8 Great Dystopian Books You Should Have Read

[DrStrangelove]

8 Great Dystopian Books You Should Have Read

Everyone loves a dystopia, so today we're giving you eight great dystopian novels to keep you entertained. So prepare for a world where things aren't that great.

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[Zeitgeist1983]

One of these lists without 1984? How can you?!

 

[rasputin0009]

A lot of good ones. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood could have joined the list. Tells the story of Snowman, the last surviving human who's the caretaker of primitive human-like creatures that were bio-engineered by Snowman's best friend. For a science-fiction dystopian, it's highly believable, relatable and most importantly, inventive.

 

[Fox12]

I'm sorry, I think you forgot Lord of the Flies, the greatest dystopian novel of all. I could add my voice to the 1984 people, but I won't.

I don't get V for Vendetta. It was okay, I guess, for a young writer, but I wouldn't hold it up to classic works of literature. Heck, you could probably make a stronger case for Watchmen as a dystopian novel if you really wanted to.

 

[MHR]

I can see not wanting to put the obvious answer in a list you're trying to keep short, but cmon, 1984. That was required reading in my high school english. I was practically raised on 1984.

 

[Ferisar]

Oh look, it's my high school senior ye-- Wait.

Wait...

1984 isn't here?

Oh no

IT'S HAPPENING.

 

[Flutterbrave]

Forget 1984 and Brave New World, everybody who's read a dystopian novel has probably already read both of them anyway. At this point it's like writing a list of the best kitchen gadgets and including a fridge and an oven. You're not wrong, but c'mon. We knew that.

I'd plug *Inverted World*, which I think has the (perhaps dubious) honour of being the weirdest dystopian fiction I've read. To summarise, the planet is infinite in size, while the universe is finite. Geometry ensues.