Dystopian

Adult Fiction - Dystopian

Updated April 11, 2023
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Oryx and Crake : a novel
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACE * Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself...
Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray
Paper Book
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of...
Out in the open
Carrasco, Jesús
Paper Book
A young boy has fled his home. Crouched in his hiding place he hears the shouts of the men hunting him. When the search party has passed, what lies before him is an infinite, arid plain, one he must cross in order to escape those from whom he's fleeing. One night he crosses paths with an old...
American war
El Akkad, Omar
Paper Book
Winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year. 2074. America's future is Civil War. Sarat's reality is...
Future home of the living god : a novel
Erdrich, Louise
Paper Book
'Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers' Guardian Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life...
The dog stars
Heller, Peter
Paper Book
Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for: his dog, his neighbour and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his plane for short journeys. But, one day, he takes his plane over the horizon, knowing that he won't have enough...
Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous
Paper Book
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit "A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works." --Wall Street Journal  Aldous Huxley's profoundly ...
Never let me go
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
A story of love, friendship and memory.
J : a novel
Jacobson, Howard.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths PrizeSet in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - Jis a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Howard Jacobson, one...
Bird box
Malerman, Josh
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR FILM IF YOU'VE SEEN WHAT'S OUT THERE... IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE Malorie raises the children the only way she can: indoors, with the doors locked, the curtains closed, and mattresses nailed over the windows. The children...
Station eleven
Mandel, Emily St. John
Paper Book
One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 'Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others' - George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones Now an HBO Max original TV series The New York Times<...
Gather the daughters : a novel
Melamed, Jennie
Paper Book
The country of Ice Cream Star
Newman, Sandra
Paper Book
My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States, save every poory children, short for life. Is how a city die for selfish love, and rise from this same smallness. Be how the new America begin, in wars against all hope - a country with no...
Spark : a novel
Twelve Hawks, John.
Paper Book
Jacob Underwood is not like other people. He has Cotardâe(tm)s Syndrome. He believes he is dead. Which makes his job as a hired assassin neutralising âe~problemsâe(tm) for DBG, a massive multinational corporation, very simple. He carries out the task âe" and feels nothing. Now DBG...
The end of the world running club
Walker, Adrian J. (Suspense fiction writer)
Paper Book
A powerful post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans of The End of the F*cking World. 'A real find' STEPHEN KING When the world ends and you find yourself stranded on the wrong side of the country, every second counts. No one knows this more than Edgar...

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