“What are the best Dystopian books of all-time?” We looked at 42 “Best Dystopian” book lists and found 424 different titles so we could answer that very question.
Now that we are living in an Orwellian “Alternative Facts” world, the books on this list are a little less canary in the coal mine and more autopsy report for a bunch of dead coal miners. Not sure if that metaphor completely checks out, but the point is, a lot of these books hit pretty close to home.
Our Dystopian book list is one of the largest articles we have ever done. With books from 42 different lists and over 400 unique titles, there’s bound to be something here for everyone. The top 59 books, all appearing on 5 or more lists, are ranked below by the number of articles they appeared on with summaries, images, and links. The remaining 365 books, enough to read one a day for the next year, as well as the lists we used, can be found alphabetically at the bottom of the page.
If dystopian books aren’t your thing, be sure to check back here on Thursday when we will have our “Best Utopian Books of All-Time“.
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I seek to preach into the ears of the able and rich and powerful the great truth that neglect of the sufferings of their fellows, indifference to the great bond of brotherhood which lies at the base of Christianity, and blind, brutal and degrading worship of mere wealth, must—given time and pressure enough—eventuate in the overthrow of society and the destruction of civilization.
Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.
“In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “”Ender”” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut–young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender’s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. “
“Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said grapples with many of the themes Philip K. Dick is best known for— identity, altered reality, drug use, and dystopia—in a rollicking chase story that earned the novel the John W. Campbell Award and nominations for the Hugo and Nebula.
Jason Taverner—world-famous talk show host and man-about-town—wakes up one day to find that no one knows who he is—including the vast databases of the totalitarian government. And in a society where lack of identification is a crime, Taverner has no choice but to go on the run with a host of shady characters, including crooked cops and dealers of alien drugs. But do they know more than they are letting on? And just how can a person’s identity be erased overnight?”
In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what’s happened. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day. It’s a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: on your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else. . . .
“What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic’s highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country’s most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.
From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths – until the day June’s brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family’s survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias’s death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.”
“The world is crowded. Far too crowded. Its starving billions live on lentils, soya beans, and ―if they’re lucky―the odd starving rat.
In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone….
Acclaimed on its original publication in 1966, Make Room! Make Room! was adapted into the movie Soylent Green in 1973, starring Charlton Heston along with Edward G. Robinson in his last role.”
Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of “printed, bound media artifacts” (aka books), meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. Could falling in love redeem a planet falling apart?
The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she’s sure it holds a secret that will save the city. She and her friend Doon must race to figure out the clues before the lights go out on Ember forever!
In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls in the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life—and the entire future of humanity—is about to be decoded and reprogrammed…
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
“n a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George’s dreams for his own purposes.
The Lathe of Heaven is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity’s self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.”
A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.
“Anderson Lake is AgriGen’s Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories.
Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. Emiko is not human; she is an engineered being, grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in this chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.
What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.”
The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called “The Family.“ The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp’s will―men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night.
“What if you knew exactly when you’d die? The first book of The Chemical Garden Trilogy.
By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males born with a lifespan of 25 years, and females a lifespan of 20 years–leaving the world in a state of panic. Geneticists seek a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.
When Rhine is sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Yet her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement; her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next; and Rhine has no way to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. “
“In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family’s farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Luke has never been to school. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.
Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family’s farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside.”
“Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twenty-three international bestsellers have ranged from the beloved Shannara series to stories that tread a much darker path. Armageddon’s Children is a new creation–the perfect opportunity for readers unfamiliar with Brooks’s previous work to experience an author at the height of his considerable storytelling powers. It is a gripping chronicle of a once-familiar world now spun shockingly out of control, in which an extraordinary few struggle to salvage hope in the face of terrifying chaos.
Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family’s slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization’s downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.”
“In Kristen Simmons’s Article 5, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned.
The Bill of Rights has been revoked and replaced with the Moral Statutes.
There are no more police-instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior-instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don’t come back.
Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren’t always this way. Living with her rebellious single mother, it’s hard for her to forget that people weren’t always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. That life in the United States used to be different.”
Koushun Takami’s notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan—where it became a runaway best seller—Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world.
“In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn’t about to make the same mistake.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the Wilds who lives under the government’s radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?”
Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press.
“In 2116, it is against the law to live beyond the age of twenty-one years. When the crystal flower in the palm of your hand turns from red to black, you have reached your Lastday and you must report to a Sleepshop for processing. But the human will to survive is strong—stronger than any mere law.
Logan 3 is a Sandman, an enforcer who hunts down those Runners who refuse to accept Deep Sleep. The day before Logan’s palmflower shifts to black, a Runner accidentally reveals that he was racing toward a goal: Sanctuary. With this information driving him forward, Logan 3 assumes the role of the hunted and becomes a Runner.”
In a world struggling back from the brink of apocalypse, life is harsh. And for Elspeth Gordie, it is also dangerous. That’s because Elspeth has a secret: she is a Misfit, born with mysterious mental abilities that she must keep hidden under threat of death. And her worries only multiply when she is exiled to the mountain compound known as Obernewtyn, where—for all her talents—Elspeth may finally and truly be out of her depth. Then she learns she’s not the only one concealing secrets at Obernewtyn.
“No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own. After a lifetime without freedom, she’s finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time—and to find a future with the one boy she thought she’d lost forever.
In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a riveting dystopian world, a thrilling superhero story, and an unforgettable heroine.”
“WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES?
Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed. She has left her boyfriend, friends–and planet–behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri-Earth, three hundred years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed’s scheduled landing, cryo chamber 42 is mysteriously unplugged, and Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber.
Someone tried to murder her.”
It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for example, the word “I” has disappeared from the language).
Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy…to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction…to the philosopher who becomes a pirate…to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad…to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels.
“A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.”
“In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world’s digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator’s obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade’s going to survive, he’ll have to win—and confront the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.”
“Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.
Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.”
In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, and tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.
Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in animal farm his spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy brilliantly highlight his stark message.
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander’s face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham’s face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it’s a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she’s destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can’t stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society’s infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
“The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace…
Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.”
“The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God’s creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much singing of hymns. Abnormal humans (who are not really human) are also condemned to destruction—unless they succeed in fleeing to the Fringes, that Wild Country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable and the devil does his work. David grows up ringed by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.
At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce h im to a new, hitherto unimagined world of freedom.”
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.
Ben Richards is a desperate man. With no job, no money, no way out, and a young daughter in need of proper medical attention, he must turn to the only possibility of striking it rich in this near-future dystopian America: participating in the ultra-violent TV programming of the government-sanctioned Games Network. Ben soon finds himself selected as a contestant on the biggest and the best that the Games Network has to offer: “The Running Man,” a no-holds-barred thirty-day struggle to stay alive as public enemy number one, relentlessly hunted by an elite strike force bent on killing him as quickly as possible in front of an audience all-too eager to see that happen. It means a billion dollars in prize money if he can live for the next month. No one has ever survived longer than eight days. But desperation can push a person do things they never thought possible—and Ben Richards is willing to go the distance in this ultimate game of life and death….
One choice can transform you. Beatrice Prior’s society is divided into five factions—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). Beatrice must choose between staying with her Abnegation family and transferring factions. Her choice will shock her community and herself. But the newly christened Tris also has a secret, one she’s determined to keep hidden, because in this world, what makes you different makes you dangerous.
Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.
“When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.
Outside the towering stone walls that surround them is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.
Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying: Remember. Survive. Run.”
In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called “unwinding.” Unwinding ensures that the child’s life doesn’t “technically” end by transplanting all the organs in the child’s body to various recipients. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound.
In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It’s a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil.
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire” them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force.
“From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. “
The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.
Set in the future, “The Iron Heel” describes a world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a powerful Oligarchy that retains control through terror. A manuscript by rebel Avis Everhard is recovered in an even more distant future, and analyzed by scholar Anthony Meredith. Published in 1908, Jack London’s multi-layered narrative is an early example of the dystopian novel, and its vision of the future proved to be eerily prescient of the violence and fascism that marked the initial half of the 20th century.
In Tally Youngblood’s world, looks matter. She lives in a society created to function with perfect-looking people who never have a chance to think for themselves. And she’s tired of it. First as an ugly, then a pretty, and finally a special, Tally takes down the social infrastructure. And then, a generation later, a world obsessed with fame and instant celebrity—and filled with extras—will reap the consequences.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
“First published in 1895, the novel follows the adventures of a hypothetical Time Traveller who journeys into the future to find that humanity has evolved into two races: the peaceful Eloi — vegetarians who tire easily — and the carnivorous, predatory Morlocks.
After narrowly escaping from the Morlocks, the Time Traveller undertakes another journey even further into the future where he finds the earth growing bitterly cold as the heat and energy of the sun wane. Horrified, he returns to the present, but soon departs again on his final journey.”
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.
A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess’s nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends’ social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex to “redeem” him, the novel asks, “At what cost?”
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, “The Hunger Games,” a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed.
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian with an introduction by Clarence Brown. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful ‘Benefactor’, the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity – until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown’s brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years’ suppression.
Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.
“Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.”
Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is his masterpiece. From the author of The Doors of Perception, Island, and countless other works of fiction, non-fiction, philosophy, and poetry, comes this powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations. Brave New World remains absolutely relevant to this day as both a cautionary dystopian tale in the vein of the George Orwell classic 1984, and as thought-provoking, thoroughly satisfying entertainment.
“Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now….”
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
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| 60 | Alongside Night | J. Neil Schulman | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
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| 61 | Ape and Essence | Aldous Huxley | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 62 | Bend Sinister | Vladimir Nabokov | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 63 | Facial Justice | L. P. Hartley | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 64 | Feed | M.T. Anderson | Greg Hickey |
| Barnes & Noble | |||
| Bart’s Bookshelf | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 65 | Gun, with Occasional Music | Jonathan Lethem | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 66 | High-Rise | J. G. Ballard | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 67 | I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Best Science Fiction Books | |||
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Pop Crunch | |||
| 68 | Kallocain | Karin Boye | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 69 | Nova Express | William S. Burroughs | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 70 | One | David Karp | Greg Hickey |
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
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| 71 | Stand on Zanzibar | John Brunner | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 72 | The Bar Code Tattoo | Suzanne Weyn | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 73 | The Female Man | Joanna Russ | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Best Science Fiction Books | |||
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Stylist | |||
| 74 | The Host | Stephanie Meyer | Deseret News |
| Wikipedia | |||
| Goodreads | |||
| Why To Read | |||
| 75 | The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer | Barnes & Noble |
| Read It Forward | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 76 | The Jagged Orbit | John Brunner | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 77 | The Knife of Never Letting Go | Patrick Ness | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Goodreads | |||
| Bart’s Bookshelf | |||
| 78 | The Penultimate Truth | Philip K. Dick | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 79 | The Republic of the Future | Anna Bowman Dodd | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 80 | The Trial | Franz Kafka, | Ink Tank |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| Flavorwire | |||
| 81 | The White Mountains | John Christopher | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| The Ranting dragon | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 82 | War with the Newts | Karel Čapek | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 83 | Wool | Hugh Howey | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Why To Read | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| (Books Appear On 3 Lists Each) | |||
| 84 | Altered Carbon | Richard K. Morgan | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Best Science Fiction Books | |||
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 85 | Book Of The New Sun | Gene Wolfe | Best Science Fiction Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Pop Crunch | |||
| 86 | Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins | Deseret News |
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 87 | Genesis | Bernard Beckett | Greg Hickey |
| Bart’s Bookshelf | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 88 | How I Live Now | Meg Rosoff | The Huffington Post |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Bart’s Bookshelf | |||
| 89 | Jennifer Government | Max Barry | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 90 | Mockingjay | Suzanne Collins | Deseret News |
| Wikipedia | |||
| Goodreads | |||
| 91 | Partials | Dan Wells | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| The Ranting dragon | |||
| 92 | Pirate Cinema | Cory Doctorow | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| The Ranting dragon | |||
| 93 | Red Rising | Pierce Brown | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Goodreads | |||
| 94 | Shades of Grey | Jasper Fforde | Greg Hickey |
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 95 | Swastika Night | Katharine Burdekin | Greg Hickey |
| Wikipedia | |||
| The Culture Trip | |||
| 96 | That Hideous Strength | CS Lewis | Pop Crunch |
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 97 | The 5th Wave | Rick Yancey | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| Popsugar | |||
| 98 | The Drowned World | J. G. Ballard | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| ShortList | |||
| 99 | The Forest of Hands and Teeth | Carrie Ryan | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| Bart’s Bookshelf | |||
| 100 | The Leftovers | Tom Perrotta | The Huffington Post |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 101 | The Machine Stops | E. M. Forster | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| Interesting Literature | |||
| 102 | The Passage | Justin Cronin | Read Brightly |
| Wikipedia | |||
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 103 | The Sheep Look Up | John Brunner | Greg Hickey |
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 104 | The Sleeper Awakes | H. G. Wells | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Interesting Literature | |||
| 105 | The Wanting Seed | Anthony Burgess | Greg Hickey |
| Wikipedia | |||
| The Culture Trip | |||
| 106 | Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat | Andrez Bergen | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| 107 | Under the Never Sky | Veronica Rossi | Wikipedia |
| Popsugar | |||
| Goodreads | |||
| 108 | Walk To the End of the World | Suzy McKee Charnas | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 109 | Woman on the Edge of Time | Marge Piercy | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| 110 | World War Z | Max Brooks | Read It Forward |
| Nothingintherulebook | |||
| Pop Crunch | |||
| (Books Appear On 2 Lists Each) | |||
| 111 | A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick | Greg Hickey |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 112 | A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation, in the Year of Our Lord | Jerome B. Holgate | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 113 | After The Event | T.A Williams | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 114 | Allegiant | Veronica Roth | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 115 | Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 116 | Bar Code Rebellion | Suzanne Weyn | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 117 | Blindness | José Saramago | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 118 | Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | Bust |
| Nothingintherulebook | |||
| 119 | Champion | Marie Lu | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 120 | Cinder | Marissa Meyer | Barnes & Noble |
| Goodreads | |||
| 121 | City of Bohane | Kevin Barry | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 122 | Contagious | Jacqueline Druga | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 123 | Crossed | Ally Condie | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 124 | Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 125 | Day of the Oprichnik | Vladimir Sorokin | Wikipedia |
| Flavorwire | |||
| 126 | Erewhon | Samuel Butler | Wikipedia |
| Interesting Literature | |||
| 127 | Extras | Scott Westerfeld | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 128 | Fatherland | Robert Harris | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 129 | Floodland | Marcus Sedgwick | Bart’s Bookshelf |
| Scholastic | |||
| 130 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | The Top Tens |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 131 | Harrison Bergeron | Kurt Vonnegut | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 132 | If This Goes On- | Robert A. Heinlein | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 133 | In the Country of Last Things | Paul Auster | Open Culture |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 134 | Incarceron | Catherine Fisher | Greg Hickey |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 135 | Insurgent | Veronica Roth | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 136 | Invitation to a Beheading | Vladimir Nabokov | Wikipedia |
| Flavorwire | |||
| 137 | Life as we knew it | Susan Beth Pfeffer | Wikipedia |
| Bart’s Bookshelf | |||
| 138 | Little Brother | Cory Doctorow | Greg Hickey |
| Bart’s Bookshelf | |||
| 139 | Lord of the World | Robert Hugh Benson | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 140 | Love Among the Ruins | Evelyn Waugh | Utopia and Dystopia |
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| 141 | Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | The Top Tens |
| Utopia and Dystopia | |||
| 142 | Mockingbird | Walter Tevis | Greg Hickey |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 143 | Monsters of Men | Patrick Ness | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 144 | Mortal Engines | Philip Reeve | Wikipedia |
| Bart’s Bookshelf | |||
| 145 | Noughts and Crosses | Malorie Blackman | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 146 | Only Ever Yours | Louise O’Neill | Stylist |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 147 | Parable of the Sower | Octavia E. Butler | Greg Hickey |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 148 | Pretties | Scott Westerfeld | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 149 | Prodigy | Marie Lu | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 150 | Riddley Walker | Russell Hoban | Wikipedia |
| Flavorwire | |||
| 151 | Sand | Hugh Howey | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 152 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | Greg Hickey |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 153 | Specials | Scott Westerfeld | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 154 | The Book of Dave | Will Self | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 155 | The Death Cure | James Dashner | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 156 | The Declaration | Gemma Malley | Wikipedia |
| Bart’s Bookshelf | |||
| 157 | The Domination | S. M. Stirling | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 158 | The First Men in the Moon | H. G. Wells | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 159 | The Fixed Period | Anthony Trollope | Wikipedia |
| Interesting Literature | |||
| 160 | The Flood | Maggie Gee | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 161 | The Gate to Women’s Country | Sherri S. Tepper | Open Culture |
| Refinery 29 | |||
| 162 | The Heart Goes Last | Margaret Atwood | Read It Forward |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 163 | The Jewel | Amy Ewing | Silver Petticoat Review |
| Stylist | |||
| 164 | The Memoirs of a Survivor | Doris Lessing | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 165 | The Passion of New Eve | Angela Carter | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 166 | The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | Bust |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 167 | The Scorch Trials | James Dashner | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 168 | The Selection | Kiera Cass | Silver Petticoat Review |
| Goodreads | |||
| 169 | The Shockwave Rider | John Brunner | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 170 | The Silver Metal Lover | Tanith Lee | The Huffington Post |
| Greg Hickey | |||
| 171 | The Year of the Flood | Margaret Atwood | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 172 | When The Sleeper Wakes | H. G. Wells | Utopia and Dystopia |
| Wikipedia | |||
| (Books Appear On 1 Lists Each) | |||
| 173 | 334 | Thomas M. Disch | Wikipedia |
| 174 | 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | Oxford Royale Academy |
| 175 | A Better World | Marcus Sakey | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| 176 | A Very Private Life | Michael Frayn | Wikipedia |
| 177 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle | She knows |
| 178 | Abandon the Night | Joss Ware | Wikipedia |
| 179 | Ablution: The Beginning | Michael A. O’Riley | Wikipedia |
| 180 | Alas, Babylon | Pat Frank | Wikipedia |
| 181 | Among the Barons | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Wikipedia |
| 182 | Among the Betrayed | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Wikipedia |
| 183 | Among the Brave | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Wikipedia |
| 184 | Among the Enemy | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Wikipedia |
| 185 | Among the Free | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Wikipedia |
| 186 | Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1) | Susan Ee | Goodreads |
| 187 | Anomaly | Krista McGee | Silver Petticoat Review |
| 188 | Archivist Wasp | Nicole Kornher-Stace | She knows |
| 189 | Asphalt | Carl Hancock Rux | Wikipedia |
| 190 | Bad Moon Rising | Thomas M. Disch | Wikipedia |
| 191 | Beggars in Spain | Nancy Kress | Greg Hickey |
| 192 | Beyond the Night | Joss Ware | Wikipedia |
| 193 | Bleeding Edge | Thomas Pynchon | Wikipedia |
| 194 | Blind Faith | Ben Elton | Wikipedia |
| 195 | Blood Red Road (Dust Lands, #1) | Moira Young | Goodreads |
| 196 | Blood Zero Sky | J. Gabriel Gates | Wikipedia |
| 197 | Brilliance | Marcus Sakey | Greg Hickey |
| 198 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore | Utopia and Dystopia |
| 199 | Camp Concentration | Thomas M. Disch | Wikipedia |
| 200 | Checkmate | Malorie Blackman | Wikipedia |
| 201 | Chevengur | Andrei Platonov | Wikipedia |
| 202 | Childe Rolande | Samantha Lee | Wikipedia |
| 203 | Cities of the Plain | Alex Comfort | Wikipedia |
| 204 | City of Endless Night | Wikipedia | |
| 205 | Cloud on Silver | Wikipedia | |
| 206 | Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence | Aelfrida Tillyard | Wikipedia |
| 207 | Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3) | Marissa Meyer | Goodreads |
| 208 | Crucible Island | Condé B. Pallen | Wikipedia |
| 209 | Dahlgren | Samuel R. Delany | Open Culture |
| 210 | Divided Kingdom | Rupert Thomson | Wikipedia |
| 211 | Dominion | C.J. Sansom | Wikipedia |
| 212 | Doppelgangers | Gerald Heard | Wikipedia |
| 213 | Double Cross | Malorie Blackman | Wikipedia |
| 214 | Dreams Unleashed | Wikipedia | |
| 215 | Drowning Towers | George Turner | The Guilded Earlobe |
| 216 | Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, The | Nancy Farmer | Scholastic |
| 217 | Eight Against Utopia | Wikipedia | |
| 218 | Ella Minnow Pea | Mark Dunn | Wikipedia |
| 219 | Embrace the Night Eternal | Joss Ware | Wikipedia |
| 220 | Enclave (Razorland, #1) | Ann Aguirre | Goodreads |
| 221 | Epp | Axel Jensen | Wikipedia |
| 222 | Exodus / Zenith / Aurora | Julie Bertanga | Bart’s Bookshelf |
| 223 | Fahrenheit 56K | Fernando de QuerolAlcaraz | Utopia and Dystopia |
| 224 | Falls the Shadow | Stefanie Gaither | Barnes & Noble |
| 225 | Farnham’s Freehold | Robert A. Heinlein | Wikipedia |
| 226 | Fever Crumb / A Web Of Air / Scrivener’s Moon | Bart’s Bookshelf | |
| 227 | Fitzpatrick’s War | Theodore Judson | The Guilded Earlobe |
| 228 | Flux / Fixed | Beth Gooble | Bart’s Bookshelf |
| 229 | From the New World | Yusuke Kishi | Wikipedia |
| 230 | Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2) | Lois Lowry | Goodreads |
| 231 | Girl in the Arena | Lise Haines | Bart’s Bookshelf |
| 232 | GLOW | AMY KATHLEEN RYAN | Cultured Vultures |
| 233 | Grasshopper Jungle | Andrew Smith | Barnes & Noble |
| 234 | Guardian of Time | Wikipedia | |
| 235 | HaDerekh LeEin Harod | Amos Kenan | Wikipedia |
| 236 | Hollowland | Amanda Hocking | Utopia and Dystopia |
| 237 | Holy Machine | Chris Beckett | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| 238 | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | Harlan Ellison | Wikipedia |
| 239 | Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3) | Tahereh Mafi | Goodreads |
| 240 | Impromptu in Moribundia | Patrick Hamilton | Wikipedia |
| 241 | In the Second Year | Storm Jameson | Wikipedia |
| 242 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | Wikipedia |
| 243 | Inside Out | Maria V. Snyder | Greg Hickey |
| 244 | Insignia | S. J. Kincaid | Scholastic |
| 245 | J | Howard Jacobson | Wikipedia |
| 246 | Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd Century America | Robert Charles Wilson | The Guilded Earlobe |
| 247 | Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | Refinery 29 |
| 248 | Knife Edge | Malorie Blackman | Wikipedia |
| 249 | Krakatit | Karel Čapek | Wikipedia |
| 250 | Kushiel’s Dart | Jacqueline Carey | She knows |
| 251 | Lanark: A Life in Four Books | Alasdair Gray | Wikipedia |
| 252 | Land Under England | Joseph O’Neill | Wikipedia |
| 253 | Landry Park | Bethany Hagen | Silver Petticoat Review |
| 254 | Last Light | Alex Scarrow | Wikipedia |
| 255 | Law for Business Students | Alix Adams | Read It Forward |
| 256 | Limbo | Wikipedia | |
| 257 | London Fields | Martin Amis | Oxford Royale Academy |
| 258 | London’s Burning: A Novel for the Decline and Fall of the Liberal Age | Barbara Wootton | Wikipedia |
| 259 | Los Angeles: AD 2017 | Phillip Wylie | Wikipedia |
| 260 | Man’s World | Charlotte Haldane | Wikipedia |
| 261 | Manna | Marshall Brain | Utopia and Dystopia |
| 262 | Market Forces | Richard K. Morgan | Open Culture |
| 263 | Minority Report | Philip K. Dick | Wikipedia |
| 264 | Moscow 2042 | Vladimir Voynovich | Wikipedia |
| 265 | Mundus Alter et Idem | Joseph Hall | Wikipedia |
| 266 | Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs | Greg Hickey |
| 267 | Nature’s End | Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka | The Guilded Earlobe |
| 268 | Night Betrayed | Joss Ware | Wikipedia |
| 269 | Night Forbidden | Joss Ware | Wikipedia |
| 270 | Night Resurrected | Joss Ware | Wikipedia |
| 271 | No Traveller Returns | John Collier | Wikipedia |
| 272 | Nontraditional Love | Rafael Grugman | Wikipedia |
| 273 | Oasis | Dima Zales | Greg Hickey |
| 274 | Off the Road | Nina Bawden | Scholastic |
| 275 | On Such a Full Sea | Chang-rae Lee | Read It Forward |
| 276 | On the Beach | Nevil Shute | Read Brightly |
| 277 | Over the Mountain | Ruthven Todd | Wikipedia |
| 278 | Pandemonium | Lauren Oliver | Life hack |
| 279 | Panther in the Hive | Olivia A. Cole | She knows |
| 280 | Parable of the Talents | Octavia Butler | Bust |
| 281 | Paris in the Twentieth Century | Jules Verne | Wikipedia |
| 282 | Philip Dru: Administrator | Wikipedia | |
| 283 | Pictures of the Socialistic Future | Eugen Richter | Wikipedia |
| 284 | PINES | BLAKE CROUCH | Cultured Vultures |
| 285 | Planet of the Apes | Pierre Boulle | Wikipedia |
| 286 | R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots | Karel Čapek | Wikipedia |
| 287 | Reached | Ally Condie | Wikipedia |
| 288 | Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard | Silver Petticoat Review |
| 289 | Remastered | Sebastien Agneessens | Read It Forward |
| 290 | Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman | Harlan Ellison | Wikipedia |
| 291 | Requiem (Delirium, #3) | Lauren Oliver | Goodreads |
| 292 | Revealing Eden | Victoria Foyt | Wikipedia |
| 293 | Right Off the Map | C. E. Montague | Wikipedia |
| 294 | Rondo: The Memoirs of Dr Josef Divonne, Late of 2me Lyon | John Maher | Wikipedia |
| 295 | Saga | Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples | She knows |
| 296 | Sapphique | Catherine Fisher | Wikipedia |
| 297 | Shadow & Claw | Gene Wolfe | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| 298 | Shimoneta | Hirotaka Akagi | Wikipedia |
| 299 | Ship Breaker | Paolo Bacigalupi | Barnes & Noble |
| 300 | Skin Hunger / Sacred Scars | Kathleen Duey | Bart’s Bookshelf |
| 301 | Solution Three | Naomi Mitchison | Wikipedia |
| 302 | Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen | Roald Dahl | Wikipedia |
| 303 | Sprawl trilogy: Neuromancer | Wikipedia | |
| 304 | Stradija | Radoje Domanović | Wikipedia |
| 305 | Tank Girl | Alan C. Martin and Jamie Hewlett | She knows |
| 306 | Tempted by the Night | Colleen Gleason | Wikipedia |
| 307 | The Adoration of Jenna Fox | Mary E. Pearson | Wikipedia |
| 308 | The Aerodrome | Rex Warner | Wikipedia |
| 309 | The Air Trust | George Allan England | Wikipedia |
| 310 | The Approaching Storm | Aelfrida Tillyard | Wikipedia |
| 311 | The Arrogant History of White Ben | Clemence Dane | Wikipedia |
| 312 | The Astonishing Island | Winifred Holtby | Wikipedia |
| 313 | The Atlantis Gene | A.G. Riddle | Greg Hickey |
| 314 | The Atlantis Plague | A.G. Riddle | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| 315 | The Begum’s Fortune | Jules Verne | Wikipedia |
| 316 | The Big Lie | Julie Mayhew | Stylist |
| 317 | The Bodyguard | Adrian Mitchell | Wikipedia |
| 318 | The Bone Season | Samantha Shannon | Wikipedia |
| 319 | The Camp of the Saints | Wikipedia | |
| 320 | The Chemical Garden Trilogy | Lauren DeStefano | Silver Petticoat Review |
| 321 | The Circle | Dave Eggers | Wikipedia |
| 322 | The City and the Stars | Arthur C. Clarke | Wikipedia |
| 323 | The City of Gold and Lead | John Christopher | Wikipedia |
| 324 | The City of the Living Dead | Laurence Manning and Fletcher Pratt | Wikipedia |
| 325 | The Coming Race | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Interesting Literature |
| 326 | The Dark Tower | Wikipedia | |
| 327 | The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1) | Alexandra Bracken | Goodreads |
| 328 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | Greg Hickey |
| 329 | The Dead and the Gone | Susan Beth Pfeffer | Wikipedia |
| 330 | The Delirium Trilogy | Lauren Oliver | Silver Petticoat Review |
| 331 | The Disappearance | Philip Wylie | The Guilded Earlobe |
| 332 | The Envy Chronicles | Joss Ware | Utopia and Dystopia |
| 333 | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | She knows |
| 334 | The Forest of Life | Alexander Scot McPhie | Wikipedia |
| 335 | The Foundation Pit | Andrei Platonov | Wikipedia |
| 336 | The Gates of Ivory, The Gates of Horn | Thomas McGrath | Wikipedia |
| 337 | The Girl Who Owned a City | O. T. Nelson | Wikipedia |
| 338 | The Golden Archer: A Satirical Novel of 1975 | Gregory Mason | Wikipedia |
| 339 | The Heads of Cerberus | Francis Stevens | Wikipedia |
| 340 | The Holy Machine | Chris Beckett | Greg Hickey |
| 341 | The House of Power / Rivers of Fire / The Dark Planet | Patrick Carman | Bart’s Bookshelf |
| 342 | The Ice People | Maggie Gee | Wikipedia |
| 343 | The Infinite Sea | Rick Yancey | Wikipedia |
| 344 | The Inner House | Walter Besant | Wikipedia |
| 345 | The Joy Makers | James Gunn | Wikipedia |
| 346 | The Land of Darkness’ | Margaret Oliphant | Interesting Literature |
| 347 | The Last Book in the Universe | Rodman Philbrick | Barnes & Noble |
| 348 | The Last Human | Ink Pieper | Wikipedia |
| 349 | The Last Star | Rick Yancey | Wikipedia |
| 350 | The Legend Trilogy | Marie Lu | Silver Petticoat Review |
| 351 | The Limit | Kristen Landon | Scholastic |
| 352 | The Long Walk | Stephen King | Wikipedia |
| 353 | The Lorax | Dr. Seuss | Wikipedia |
| 354 | The Lost Traveller | Ruthven Todd | Wikipedia |
| 355 | The Lottery | Shirley Jackson | The Huffington Post |
| 356 | The Lunar Chronicles | Marissa Meyer | Popsugar |
| 357 | The Man in the High Castle | Greg Hickey | |
| 358 | The Miracle Inspector | Helen Smith | Wikipedia |
| 359 | The Moment of Truth | Storm Jameson | Wikipedia |
| 360 | The Mortal Instruments | Cassandra Clare | Popsugar |
| 361 | The New Gods Lead | S. Fowler Wright | Wikipedia |
| 362 | The Old Men at the Zoo | Angus Wilson | Wikipedia |
| 363 | The One (The Selection, #3) | Kiera Cass | Goodreads |
| 364 | The Other Side of the Island | Allegra Goodman | Bart’s Bookshelf |
| 365 | The People of Sparks | Jeanne DuPrau | Wikipedia |
| 366 | The Pesthouse | Jim Crace | Wikipedia |
| 367 | The Pool of Fire | John Christopher | Wikipedia |
| 368 | The Postman | David Brin | Greg Hickey |
| 369 | The Postmortal | Drew Magary | The Guilded Earlobe |
| 370 | The Purple Cloud | M. P. Shiel | Wikipedia |
| 371 | The Race | Nina Allan | Wikipedia |
| 372 | The Repairer of Reputations | Robert W. Chambers | Wikipedia |
| 373 | The Resistance | Gemma Malley | Wikipedia |
| 374 | The Revolt of the Pedestrians | David H. Keller | Wikipedia |
| 375 | The Riddle of the Tower | J. D. Beresford and Esmé Wynne-Tyson | Wikipedia |
| 376 | The Rise of the Meritocracy | Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington | Wikipedia |
| 377 | The Secret Under my Skin | Janet McNaughton | Bart’s Bookshelf |
| 378 | The Shadow Children Sequence | Bart’s Bookshelf | |
| 379 | The Sky Inside / The Walls Have Eyes | Clare B. Dunkle | Bart’s Bookshelf |
| 380 | The Slynx | Tatyana Tolstaya | Flavorwire |
| 381 | The Space Merchants | Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth | Wikipedia |
| 382 | The Stars, My Destination | Alfred Bester | Flavorwire |
| 383 | The Stepford Wives | Ira Levin | Stylist |
| 384 | The Stone Goods | Stylist | |
| 385 | The Sword of Spirits trilogy | John Christopher | Pop Crunch |
| 386 | The Sykaos Papers | E. P. Thompson | Wikipedia |
| 387 | The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau | Greg Hickey |
| 388 | The Tube Riders | Chris Ward | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| 389 | The War in 2020 | Ralph Peters | Wikipedia |
| 390 | The Wild Goose Chase | Rex Warner | Wikipedia |
| 391 | The Winner’s Curse | Marie Rutkoski | Silver Petticoat Review |
| 392 | The World As It Shall Be | Émile Souvestre | Wikipedia |
| 393 | Then We Shall Hear Singing | Storm Jameson | Wikipedia |
| 394 | These Broken Stars | Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner | Silver Petticoat Review |
| 395 | This World We Live In | Susan Beth Pfeffer | Wikipedia |
| 396 | Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky, #2) | Veronica Rossi | Goodreads |
| 397 | Thunder | Bonnie Calhoun | Silver Petticoat Review |
| 398 | To Tell The Truth… | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Wikipedia |
| 399 | Tomorrow Girls #1: Behind the Gates | Eva Gray | Scholastic |
| 400 | Trylogia Księżycowa | Jerzy Żuławski | Wikipedia |
| 401 | Tunnel in the Sky | Robert A. Heinlein | Wikipedia |
| 402 | Underground | Chris Ward | Greg Hickey |
| 403 | Underworld | Don DeLillo | Wikipedia |
| 404 | Unknown Tomorrow | William Le Queux | Wikipedia |
| 405 | Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2) | Tahereh Mafi | Goodreads |
| 406 | Useless Hands | Claude Farrère | Wikipedia |
| 407 | Virtual Light | William Gibson | Wikipedia |
| 408 | Vril, the Power of the Coming Race | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Wikipedia |
| 409 | Waiting for the Barbarians and The Childhood of Jesus | JM Coetzee | Oxford Royale Academy |
| 410 | Watchmen | Alan Moore | Deseret News |
| 411 | We All Looked Up | Tommy Wallach | Barnes & Noble |
| 412 | We Have Been Warned | Naomi Mitchison | Wikipedia |
| 413 | Welcome to the Monkey House | Kurt Vonnegut | Flavorwire |
| 414 | What Not! | Rose Macaulay | Wikipedia |
| 415 | When the Tripods Came | John Christopher | Wikipedia |
| 416 | Who Fears Death | Nnedi Okorafor | She knows |
| 417 | Wisdom Keepers | Wikipedia | |
| 418 | World Made By Hand | James Howard Kunstler | Wikipedia |
| 419 | Year Nine | Cyril Connolly | Wikipedia |
| 420 | Year of the Flood | Margaret Atwood | She knows |
| 421 | Z213: Exit | Dimitris Lyacos | Wikipedia |
| 422 | Zazen | Vanessa Veselka | Flavorwire |
| 423 | Zone One | Colson Whitehead | Flavorwire |
| 424 | Zoo City | Laurent Beukes | She knows |
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| Bust | 11 Dystopian Novels To Prepare You For Donald Trump’s Presidency |
| Cultured Vultures | 10 Best Dystopian Novels You Need To Read |
| Deseret News | 30 most popular dystopian novels |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica | 10 Devastating Dystopias |
| Flavorwire | 15 Works of Dystopian Fiction Everyone Should Read |
| Goodreads | Popular Dystopian Books |
| Greg Hickey | The 110 Best Dystopian Novels |
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| Ink Tank | 15 timeless observations from history’s greatest dystopian novels |
| Interesting Literature | The Best Dystopian Novels Written Before Orwell’s 1984 |
| Life hack | 20 Must-Read Dystopian Novels That Are Set In A Futuristic World |
| Listverse | Top 12 Dystopian Novels |
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| Oxford Royale Academy | 9 Great Dystopian Novels that Illuminate How We Live Today |
| Picador | The best dystopian novels of all time |
| Pop Crunch | The 16 Best Dystopian Books Of All Time |
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| Read Brightly | The Apocalypse for Grown-Ups: Great Dystopian Novels for Adults |
| Read It Forward | 21 of the Best Dystopian Novels |
| Refinery 29 | 20 Dystopian Novels To Feed Your Need For Escape |
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| She knows | 12 dystopian novels where women kick the future’s ass |
| ShortList | 20 Best Dystopian Novels |
| Silver Petticoat Review | 15 Must Read YA Dystopian Novels |
| Stylist | 12 powerful dystopian novels that every woman should read |
| Swords and Spaceships | The 10 Very Best Dystopian Novels |
| The Best Sci Fi Books | 96 Dystopian Science Fiction Books |
| The Culture Trip | The Dystopian Novels You Should Read |
| The Guilded Earlobe | Welcome to the Apocalypse: My Top 10 Favorite Adult Dystopian Novels |
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| The Top Tens | Top Ten Dystopian Novels |
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