Favorite Dystopian Book?

I really liked The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. I also really enjoyed Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

I like the old stuff in this genre, so my 5 faves would be Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes and The Time Machine.

Others that are very good: Colossus; Alas, Babylon; The Furies (big giant bees take over); The Stepford Wives.

A Canticle for Leibowitz, by ? Can't remember the author. I always considered it post-apocolyptic, but not in a Mad Max way.

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Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is excellent also.

orwell's nineteen eighty-four, huxley's brave new world, kafka's the trial, camus' the plague (not conventionally considered dystopian, but functions well in that context).

a decent list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature

Right now I'm reading Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and it's looking to be right up there. Great book.

Tough call! 1984, Brave New World, my ya novel, The Haven, Pete Hautman's Rash...

Probably stil The Guardians by John Christopher

There's one called We by Yevengy Zamyatin that's also very good.

It's not strictly dystopian, but Resurrection, Inc by Kevin J. Anderson is a good read as well. I didn't see Children of Men namechecked, but that's also a good read.

I would definitely say „1984”... It is a very actual book.

Alice in Wonderland, of course.

Not sure if all of these are dystopian -- futuristic stuff really isn't my thing -- but these books might capture your interest:

1984 and Fahrenheit 451 were pretty awesome, in my opinion.

I also liked Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, although I gotta confess that I sort of didn't understand it. Dick's Minority Report was pretty good, too.

I read A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess when I was in high school. It was OK but I didn't dig some of the intensely violent scenes.

Vito said:

Not sure if all of these are dystopian -- futuristic stuff really isn't my thing -- but these books might capture your interest:

1984 and Fahrenheit 451 were pretty awesome, in my opinion.

I also liked Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, although I gotta confess that I sort of didn't understand it. Dick's Minority Report was pretty good, too.

I read A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess when I was in high school. It was OK but I didn't dig some of the intensely violent scenes.

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Yeahp Vito, I agree on Clockwork Orange. Fortunately they didn't require us to read that in high school and I thumbed through it later. Didn't make much of an impact because I barely remember anything from it.

Fahrenheit 451 has its violence, but it very neatly fits the premise - even the senseless violence within.

As long as we're mentioning the major-leaguer George Orwell so frequently, I'd like to recommend Animal Farm in addition to his colossal 1984.

Also wanted to underscore the 3-book Colossus series from D.F. Jones. Very appropos, especially with our near-total dependency upon computer technology today.

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Yeahp Vito, I agree on Clockwork Orange. Fortunately they didn't require us to read that in high school and I thumbed through it later. Didn't make much of an impact because I barely remember anything from it.

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It wasn't one of the assigned readings for my sophomore World Lit class. I selected it for the required independent book report, mainly because I loved the Mad Magazine parody of the movie. Mad renamed it "A Clockwork Lemon". On the magazine cover, Alfred E. Neuman wore a derby and eye makeup, just like Malcolm McDowell did in the movie. I thought it was pretty hilarious!

A lot of good suggestions, especially the classics like 1984 and Brave New World. Some more recent stuff I enjoyed:

The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey

The Passage by Justin Cronin

Come to think of that, both are those are more post-apocalypse than dystopian, but they're both great reads.

I can only echo the classics: 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, The Time Machine, A Clockwork Orange, Logan's Run, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Harry Harrison's "Make Room! Make Room!" which was the movie Soylent Green was loosely based on.

I still want to read Feed, and don't know why I haven't yet.