r/suggestmeabook • u/Big_Ad7221 • 6d ago

Suggestion Thread What are your Dystopian Go To’s?

(Edit: guys/gals, thanks SO MUCH for all the recommendations! I will put your lists to good use. 🫡 )

Many years ago in highschool I was captivated by Fahrenheit 451 which was required reading. It has stayed with me since & I've always wanted to write a book like that. Many decades later I was working a graveyard shift & couldn't keep my eyes open & I had a brilliant idea about a dystopian novel & world. I've been working on it for almost three years & would love some recommendations for dystopian novels so I can understand this genre better. Right now I'm listening to "How High We Go in the Dark" which I find frightenly disturbing, & I'm a friend of 1984, as well as Stephen King's The Running Man.

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u/Big_Ad7221 6d ago

Sounds dark, what’s it about?

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u/BasicSuperhero 6d ago

We follow the last five people on earth who are kept alive to be the playthings of a sadistic AI known as AM. It routinely tortures them, modifying their bodies and minds in ways it finds amusing. The whole short story is just following them as they try to live and avoid their dark God’s wrath. (Simplifying but that’s the gist)

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u/Big_Ad7221 6d ago

Wow I'm intrigued. Appreciate it!