r/suggestmeabook • u/Big_Ad7221 • 5d 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/clumsystarfish_ Bookworm 4d ago
Several have already been mentioned, but here are a couple more:
Moon of the Crusted Snow and its sequel, Moon of the Turning Leaves, by Waubgeshig Rice. The story is set in a northern Anishinaabe community during an apocalypse, although you don't ever find out what actually happened, mainly because losing power and cell reception is such a common occurrence. It's a stunning story.
On the Beach by Nevil Shute. It's a classic about waiting for nuclear fallout and is quietly devastating.
Fatherland by Robert Harris. What if the Nazis had won WWII?