Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Bluesky Threads I’ve already read and love: A Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Clockwork Orange, Handmaids Tale, 1984, The Giver (and the rest of the Omnibus) Hunger Games, and more recently Altered Carbon and Tender Is the Flesh by Lady_Dobuery
Ahjumawi on February 5, 2026 4:18 pm Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, and the second part, Parable of the Talents.
Butterball-24601 on February 5, 2026 4:39 pm Pale Grey Dot, by Don Miasek. Cyberpunk/space opera dystopia.
Radiobob214 on February 5, 2026 4:39 pm Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng The Last Girl Scout, by Natalie Ironside
JackarooDeva on February 5, 2026 5:21 pm The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner is a bleak novel about ecological catastrophe.
Aitoroketto on February 5, 2026 5:29 pm Ten of my favorites: In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster The Road by Cormac McCarthy Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway Watership Down by Richard Adams Blindness by José Saramago Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by PKD Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
peppurrjackjungle on February 5, 2026 5:57 pm Battle Royale by koushun takami The memory police by yoko ogawa Never let me go by kazou ishiguro The wayward pines series by Blake crouch
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, and the second part, Parable of the Talents.
Pale Grey Dot, by Don Miasek. Cyberpunk/space opera dystopia.
Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng
The Last Girl Scout, by Natalie Ironside
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner is a bleak novel about ecological catastrophe.
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Ten of my favorites:
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Blindness by José Saramago
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by PKD
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
Kallocain by Karin Boye
*Battle Royale* by Koushun Takami
*The Memory Police* by Yōko Ogawa
Battle Royale by koushun takami
The memory police by yoko ogawa
Never let me go by kazou ishiguro
The wayward pines series by Blake crouch