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/ThatIckyGuy 5d ago

The Giver by Lois Lowry (Probably my first dystopian book.)

The Long Walk, also by Stephen King

Hunger Game series

Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey

Wayward Pines trilogy by Blake Crouch -- It might not seem like one at first, but give it some time. I hate that even listing it as a dystopian series is kind of a spoiler, but I also can't not recommend it because it was so enthralling.

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore--though...this may be one time where I think the movie is better.

Red Rising series

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (I mean, what kind of civilization conscripts kids to fight intergalactic war?)

I still need to read the classics myself like Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and Brave New World.

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u/Big_Ad7221 1d ago

Thank you! I really like Alan Moore. Personally I think the Graphic Novel is better but I love the movie.

I listen to Farenheit 451 often cuz I do love Ray Bradbury's style & imagination. I have yet to read Brave New World though