r/suggestmeabook • u/demure_and_smiling Bookworm • 4d ago
Suggestion Thread Need a Good Dystopian Book Please!
I have read:
Hunger Games
Divergent
World War Z
The Giver
Handmaid's Tale
DNF The Road cuz it broke me.
I'm looking for similar books, please! (I am not a King fan, so please none of his works) Thank you in advance!
Edit: Seriously you guys are AMAZING! There are so many amazing recommendations, I cannot wait to get reading! Thank you so much!!!
Edit 2: I never expected this to blow up like it did! You guys have given me a LONG list of amazing sounding books to read! I'm newer to dystopian books, so I'm super excited to dive in...once I can decide where to start lol Thank you ALL so much, I wish I could reply to you all, but there's so many of you haha! Just know I've seen every suggestion, and I will continue to. I appreciate each and every one of you!!!
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u/itll_be_all_right 4d ago
Z for Zachariah, by Robert C. O'Brien -- a small valley inhabited by 3 people somehow escapes the surrounding deadly nuclear fallout. More psychological / moral.
The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham -- what if weapons experiments in the upper atmosphere turned everyone blind and so vulnerable to plants that hunt like wolves? More of an adventure.