Your recommendations for post-apocalyptic or dystopian books

[baconpatroller]

For some reason I am fascinated by these kind of books. My favourites include The Stand, The Chrysalids, The Kraken Wakes, Day of the Triffids, 1984, The Road, Handmaid's Tale, etc. Which do you like?

[Darian W]

1984 will always be one of my favorites. I used to be obsessed with this book and I still think Orwell had some of the most revealing political insights.

I also really like Anthem. I'm not a big fan of Rand in general but Anthem had a very uplifting individualist message, and it didn't center on why Objectivism is The Big Truth. It might be odd for a dystopian novella to be called uplifting, but in Anthem humanity is reclaimed.

We was an interesting book as well.

However, I think the most relevant depiction of dystopia is Gilliam's film Brazil: an absurd and brutal bureaucratic nightmare where a paperwork error can get you disappeared and people ignore the horror around them.

[orion70]

Have you checked out "A Scientific Romance"?

[smythemilie]

I like the Gender Game series and The Selection series. Very different books but they worlds the authors create are amazing.

[BookishWorld]

Handmaid's Tale is now a Netflix series, so finding this thread gives me the goosebumps.

Back to my current reality, the Hunger Games and Divergent series are my easy favourites. I'd check out the Gender Game and The Selection series, I think. I may as well check out the other books, too.

[Rachael S 1]

William Forstchen - One Second After trilogy. I have never been so impressed. It is set in current times in a small rural town in American (I believe it is in Ohio?) One day, an EMP is set off above America, killing all electricity and technology. The first book focuses on the initial -OH sh*t- moment and trying to figure out how to deal with lack of food and medications. The second book deals with the year the next year of trying to survive and fix technology and the final book deals with the initial problem that caused the EMP to be set off. It is scary because of how close we can be to this reality. This series really makes you think - what would you do if all of a sudden technology didn't work.

[Areeba M]

I love the The Hunger Game series. Maybe because these were my first serious books that got me into reading. Before that I use dto read a lot of Chick Lits.

[Henry Patrovic]

I would recommend Lonely Apocalypse by Constantin Step. It’s not a classical post apocalyptic book, but it’s still really good.

[Tommy Mayengbam]

I like "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood.

These are in my TBR:

- The Last Children of Tokyo
- Wool
- I, Who Have Never Known Men
- Tender is The Flesh