Hey there! So I’m looking at adding some books that are a warning of dystopic futures to my collection. To get an idea of what I mean, here’s my collection so far:
– Fahrenheit 451
– 1984
– Brave New World
– It Can’t Happen Here
– Handmaid’s Tale
I’m open to suggestions in that same vein, so please recommend away!
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Chain Gang All Stars may be a good book. It’s one of my new favorites.
Idk if Vonnegut may be too fantasy/sci Fi for you but there is political and societal commentary in his books.
Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
Severance – Ling Ma
Our Missing Hearts – Celeste Ng
Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
Kallocain might interest you, it’s a dystopian novel written by a Swedish female author in 1940, so right as World War II was kicking off. It falls almost exactly between Huxley and Orwell. I really enjoyed it & went on to read her other books!
*The School for Good Mothers* by Jessamine Chan is about the harm of demanding so much more from mothers than from fathers.
*Never Let Me Go* by Kazuo Ishiguro is about treating a certain class of people as not “real” humans.
*A Clockwork Orange* by Anthony Burgess is about solving all problems with brutality.