The Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (I haven’t read this one yet, but my gf says it is a great one for this category.)
The Hunger Games series (lighter, but definitely dystopian)
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I went down a Huxley rabbit hole after BNW and did not regret it. My favorite was probably Island.
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Slaugtherhouse Five maybe
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Along the lines of what you’ve enjoyed so far I would add The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Blindness by Jose Saramago, and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood’s *Handmaid’s Tale*
*Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep?” Philip K Dick
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Hand maids tale
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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**84k** by Claire North (the title is, in part, a nod to one of its inspirations, *1984*)
**Silo** trilogy by Hugh Howey (first book is called *Wool*)
**The Ferryman** by Justin Cronin
**Golden State** by Ben H. Winters
**Handmaid’s Tale** by Margaret Atwood
**The Trial** by Franz Kafka. This one is a bit more inscrutable and bizarre than the books you mentioned, but is definitely in that same realm of dystopian-y, literary warnings about possible futures. Here, the main character is arrested and brought to trial, but he (and you) never finds out the crime he’s accused of.
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You might enjoy Julia (newer book that imagines 1984 from Julia’s perspective)
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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* Yevgeny Zamyatin: We
* Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
* Octavia Butler: Parable of the Sower
* Margaret Atwood: Handmaid’s Tale or Oryx and Crake
* William Golding: Lord of the flies
* Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
* Malka Older: Infomacracy
* Alan Moore: V for Vendetta
* Usula K LeGuin: The Dispossessed
* PD James: The Children of Men
* Mandel: Station Eleven
* McCarthy: The Road
* Carey: The Girl with All the Gifts
* Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl
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The Penultimate Truth, Philip K. Dick
The Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (I haven’t read this one yet, but my gf says it is a great one for this category.)
The Hunger Games series (lighter, but definitely dystopian)
I went down a Huxley rabbit hole after BNW and did not regret it. My favorite was probably Island.
Slaugtherhouse Five maybe
Along the lines of what you’ve enjoyed so far I would add The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Blindness by Jose Saramago, and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s *Handmaid’s Tale*
*Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep?” Philip K Dick
Hand maids tale
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
**84k** by Claire North (the title is, in part, a nod to one of its inspirations, *1984*)
**Silo** trilogy by Hugh Howey (first book is called *Wool*)
**The Ferryman** by Justin Cronin
**Golden State** by Ben H. Winters
**Handmaid’s Tale** by Margaret Atwood
**The Trial** by Franz Kafka. This one is a bit more inscrutable and bizarre than the books you mentioned, but is definitely in that same realm of dystopian-y, literary warnings about possible futures. Here, the main character is arrested and brought to trial, but he (and you) never finds out the crime he’s accused of.
You might enjoy Julia (newer book that imagines 1984 from Julia’s perspective)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
* Yevgeny Zamyatin: We
* Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
* Octavia Butler: Parable of the Sower
* Margaret Atwood: Handmaid’s Tale or Oryx and Crake
* William Golding: Lord of the flies
* Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
* Malka Older: Infomacracy
* Alan Moore: V for Vendetta
* Usula K LeGuin: The Dispossessed
* PD James: The Children of Men
* Mandel: Station Eleven
* McCarthy: The Road
* Carey: The Girl with All the Gifts
* Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl