Non-YA Dystopian Fiction

Dina Riccobono · Post by **Dina Riccobono** » 18 Apr 2021, 16:26

I'm looking for another great dystopian read..Think Black Mirror x Hugh Howey's Wool. An adult version of The Hunger Games perhaps.

No YA fiction please, or zombies. Something that has some realistic future potential.

Dzejn_Crvena · Post by **Dzejn_Crvena** » 30 May 2021, 02:38

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of Talents?

I only read KINDRED for the 2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge prompt: an afrofuturistic book
I love Butler's writing style. Very engaging and easy to follow.

Rachael S 1 · Post by **Rachael S 1** » 05 Nov 2021, 10:57

William Forstchen has a dystopian trilogy that takes place in current time America. It is basically World War III and China and America set off EMPs off all over the world. In a small town in Ohio, suddenly the power goes off. Nothing electronic works. Now everyone has to learn how to survive.

Aly Smith · Post by **Aly Smith** » 12 Jan 2022, 17:30

William Forester's series of One Second After is about what would happen in modern-day America if an ESP went off over the country. How would people survive without electricity or medicine?

09 Nov 2022, 06:40

Dzejn_Crvena wrote: ↑30 May 2021, 02:38 Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of Talents?

I only read KINDRED for the 2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge prompt: an afrofuturistic book
I love Butler's writing style. Very engaging and easy to follow.

This is exactly the book I was going to suggest as well. I just read both of these books by Octavia Butler and they were great. I couldn't recommend these two enough and they are definitely not YA.

FelinaAlpuertoPittman2859+ · 25 Mar 2025, 15:33

I would recommend 'The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake" by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. I consider them great dystopian reads that are not for young adults

Violet Devreaux · Post by **Violet Devreaux** » 06 Jun 2025, 11:53

I recently read The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami and it’s so good. Incredibly relevant read given current politics around the world and the rise of policing surveillance.