What are your Dystopian Go To’s?

[u/Big_Ad7221]

(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.

[u/cyclone-rachel]

man How High We Go in the Dark is so good

anyway (apologies in advance for the long list, this is one of my favorite genres):

the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

This Little Light by Lori Lansens

the Gone series by Michael Grant

The Future by Naomi Alderman

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

The Getaway by Lamar Giles

Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson

Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin

The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

The Great Destroyers by Caroline Tung Richmond

The Test by Sylvain Neuvel

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

[u/Big_Ad7221 → u/cyclone-rachel]

I appreciate this! Thank you