I'm looking for some solid dystopian recommendations. I keep running into too many zombies and love triangles. I absolutely loved the Giver and Life as We Knew It. The more cross over with sci-fi the better. I loved Artemis by Andy Weir. Any dystopian/apocalypse recommendations are welcome!
by fancy-slut
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Well first I just have to express my joy at someone mentioning Artemis. It get’s overshadowed by the Martian and Project Hail Mary so much that it’s like people have forgotten it exists. No, it’s not as good, but that leaves a lot of room to be a fine read!
I’d recommend Children of Time.
Check out Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. What’s so chilling about this book is the way there are still elements of every day life as America slides into a land of savages and scavengers.
If you’re looking for more sci fi, check out Dawn (also Octavia Butler) about benevolent aliens who are trying to help a group of humans survive a post apocalyptic scenario by mixing their dna with ours. Great themes about building a fair society and how far you can change your physiology and still be called human
If you are interested in diversifying your reading check out this list of [dystopian books](https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/books/genres-by-name/dystopia) written by authors from all countries around the world.
*The Last Policeman* trilogy by Ben H Winter. An extinction-level asteroid is due to hit Earth in 6 months, and people respond in different but very realistic ways to this crisis. The protagonist is a policeman who insists on investigating a murder case even though everyone around him is telling him there’s no point.
This is my genre!
***Bird Box*** and ***Malorie*** by Josh Malerman. Something outside makes people psychotic and homicidal if they see it. High tension.
***The Dog Stars*** by Peter Heller. A man patrols the Colorado front range in a Cessna after most of the world has died off from a superflu.
***The Fireman*** by Joe Hill. An apocalypse where people spontaneously combust.
***Hollow Kingdom*** and ***Feral Creatures*** by Kira Buxton. Yes, this one has zombies, but it’s different. The whole story is told from the point of view of a profane domesticated crow named Shit-Turd. It’s honestly quite charming.
***The Rampart Trilogy*** by M.R. Carey. A post-apocalyptic world with deadly new forms of flora and fauna, where humanity has reverted to a pre-industrial society and remaining tech is used to create a social hierarchy.
***The Road*** by Cormac McCarthy. A father & son scavenge their way across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Pulitzer Prize winner. Bleak.
***The Silo Saga*** by Hugh Howey. A small civilization lives in an underground bunker following an apocalypse.
***Survivor Song*** by Paul Tremblay. An advanced form of rabies puts the world under quarantine.
***Wanderers*** by Chuck Wendig. A mysterious apocalyptic contagion turns a growing number of people into mindless sleepwalkers.
***Wayward Pines*** Trilogy by Blake Crouch. A Secret Service agent investigates a missing persons case in a small Idaho town where everything is too good to be true.
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandell