World Destruction Reading List

Reddit’s r/books thread recently had a conversation about best dystopian novels. There were a lot on the list I hadn’t heard of, and I have a particular love for dystopias (I’ve written two and a half, so far!).

So, for my benefit and yours, here’s a compilation of the crowd-sourced dystopian titles (plus some that I didn’t find on reddit), in no particular order, you should read:

• Earth Abides, George R Stewart
• The Passage, Justin Cronin
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
  • Doctor Bloodmoney, Philip K. Dick
• Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• Oryx & Crake; The Year of the Flood; MaddAddam – trilogy by Margaret Atwood
  • A Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
  • Positron, Margaret Atwood
• Never Let me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Brave New World, Aldus Huxley
• 1984, George Orwell
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Wool, Hugh Howey
• Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon
• Wastelands anthology, John Joseph Adams
• Y The Last Man,  Brian K. Vaughan (comics)
• The Walking Dead,  Robert Kirkman (comics)
• Lucifer’s Hammer, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
• Ashes, Ashes, Jo Treggiari
• Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
• The Giver, Lois Lawry
• Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
• The Postman, David Brin
• This Perfect Day, Ira Levin
• Day of the Triffids, John Wyndam
• World War Z, Max Brooks
• The Stand, Stephen King
• Plague Year, Jeff Carlson
• The Genesis of Shannara, Terry Brooks
• The Deluge, Mark Morris
• Robopocalpyse, Daniel Wilson
• Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
• We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Emberverse series, R.M.Stirling
• Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde
• Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman
• The Tripods, John Christopher
• Mortal Engines, Phillip Reeve
• The Children of Men, P.D. James
• The Hunger Games trilogy,
• Dog Stars, Peter Helle
• The Last Policeman, Ben H Winters
• Idlewild; Edenborn; and Everfree, Nick Sagan
• The Maze Runner, James Dashner
• The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

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