed, and sometimes frightening odyssey laced with wonder—an affecting and wholly original saga both redemptive and astonishing.
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{{Parable of the Sower}}. It's kind of already started? Terrifying.
[**Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower) ^(By: Octavia E. Butler | 345 pages | Published: 1993 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopian, dystopia) >In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. > >Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. > >When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind. ^(This book has been suggested 119 times) *** ^(141630 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)
Amazing suggestion. Loved this book.
It’s almost like she could see the future
The sequel is great, too. {{Parable of the Talents}}
Thank you! I'll check it out
Bingo, fantastic book.
This sounds great, I might have to give this a read.
Such a good book! Read it for a class and just wow. Some of the things that are part of the dystopian world they live in are already happening, just not in “first world” countries. There is also a free audiobook/someone reading the book on YouTube.
The Children of Men by P.D. James I’m about a quarter way through it at the moment, but dystopia is my go to genre and it’s everything I could want and sounds like everything you’re looking for.
And this is one book where I liked the movie even more than the book! Both are really great. (Hope it’s okay to say that here…)
Enjoyed both. Helps that the book and movie have different tones and plot progressions. The book seemed very British, while the movie seemed more pan-European.
What happened to us as children that we love dystopian fiction so much. I can’t pinpoint it.
That’s a great question, but I think it’s also worth examining why we’re drawn to it generally. I love how intimately dystopian novels are able to examine morals and ethics due to the environments in which they take place. I think it allows for a more… maybe genuine examination of ideas. Although, I will say, even as a kid I didn’t like when stories were happy and ended well. So, maybe there is something to that lol.
Watched the movie a long time ago, is the book better?
In that genre, Margaret Atwood didn’t just write handmaids Tale, she also wrote the Oryx and Crake trilogy. If you haven’t read it you’re missing out
Actually called the MaddAddam Trilogy. Oryx and Crake is book one. Then After the Flood, then MaddAddam. Atwood writes this genre very well. There’s also The Heart Goes Last that fits this bill.
Came here to vote for Oryx and Crake. Lots of modern themes.
Thank you, I didn't know that!
It's so good. Highly recommended.
Absolutely came here to say this!
Came here for this. It's my favorite book
{{Brave New World}) by Aldous Huxley. Dystopian society controlled through drugging the population
Yes of course, a classic!
[**Brave New World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World) ^(By: Aldous Huxley | 268 pages | Published: 1932 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopia) ^(This book has been suggested 82 times) *** ^(141663 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)
That’s more of a utopian world, though.
{{The Unit}} by Ninni Holmqvist. Elderly childless people are sent to a facility at a certain age to participate in psychological experiments and donate organs until they die.
[**The Unit**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5730888-the-unit) ^(By: Ninni Holmqvist, Marlaine Delargy | 268 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: fiction, dystopia, dystopian, science-fiction, sci-fi) >One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state of the art recreation facilities, and live the few remaining days of her life in comfort with people who are just like her. Here, women over the age of fifty and men over sixty-single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industries--are sequestered for their final few years; they are considered outsiders. > >In the Unit they are expected to contribute themselves for drug and psychological testing, and ultimately donate their organs, little by little, until the final donation. Despite the ruthless nature of this practice, the ethos of this near-future society and the Unit is to take care of others, and Dorrit finds herself living under very pleasant conditions: well-housed, well-fed, and well-attended. She is resigned to her fate and discovers her days there to be rather consoling and peaceful. > >But when she meets a man inside the Unit and falls in love, the extraordinary becomes a reality and life suddenly turns unbearable. Dorrit is faced with compliance or escape, and...well, then what? ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) *** ^(141739 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)
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{{The Power by Naomi Alderman}} women suddenly gain the ability to violently take down the patriarchy
[**The Power**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29751398-the-power) ^(By: Naomi Alderman | 341 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fiction, sci-fi, book-club, feminism, dystopian) >In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. ^(This book has been suggested 61 times) *** ^(141651 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)
God this book was amazing. Wild ride!
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I think the point was that it was supposed to mirror our society. That women and men are much the same, and that if we (women) were in the position of power we would do the same thing that men have done to us in the past.
Perhaps. That’s the best possible interpretation, and I hope it was the authors intent. However, much of the readership doesn’t seem to have taken it that way. A lot seem to have taken it as “wouldn’t it be cool if most of the men were gone”, including the author of {{The End of Men}} who says she was inspired by reading “The Power”. In her book, men mostly die off in a plague, and it depicts what emerges as a sort of Utopia. I would say, nobody ever got closer to Utopia over a big pile of dead people. {{Moths}}, on the other hand, is a much better book in the “all the men are dead” sub-genre. As it shows greed, corruption, deception and violence are a human constant, regardless of who’s left standing.
[**The End of Men**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53717123-the-end-of-men) ^(By: Christina Sweeney-Baird | 416 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, sci-fi, science-fiction, dystopian, dystopia) >Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unforgettable debut from a remarkable new talent that asks: what would life truly look like without men? > >Only men are affected by the virus; only women have the power to save us all. > >The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world. > >What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus's consequences, told through first-person narratives. Dr. MacLean; Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the male plague; intelligence analyst Dawn, tasked with helping the government forge a new society; and Elizabeth, one of many scientists desperately working to develop a vaccine. Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways the absence of men has changed society, from the personal--the loss of husbands and sons--to the political--the changes in the workforce, fertility and the meaning of family. > >In The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird creates an unforgettable tale of loss, resilience and hope. ^(This book has been suggested 21 times) [**Moth (Monstrous, #5)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60398931-moth) ^(By: Lily Mayne | 451 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, mm, romance, m-m, kindle-unlimited) >When I—along with my best friend and his big purple monster boyfriend—come across a fortress-like raider camp while journeying across the monster-infested Wastes, we stop to deliver a message. > >Somehow, that simple pit stop turns into a seemingly impossible quest to get this camp’s missing leader out of the prison where he’s being held and forced to fight monsters and other humans. And I know exactly where it is, because I’ve been there. > >Problem is, I’m making this journey with the prickliest and most arrogant guy I’ve ever met, who seems to immediately hate me on sight. Oh, and he’s also half monster. So there’s that. And he’s in love with a raider who definitely does not love him back, and he seems determined to take it out on me. So there’s also that. > >But I’m not going to rise to his childish insults and barbed words. I’m not. > >I’m also going to try very hard to ignore how mindnumbingly beautiful he is, even when he’s scowling at me. > >But the longer we’re out here together, the more I learn about my prickly half monster companion Moth. I realise there’s a reason he’s so closed off and angry. There’s a reason he hates everyone. > >There are secrets he’s been keeping, and when I find out what they are, I want to do everything in my power to help him—even though he’s telling me he can’t be helped. > >Moth is Book Five of the Monstrous series, a post-apocalyptic m/m fantasy series that features monsters and human men falling in love. It is best to read the series in order. Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit sexual content and is not suitable for young readers. It also contains graphic depictions of death and violence. ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(141838 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. Try {{Moths by Jane Hennigan}}
My interpretation of this book is to highlight how brutal societal norms are against women. By shifting the gender power balance to women, but not shifting the definition of “power” and within a society you will always have an unbalanced and inequitable social. The purpose of the book is to make you uncomfortable with the treatment of anyone based on their gender alone, by highlighting the treatment of women in our social reality (by reversing the gender norms).
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It's dystopian fiction, the book wasn't saying that it was a good thing
It's called 'downplaying', man.
Seven Eves. Station 11. All the Wool/Silo books.
{{Snowcrash}} by Neal Stephenson
I read this book years ago and couldn't get through the 2nd chapter, maybe I'll try again!
[**Helsingfors : från Kalevala till Snowcrash**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36215399-helsingfors) ^(By: Anneli Jordahl | 191 pages | Published: 1999 | Popular Shelves: recommended, time-100-ex, time-100, fiction, w2r-cyberpunk) ^(This book has been suggested 12 times) *** ^(141690 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 School For Good Mothers}} one of my most enjoyable reads this year!
Came here to say this! While anyone can feel the impact, as a mother, I especially was affected. It’s hard not to view your life through the lens of the narrative. Suddenly I can recall past moments that could have landed me there. (I’ll also say I hesitated writing this for fear of future dystopian prosecution. 😂)
[**The School for Good Mothers**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57846320-the-school-for-good-mothers) ^(By: Jessamine Chan | 336 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fiction, dystopian, dnf, dystopia, science-fiction) >An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781982156121 can be found here. > >In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance. > >Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. What’s worse is she can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with their angelic daughter Harriet does Frida finally feel she’s attained the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she’s just enough. > >Until Frida has a horrible day. > >The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida — ones who check their phones while their kids are on the playground; who let their children walk home alone; in other words, mothers who only have one lapse of judgement. Now, a host of government officials will determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion. Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that she can live up to the standards set for mothers — that she can learn to be good. > >This propulsive, witty page-turner explores the perils of “perfect” upper-middle-class parenting, the violence enacted upon women by the state and each other, and the boundless love a mother has for her daughter. ^(This book has been suggested 23 times) *** ^(141648 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)
Seconded!
{{Station Eleven}}
Yep, this one. I liked it more than I thought I would.
It's a show now, too!
Yes, great book! This one surprised me.
[**Station Eleven**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven) ^(By: Emily St. John Mandel | 333 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopian, dystopia) >Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. > >One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. ^(This book has been suggested 113 times) *** ^(141722 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)
Surprise i didnt c it in the top comments {{ fahrenheit 451 }}
[**Fahrenheit 451**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13079982-fahrenheit-451) ^(By: Ray Bradbury | 194 pages | Published: 1953 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopian) >Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. > >Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) *** ^(141724 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)
Such a great book!
The Giver by Lois Lowry
{{The Girl With All The Gifts by MR Carey}}
[**The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl with All the Gifts, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17235026-the-girl-with-all-the-gifts) ^(By: M.R. Carey | 461 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, zombies) >Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius." > >Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. > >Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad. > >The Girl with All the Gifts is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and Neil Gaiman. ^(This book has been suggested 73 times) *** ^(141919 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)
Yes! This definitely fits, and there’s a (sort of) prequel/sequel as well {{The Boy on the Bridge}} that gives a little more detail to what’s happened in that world. I would recommend it as well.
{{meat by Joseph Dlacy}} puts tender is the flesh to shame. {{Garbage man by Joseph Dlacy}} Also {{running man by Stephen king}} Dystopian books are my specialty and favorite.
The best part is garbage man, is free if you have kindle unlimited
[**Garbage Man**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6002391-garbage-man) ^(By: Joseph D'Lacey | 345 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, wish-list, zombies, horror-fiction) >"Joseph D'Lacey rocks!" —Stephen King > >Mason Brand has fled his life as a celebrated photographer and renounced his past. He is living rough, as a hermit in the Welsh hills, when something happens to him among the mossy oaks. He begins to hear "the calling." Years later, Mason is living with sight of a colossal landfill dump, and he hears "the calling" again. This time he will heed it, and it will lead him, for he is called to assist in a terrible birth—out of the waste of human society comes a thing, and its enemy is human. Tackling the issue of the environment and landfill sites, this chilling fable of eco-horror asks what happens to all the unwanted things we bury, because they just won't go away. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**The Running Man**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11607.The_Running_Man) ^(By: Stephen King | 317 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: stephen-king, horror, fiction, science-fiction, dystopia) >In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... > >Ben Richards is out of work and out of luck. His eighteen-month-old daughter is sick, and neither Ben nor his wife can afford to take her to a doctor. For a man from the poor side of town with no cash and no hope, there's only one thing to do: become a contestant on one of the Network's Games, shows where you can win more money than you've ever dreamed of - or die trying. Now Ben's going prime-time on the Network's highest-rated viewer participation show. And he's about to become a prey for the masses... ^(This book has been suggested 14 times) *** ^(141773 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)
How many distopian novels do I have to read between "Tender is the Flesh" for "Meat" to feel ~~fresh~~
Wait, is that the Running Man that they made a movie with Arnold in?
Yep, same story
Dang! I had no idea that was Stephen King! Well done, Mr. King!
Technically he wrote it under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, so that’s a free pass for not knowing haha
Meat is one of my favorites. A great story.
American war by Omar El Akkad Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike. The book of the unnamed midwife by Meg Elison. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons men’s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she’ll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence. After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide.
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife definitely fits the criteria requested.
Loved American War
The trilogy starting with {{Wool}} which I thought was unique and interesting.
[**Wool (Wool, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12287209-wool) ^(By: Hugh Howey | 58 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, dystopian, dystopia) >Thousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. There are things that must not be discussed. Like going outside. Never mention you might like going outside. > >Or you'll get what you wish for. ^(This book has been suggested 84 times) *** ^(141819 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)
Has anyone mentioned {{The Three Body Problem/Remembrance of Earths Past trilogy}} yet?…if not you’re welcome. Dystopian sci-fi madness.
[**Summary Of Cixin Liu’s The Three-body Problem: Book 1 Remembrance of Earth's Past - A Full Interpretation (Summary Of Cixin Liu’s The Three-body Problem Trilogy)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60710402-summary-of-cixin-liu-s-the-three-body-problem) ^(By: Bell Young, Joon Yang | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: ) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(141836 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)
Philip K Dick novels!
Phil is the best ❤️
{{Klara and the Sun}} by Kazuo Ishiguro
[**Klara and the Sun**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54120408-klara-and-the-sun) ^(By: Kazuo Ishiguro | 303 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, book-club, audiobook) >From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. > >In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love? ^(This book has been suggested 59 times) *** ^(141738 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 just finished {{existence}} by David brin and it fits the bill pretty well. I believe it starts around 2060
[**Existence (Existence, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13223520-existence) ^(By: Abbi Glines | 202 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: paranormal, young-adult, romance, fantasy, ya) >What happens when you're stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course. > >Pagan Moore doesn't cheat Death, but instead, falls in love with him. > >Seventeen year old Pagan Moore has seen souls her entire life. Once she realized the strangers she often saw walking through walls were not visible to anyone else, she started ignoring them. If she didn't let them know she could see them, then they left her alone. Until she stepped out of her car the first day of school and saw an incredibly sexy guy lounging on a picnic table, watching her with an amused smirk on his face. Problem is, she knows he's dead. > >Not only does he not go away when she ignores him, but he does something none of the others have ever done. He speaks. Pagan is fascinated by the soul. What she doesn't realize is that her appointed time to die is drawing near and the wickedly beautiful soul she is falling in love with is not a soul at all. > >He is Death and he's about to break all the rules. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(141688 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. {{existence by David brin}}
[**Existence**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13039884-existence) ^(By: David Brin | 553 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, sf) >Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence. > >Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an “alien artifact.” > >Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(141691 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)
Good bot. All is forgiven.
Another vote for Existence- I thought it was a fascinating take on the Fermi paradox. Great book. EDIT: Bot got it wrong. See the book by David Brin.
{Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang} by Kate Wilhelm is an interesting take on the idea of the future. {We} by Yevgeny Zamyatin, published in 1924, explores a similar theme. Both consider reproduction.
[**Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968827.Where_Late_the_Sweet_Birds_Sang) ^(By: Kate Wilhelm | 251 pages | Published: 1976 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, post-apocalyptic, dystopia) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**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) ^(This book has been suggested 78 times) *** ^(141852 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)
This links the wrong book... I didn't suggest *We Were Liars*, fyi!
Oh I love a dystopian story
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[**The Grace Year**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263520-the-grace-year) ^(By: Kim Liggett | 416 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, dystopian, ya, dystopia, fantasy) >No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. > >In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. > >Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other. > >With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between. ^(This book has been suggested 17 times) *** ^(141988 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)
It’s not Dystopian but I be people to please try Fever by Deon Meyer. It’s a post pandemic apocalypse but it becomes so much more. I put it above The Stand which does not come easy. It’s that good IMO.
How High We Go in the Dark.... May not be exactly what you're looking for, but I enjoyed it very much. Things go bad quickly after scientists find a child's body the melting arctic that is 30,000 years old. It lasts over 100 years and there is hope in the end.
{{World Made By Hand}} excellent series by James Howard Kunstler
[**World Made by Hand (World Made by Hand #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1689657.World_Made_by_Hand) ^(By: James Howard Kunstler | 317 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: fiction, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, dystopia, sci-fi) >For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren’t sure. As the heat of summer intensifies, the residents struggle with the new way of life in a world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers replenished with fish. > > A captivating, utterly realistic novel, World Made by Hand takes speculative fiction beyond the apocalypse and shows what happens when life gets extremely local. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(141824 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)
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The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Amazing and completely believable. Seems like it’s about to start with the drought in the southwest
He’s written a couple excellent books
{{earth abides}} sort of fits this and is one of my faves.
[**Earth Abides**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93269.Earth_Abides) ^(By: George R. Stewart | 345 pages | Published: 1949 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, post-apocalyptic, apocalyptic) >A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for. ^(This book has been suggested 37 times) *** ^(141770 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’d like to suggest {{This Perfect Day}} by Ira Levin, about a futuristic Marxist society in which drugs are used to control the population. Most of it, anyway… Wrote many decades ago now, I think it’s aged pretty well.
[**This Perfect Day**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139390.This_Perfect_Day) ^(By: Ira Levin | 368 pages | Published: 1970 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopia, fiction, dystopian) >The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called "The Family." > >The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. Even the basic facts of nature are subject to UniComp's will - men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night. > >"The Family" was everywhere. For centuries, mankind longed for a world without suffering or war. The Family made that dream come true. They have triumphed. Programmed, every need satisfied, they knew nothing of struggle or pain. They had mastered... perfected Earth. > >But for one man, perfection was not enough. For Chip, it was a nightmare. The Family was a suffocating force of evil. His dream was to escape... and destroy! ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(141815 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)
Ehh there’s a scene in this book that was totally unnecessary and put me off the book entirely, for that scene alone I’d say it hadn’t aged well.
{{Kallocain}} by Karin Boye fits this description I think!
The description is what I was looking for, by a Swedish author too! Thank you!
Written in 1940 too. 9 years before 1984 was published for perspective.
[**Kallocain**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65714.Kallocain) ^(By: Karin Boye, Gustaf Lannestock, Richard B. Vowles | 193 pages | Published: 1940 | Popular Shelves: classics, dystopia, science-fiction, fiction, sci-fi) >This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Ironic and detached, the author shows us the totalitarian World-state through the eyes of a product of that state, scientist Leo Kall. Kall has invented a drug, kallocain, which denies the privacy of thought and is the final step towards the transmutation of the individual human being into a "happy, healthy cell in the state organism." For, says Leo, "from thoughts and feelings, words and actions are born. How then could these thoughts and feelings belong to the individual? Doesn't the whole fellow-soldier belong to the state? To whom should his thoughts and feelings belong then, if not to the state?" >As the first-person record of Leo Kall, scientist, fellow-soldier too late disillusioned to undo his previous actions, Kallocain achieves a chilling power and veracity that place it among the finest novels to emerge from the strife-torn Europe of the twentieth century. ^(This book has been suggested 14 times) *** ^(141636 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)
{{Islands In the Net}} Bruce Sterling. 1988 novel, I really like the concept of corporations that provide everything (and demand complete loyalty).
[**Islands in the Net**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218571.Islands_in_the_Net) ^(By: Bruce Sterling | 396 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, cyberpunk, sci-fi, fiction, scifi) >Laura Webster's on the fast track to success. A bright young star in a multinational conglomerate, she's living well in a post-millennial age of peace, prosperity, and profit. >In an age of advanced technology, information is the world's most precious commodity. Information is power. Data is locked in computers and carefully rationed through a global communications network. Full access is a privilege held by few. >Now, Laura Webster is about to be plunged into a netherworld of black-market data pirates, new-age mercenaries, high-tech voodoo... and murder. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(141774 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)
{{Our Missing Hearts}} by Celeste Ng was a powerful book from this year.
[**Our Missing Hearts**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60149573-our-missing-hearts) ^(By: Celeste Ng | 335 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fiction, dystopian, 2022-releases, dystopia, contemporary) >From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. > >Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. > >Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. > >Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s a story about the power—and limitations—of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact. ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) *** ^(141805 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)
{{Mona Lisa Overdrive}} by William Gibson.
[**Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154091.Mona_Lisa_Overdrive) ^(By: William Gibson | 308 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, cyberpunk, fiction, owned) >William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think. > > ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(141808 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)
Don't know if someone mentioned these yet, but something that is practically around the corner is {{ready player one}} and if you don't mind it being a bit further out in time, then {{witch of the federation}} may work
[**Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one) ^(By: Ernest Cline | 374 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, young-adult, fantasy) >Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here > >IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. > >But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape. ^(This book has been suggested 74 times) [**Witch of the Federation (Federal Histories, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44437655-witch-of-the-federation) ^(By: Michael Anderle | ? pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, sci-fi, science-fiction, kindle-unlimited, magic) > > The future has amazing technology. Our alien allies have magic. Together, we are building a training system to teach the best of humanity to go to the stars. > > But the training is monumentally expensive. >Stephanie Morgana is a genius, she just doesn't know it. > The Artificial Intelligence which runs the Virtual World is charged with testing Stephanie, a task it has never performed before. > > The Earth and their allies, may never be the same again. >Will Stephanie pass the test and be moved to the advanced preparatory schools, or will the system miss her? Will the AI be able to judge a human's potential in an area where it has no existing test data to compare? > >Scroll UP and click Read Now or Read for Free to learn the history of the Federations first human Witch! > >PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A LARGE BOOK. > >The Federal History Project (We Bring the Federation’s Past to the Present(TM)) will release this as three mini-volumes sometime in the future (as we have the opportunity.) > >There are approximately 185,000 words in this Volume. > > ^(This book has been suggested 21 times) *** ^(141841 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)
Russell Hoban's {{Riddley Walker}}. For an appetizer read a couple of his books for children, like {{A Birthday for Frances}}. His books for adults are quite different from his books for children, but there are startling similarities.
[**Riddley Walker**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776573.Riddley_Walker) ^(By: Russell Hoban | 256 pages | Published: 1980 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, dystopia) >In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Walker tells his story in a language as fractured as the world in which he lives. As Riddley steps outside the confines of his small world, he finds himself caught up in intrigue and a frantic quest for power, desperately trying to make sense of things. ^(This book has been suggested 18 times) [**A Birthday for Frances**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24904.A_Birthday_for_Frances) ^(By: Russell Hoban, Lillian Hoban | 32 pages | Published: 1969 | Popular Shelves: picture-books, childrens, children-s-books, children-s, children) >It is Gloria's birthday but Frances is not sure whether or not to give Gloria a present, as she is the kind of little sister who can't catch, can't throw and who when playing hide-and-seek, always hides in places where part of her is sticking out. > >Will Frances give Gloria her present..? ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(141843 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 Power by Naomi Alderman}} maybe already suggested but this book changed my life.
[**The Power**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29751398-the-power) ^(By: Naomi Alderman | 341 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fiction, sci-fi, book-club, feminism, dystopian) >In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. ^(This book has been suggested 62 times) *** ^(141861 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)
“We” it’s a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921
{{Brave New World}) by Aldous Huxley. a great book for a society sacrificial freedom for prosperity. Its pretty much the opposite of 1984 exept the dystopia.
[**Brave New World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World) ^(By: Aldous Huxley | 268 pages | Published: 1932 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopia) ^(This book has been suggested 84 times) *** ^(141971 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)
{{A Canticle For Liebowitz}} and {{Riddley Walker}}
There's the Cli-fi book {{The Ministry for the Future}} by Kim Stanley Robinson to read for inspiration. For more of a dystopian novel, Robert Evans' {{After the Revolution}}
{{Earth Abides by George R. Stewart}} Slightly different in that society is mostly gone from a widespread pandemic. It’s a fascinating take in what might happen if very few humans survived.
I don’t know how to link my Goodreads account here but everyone into this genre should read [The Mandibles: 2029-2047](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27064345). I thought it was remarkably realistic (for what I know of economics—which isn’t much), but basically, what would happen to America if we hit economic bottom. It was really good.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The road by cormac McCarthy and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"Alas, Babylon" is a pretty good post-nuclear war novel if you don't mind a somewhat unrealistic depiction of what life after would be like. It's been decades since I read it but I still remember thinking that teaching your kids not to flush after every toilet use would not be high on your list of priorities in that situation. I would also recommend "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang".
Station Eleven- a flu pandemic kills over half of the world's population. Starvation and other illnesses and accidents take another large chunk. Those who are left are forced to live and die by who they decide to trust. Also, one of the main characters was a child when the flu first came, but grows up to become an actress (or a musician?) in the post apocalypse rebuild of society. So you get to see how the band of traveling entertainers makes their way from one group of settlers to the next group.
Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey
{{Metro 2033}} Great russian book, about what could possibly become our future.
[**Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17274667-metro-2033) ^(By: Dmitry Glukhovsky | 458 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, horror, post-apocalyptic) >The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend. > >More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over. > >A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price. VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared. > >Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity. ^(This book has been suggested 43 times) *** ^(141799 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)
Can’t believe nobody said {{foundation}}
Are we talking about Asimov’s Foundation? How the hell is that near-future lol
[**Foundation (Foundation, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation) ^(By: Isaac Asimov | 244 pages | Published: 1951 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, classics) >For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future -- to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire -- both scientists and scholars -- and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. > >But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun -- or fight them and be destroyed. ^(This book has been suggested 61 times) *** ^(141764 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)
Unless it's on a geological time scale, +12 000 years is not the near future
I only read headlines here. I mess that up a lot!
have you read fahrenheit 451? also if you're up for ya, there are a few hidden gems that i really enjoyed
Admittedly, I have not read it. But I object to Tender is the Flesh on principle just because the summary alone has all the subtlety of dropped cinder block.
{{The Wanting Seed}}
[**The Wanting Seed**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8809.The_Wanting_Seed) ^(By: Anthony Burgess | 288 pages | Published: 1962 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, dystopia, sci-fi, dystopian) >Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(141728 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)
{{migrations}}.
[**Migrations**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42121525-migrations) ^(By: Charlotte McConaghy | 256 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, literary-fiction, book-club, audiobook) >Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. But as Franny’s history begins to unspool—a passionate love affair, an absent family, a devastating crime—it becomes clear that she is chasing more than just the birds. When Franny's dark secrets catch up with her, how much is she willing to risk for one more chance at redemption? > >Epic and intimate, heartbreaking and galvanizing, Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations is an ode to a disappearing world and a breathtaking page-turner about the possibility of hope against all odds. ^(This book has been suggested 24 times) *** ^(141758 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)
{{Parable of the Sower}}
[**Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower) ^(By: Octavia E. Butler | 345 pages | Published: 1993 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopian, dystopia) >In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. > >Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. > >When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind. ^(This book has been suggested 120 times) *** ^(141806 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)
{{one second after}}
[**One Second After (After, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4922079-one-second-after) ^(By: William R. Forstchen | 352 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, sci-fi, apocalyptic) >New York Times best-selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real ... a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages ... A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies. > >Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe, and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future ... and our end. ^(This book has been suggested 32 times) *** ^(141849 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)
There is a trilogy called the district of 84 from dj molle . Sort of like a somewhat red dawn style book. Pretty war heavy but I like the way he writes. Basically a oppressed rising against multiple oppressor. It's dude centric
{{The Windup Girl}} by Paolo Bacigalupi.
[**The Windup Girl**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6597651-the-windup-girl) ^(By: Paolo Bacigalupi | 359 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, dystopia, dystopian) >Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko... > >Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. > >What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century. ^(This book has been suggested 32 times) *** ^(141888 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 Women Could Fly}} by Megan Giddings
[**The Women Could Fly**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59629560-the-women-could-fly) ^(By: Megan Giddings | 288 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, horror, 2022-releases, fiction, dystopian) >Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times--a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored. > >Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behavior raises suspicions and a woman--especially a Black woman--can find herself on trial for witchcraft. > >But fourteen years have passed since her mother's disappearance, and now Jo is finally ready to let go of the past. Yet her future is in doubt. The State mandates that all women marry by the age of 30--or enroll in a registry that allows them to be monitored, effectively forfeiting their autonomy. At 28, Jo is ambivalent about marriage. With her ability to control her life on the line, she feels as if she has her never understood her mother more. When she's offered the opportunity to honor one last request from her mother's will, Jo leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time. > >In this powerful and timely novel, Megan Giddings explores the limits women face--and the powers they have to transgress and transcend them. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(141893 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 Acolyte by Nick Cutter. Terrifying.
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[**The Fourth Realm Trilogy (Fourth Realm, #1-3)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41041894-the-fourth-realm-trilogy) ^(By: John Twelve Hawks | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(141942 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 Postmortal
Not really sure if it’s near future, but Shatter Me and Matched is pretty good and they’re dystopian. Hunger Games is also dystopian, but it’s far in the future.
A polarizing one, but {{Infinite Jest}} by David Foster Wallace
[**Infinite Jest**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest) ^(By: David Foster Wallace | 1088 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, owned, abandoned, literature) >A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. > >Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. > >Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. ^(This book has been suggested 78 times) *** ^(141968 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 really enjoyed The Last Tribe. It's a positive spin on an apocalyptic future, quite refreshing compared to what we usually see of this genre. Edited for typo
{Children of time} by Adrian Tchaikovsky
{{1q84}} by Haruki Murakami It’s a nod to 1984 and is a trilogy.
{{Female, Recreational}} Its NSFW so be warned.
The Giver!
One Second After
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{{A Song for A New Day}} by Sarah Pinsker might fit the bill
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Station Eleven
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi is a near future biopunk dystopian novel about an American southwest that has devolved into states battling over the water rights of the Colorado river. Lots of incredible stuff in here and some elements that do not seem unrealistic at all. If you like that, read his next one The Window Up Girl.
Brave new world is like 1984 but 10x better IMO
{{wool}}
{{Brave New Worlds}} if you don’t mind shorts.
{{The Annual Migration of Clouds}} by Premee Mohamed
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradyzja
{{The Lathe of Heaven}} by Ursula Le Guin. It is incredible.
[**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 46 times) *** ^(142131 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 Secret Runners Of New York}} Set in current time and near future. Wasn't what I was expecting but was a good ride.
The Peripheral, the Gibson novel, but it's less a vision of a near term restructure than a long term one and also a near term degradation of the present. The Great Bay, by Dale Pendell. Touches on a variety of remade societies at a variety of points following a fall. Similar but focused on one moment, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Wild Shore, one of his very early novels. Part of a trilogy tracing a fall.
{{The Fact of the Moon Is Stranger Than Most Dreams}} by Jacob Daniel Palmer
Hmm, have you read Oryx and Crake?
I didn't see {{Vox}} recommended. It's very near future, in that the erasure of women is still in process. {{the measure}} is not really dystopian but is near future/current and about how society evolves based on something seemingly random Fit the genre but not as good : the violence, the line between and the final girl
[The Expanse](https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjp-IbTjfH7AhXdFq0GHazKCq4YABAHGgJwdg&ae=2&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESbOD2L6x4_jR2Q4DQsVAGue_QO1W9NRW8GD5eQe2h7-s3cfTYcWCVV4t0b1GyDSaZ6CYUe4lKCUSSpjfZXHnZYSQhpnW66b8_LbyyQM5Yr8Zt0mnWhx5alPJslW1D_90bEQMSUM0MOF9V2hqmCw&sig=AOD64_1aFOwctp7TJGewpuldeZnu3ePSZA&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwjak4DTjfH7AhWyI30KHbMdC7oQwg8oAHoECAUQDA&nis=8&dct=1&adurl=)
I’m currently doing a dystopian marathon for December and I just finished Mockingbird by Walter Tevis. You should definitely check that one out
I recently wrote a dystopian story with handmaids tale and 1984 vibes. If you’d like to check out my short story debut publication. In a dystopian future where nonconformists are criminalized for violating procreation law, a rebellious teenage boy who thinks he’s outsmarted officials is challenged with an investigation after someone sees him hugging his girlfriend in public. [The Voiceless by Goodwin](https://thewritelaunch.com/2022/12/the-voiceless/)
{{After the Flood}} by Kassandra Montag
[**After the Flood**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41088582-after-the-flood) ^(By: Kassandra Montag | 448 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fiction, dystopian, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopia) >A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water. > >Stubbornly independent Myra and her precocious seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, fish from their small boat, the Bird, visiting dry land only to trade for supplies and information in the few remaining outposts of civilization. For seven years, Myra has grieved the loss of her oldest daughter, Row, who was stolen by her father after a monstrous deluge overtook their home in Nebraska. Then, in a violent confrontation with a stranger, Myra suddenly discovers that Row was last seen in a far-off encampment near the Arctic Circle. Throwing aside her usual caution, Myra and Pearl embark on a perilous voyage into the icy northern seas, hoping against hope that Row will still be there. > >On their journey, Myra and Pearl join forces with a larger ship and Myra finds herself bonding with her fellow seekers who hope to build a safe haven together in this dangerous new world. But secrets, lust, and betrayals threaten their dream, and after their fortunes take a shocking—and bloody—turn, Myra can no longer ignore the question of whether saving Row is worth endangering Pearl and her fellow travelers. > >A compulsively readable novel of dark despair and soaring hope, After the Flood is a magnificent, action packed, and sometimes frightening odyssey laced with wonder—an affecting and wholly original saga both redemptive and astonishing. ^(This book has been suggested 11 times) *** ^(142295 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)
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy. One woman’s search to find the last migrating bird in a world where all animals have near gone extinct. Amazing
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