Any dystopian books I should read? I’ve read The Giver series. I’m reading Divergent.
Any dystopian books I should read? I’ve read The Giver series. I’m reading Divergent.
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Any dystopian books I should read? I’ve read The Giver series. I’m reading Divergent.
1984, brave new world, hunger games, city of ember,
The 5th Wave Series
This was very good!
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@Howard I was just wondering if this was a series! Do you know how many are in the series? Is the 5th Wave the first book? Do the aliens win?!?! Nevermind, I’ll google all that. lol
5th is the first, I believe there are 3 books.
I really love Delirium by Lauren Oliver ☺️
I love this !!!
Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
Came to recommend that myself.
Me too! Haha
I actually haven’t read these. Can someone tell me more about what they’re about? @Courtney?
It’s an awesome series about children who get a procedure done to become “pretties” when they turn 14 and they have a “perfect” life with riches, parties, and pretty bodies. A group of “uglies” decide to fight against becoming pretties and their adventures. It’s really entertaining and well written. It was one of the first books that got me hooked and I couldn’t put down. I love this series!
Hunger games, three dark crowns series ( it starts off really slow and confusing but wow that ending! ),the first life series by Gena showalter, The red queen series, and Eve series by Anna carey
I love Gena Showalter
Have you read “Canticle for Leibowitz?” Very different.
The Passage Trilogy
I’ve been wanting to get to this series. I have the first one. I’m not sure what’s keeping me from reading it
Probably the length! It’s very fast-paced and exciting.
Just be aware that the author has decided to make the ‘sequel’ into 2 books. The first was fantastic, but the 2nd reads like a sell out. It makes me sad when authors go for the money (multiple book route).
I liked all 3
The Girl With All the Gifts
That is one freaking scary book.
Freaky for sure.
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@Larry have you read the sequel to the girls with all the gifts? I just saw it the other day.
@Brittany not yet. i am going to have to check it out. thank you.
The Boy on the Bridge, $2.99 today.
Atlas Shrugged
The Wool series by Hugh Howey
Margaret atwood’s ‘Oryx and Crake’, ‘Year of the Flood’
Matched
I own these too. Very good!
the handmaid’s tale
This one too!
The maze runner series
Uglies series – Scott Westerfeld
Matched – Allie Condie
Seconding the Uglies series it’s one of my favorite series of books out there.
The Eve Trilogy!!!! Freaking amazing story!!
Ohh…I haven’t read these yet but wanted to. What is the basic story line for these?
Penryn and the End of Days series by Susan Ee. Fighting angels after Armageddon. Has moments of comedy and romance, but mostly action-y.
Shatter Me trilogy, The Chemical Garden trilogy, I would also recomend Delirum trilogy, and Under the Never Sky trilogy!
I love the Chemical Garden trilogy (and the Delirium trilogy) Never read the others
I would highly recommend the Shatter Me trilogy, and I love meeting someone else with the same taste in books?
Sweet. I saw the picture of your boys on your page. Very cute. Couldn’t find any of you though
It Can‘t Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis), The Accusation (Bandi)
The Mazerunner.
The head hunger games..
https://www.silverpetticoatreview.com/2015/03/25/15-must-read-ya-dystopian-novels/
https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel-ebook/dp/B002LATV16/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1511803731&sr=1-1&keywords=one+second+after
I thought you guys only ate donuts.
Snow Crash. It’s sci-fi I. The sense that it takes place in the future and parts of the story are in a virtual reality known as The Metaverse. I’m reading it now and loving it.
The selection series – Kiera Cass. Soooooo gooood!
The Bees by Laline Paull and The Sudden Appearance Of Hope by Claire North
Neither are your “typical” dystopian, but they are unique twists on the the genre.
Now I want to read all of these lol! Saving so I’ll remember them all!
This is the best place for book recommendations!!
I’m going to resort back to this as well. 🙂
Catch the classics if you haven’t: 1984 by Orwell, Brave New World by Huxley, On the Beach by Shute.
Ashfall!!!!! The Silo series.
I’m reading a fun one. Its not dystopian but it has that feel a bit in that it takes place in a tiny Montana town. Its about a boy who can conjure up superheroes. Sugarbeet Falls by Ryan Acra.
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen. Not really dystopian in the classic sense, but set in a rural town during the influenza pandemic.
I really loved Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel!! Thought it was brilliant.
Hunger Games!
How about some older ones? Brave New World; 1984; Fahrenheit 451.
Reboot and Rebel are really good futuristic dystopian books! It’s a duology by Amy Tintera
I love these!
Right? They’re so good!
The Handmaids Tale and 1984
Legend Trilogy by Marie Lu!!!!
I don’t know if the Magicians counts as dystopian
I’m not a big dystopia fan so not much to suggest but I did read the Queen of the Tearling series and it was fantastic. You have to read all three to find out what really happened in the beginning and who the people really are and how they are connected. I really enjoyed it. Also, The Road if you are up for more adult level? Not that you aren’t an adult, lol, but a lot of the suggestions were for what appear to be young adult titles so I wasn’t sure if that was what you liked. Does it seem to anyone else that young adult offers more in the Dystopian genre? Just a point to ponder.
I don’t care if their young adult. Lol. I like adult too.
No judgy here, I’m 39 and can love a good kids book any day of the week. lol Former children’s Librarian so…lol I here Ready Player One was a good one too but haven’t read that one.
Oh, that was Cormac McCarthy for the Road if you were interested. ?
Blind Faith is on my list!
By which author? There’s several.
Ben Elton ?
Ready Player One
Aghhh! Divergent is amazing❤️❤️. Hunger Games, The Handmaids Tale, Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Selection series, the Uglies series. They’re all so great!
1984 by George Orwell, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Iron Heel by Jack London, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Watch the Handmaids tale….you wont regret it!
I’m not a huge dystopian fan but I loved Hunger Games and am sort of enjoying Dorothy Must Die.
Following
Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard is decent
Ohhh The Fallen Worlds trilogy!!!! Add me if you’re a dystopian lover. I adore books like that. Also read Monument 14 trilogy.
Absolutely!
The Stand
Glad I found this again:
The Second Angel by Phillip Kerr. For the most part startlingly believable, which makes it most disturbing.
A future where clean blood is currency, technology rules, the Moon has a penal colony and tourist traps, and AI is on the verge of a singularity.
Maze Runner series
Alas, Babylon is really good
The last orphans
Zero gravity. It’s a new YA book and it’s interesting and funny
Anthem Ayn Rand
This one is like Animal Farm, in some ways: short, like a nursery tale (or romance), so simple as to have almost lost it . . . that last unlike Animal Farm.
1984, Farenheit 451, Brave new world…and other classics.
The Country Saga.
Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake series.
This is the novel that inspired George Orwell to write 1984…
A good read. I’d forgotten that one.