I've read a lot of dystopian books, Maze Runner, Hunger Games, 1984, Divergent, Chaos Walking. One of my favorite books ever is Cell 7. (Yes I know I should read Fahrenheit 451) by Kortal-Mombat Related: Looking for a broad overview of the Renaissance and rediscovery of the classics and its impact on the world today Books similar to Crichton’s Sphere A book that feels like Stranger Things? Suggest me a good book self-help about managing stress Funny audiobook for a road trip
Prof_Rain_King on July 6, 2025 2:37 pm The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil Imagine reading about the genocide of the Muppets, and that’s essentially what you’re getting here.
SourPatchKidding on July 6, 2025 2:54 pm Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid’s Tale. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Giver. Never Let Me Go.
Crazy_Neat721 on July 6, 2025 3:03 pm The Rain Artist by Claire Rudy Foster. Bleak, dystopian, magical.
penalty-venture on July 6, 2025 3:20 pm *The Giver* gets left off this list of classics a lot, I think because it’s considered a children’s novel, but it is an absolute masterpiece.
Rabbitscooter on July 6, 2025 3:24 pm How about *We”* (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin – One of the earliest dystopian novels, and considered influential in the genre.
Hndlbrrrrr on July 6, 2025 3:29 pm Fall; Or Dodge in Hell is a story about the creation of digital society inside a Balkanized dystopian America.
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Children of Men. The Handmaid’s Tale.
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Imagine reading about the genocide of the Muppets, and that’s essentially what you’re getting here.
Brave New World is worth a read too.
American War by Omar El Akkad
Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid’s Tale. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Giver. Never Let Me Go.
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
The Rain Artist by Claire Rudy Foster. Bleak, dystopian, magical.
*The Giver* gets left off this list of classics a lot, I think because it’s considered a children’s novel, but it is an absolute masterpiece.
How about *We”* (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin – One of the earliest dystopian novels, and considered influential in the genre.
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Fall; Or Dodge in Hell is a story about the creation of digital society inside a Balkanized dystopian America.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.