I’ve been SERIOUSLY in the mood for some Dystopian books.
I, like most teenage girls, read a lot of Dystopian books back when Divergent, The Hunger Games, Shatter Me, and Maze Runner were new. I’ve really been focused primarily on the Fantasy genre and really want to read some Dystopian books. I prefer adult series but don’t mind YA! I HIGHLY prefer books with romance in them but it can definitely be a subplot and doesn’t have to be the main focus.
Here’s some I’ve had on my radar or have read outside of those listed above.
1. The Order by Katerina St Clair
2. Us Dark Few by Alexis Patton
3. Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
4. The Gaill by Lo Meyer
5. Axiom by Madison Rose
6. Angelfall series by Susan Ee
7. The Outsider by S Renea
8. Wool by Hugh Howey
9. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
10. Into the Skies by Kay Humphreys
11. Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Please throw any suggestions you have my way!
by Taiya_785
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The Atlantis Grail series by Vera Nazarian. (Dystopian/Sci fi).
The Water Knife by Paola Bacigalupi
The Oryx and Crake series by Margaret Atwood
Partials (book 1)
Fragments(book 2)
Ruins (book 3)
by Dan Wells
The “big three” of dystopian fiction are We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell. People also sometimes add Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury to that list.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s *Never Let Me Go* and *Klara and the Sun* are the two adult books I read recently that best scratched that old YA dystopian itch. The thing that I loved about those books as a teenager was the sense of dawning dread you’d get as you learned more about how the world functioned and Ishiguro is soooo good at that.
I don’t know if you’ve read it or not but you might try The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. It’s stark dystopian, and it will tear you up. Like, where I finished it and just had to sit for a little while in silence.
Another that I thought was really good was Fahrenheit 451.
I enjoyed Wool and Scythe on your list!
Cormack McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Agustina Bazterrica are some goodies.
These aren’t fantasy, but some of my favorite dystopian:
* Station Eleven- Emily St. John Mandel
* Into the Forest- Jean Hegland
* The Dustlands Trilogy- Moira Young
* Moon of the Crusted Snow- Waubgeshig Rice
* How High we go in the Dark- Sequoia Nagamatsu
* Life as we Knew it Trilogy- Susan Beth Pfeffer
Genesis echo by d. Hollis Anderson
“Severance” by Ling Ma