As an avid reader, I have always been drawn to the dystopian genre and find many people are intrigued with it but don't know where to start! So here are the foundational dystopian reads I LOVE and would recommend to anyone who asked
The Mother of all dystopia (Margaret Atwood)'s best novel
The Handmaid's Tale
A sad story about how memories contribute to identity and personal and societal narrative
The Memory Police
Post-apocalyptic duology about coping methods and the inevitability of change
Parable of the Sower
Futuristic novel where firefighters burn books instead of put out fires
Fahrenheit 451
Classic dystopia about the dangers of media censorship, totalitarianism and more
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Ponders the meaning of what constitutes humanity told through children in boarding school
Never Let Me Go (novel)
Trilogy about the relationship between nature and technology, themes of genetic engineering and corporate power
The MaddAddam Trilogy Series - Penguin Random House
Shockingly genius, criticizes the gender power imbalance in the world by woman gaining electrical powers and becoming the ‘superior gender’
The Power: Alderman, Naomi - Books
Where jurors experience the crime through the defendant's life
The Repeat Room
Horrors about legalized cannibalism and greif
Tender Is the Flesh
Exiling girls due to their dangerous magic, about the effects of misogyny
