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Books like Ice
Loved Ice by Anna Kavan? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from dystopian, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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Fahrenheit 451
A fireman whose job is burning books begins to question why; a passionate defence of reading.
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1984
Total surveillance, rewritten history and a man who dares to think for himself; the defining dystopia.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Women reduced to their fertility in a theocratic America; chillingly plausible and fiercely written.
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4
Brave New World
A future engineered for comfort and conformity; the other great dystopia, warning against pleasure rather than fear.
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5
Never Let Me Go
Three friends at a strange English boarding school slowly learn what they were made for; restrained and heartbreaking.
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6
The Road
A father and son walk through a dead, ash-grey world; stripped-bare, unbearably tender post-apocalyptic fiction.
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Logan's run
A future world ruled by youth, where life ends at 21. If you try to escape this fate and run, you are pursued by Sandmen, the hired guns who enforce the "death at 21" rule. Our hero, Logan, is a Sandm
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A Clockwork Orange
Ultra-violence, free will and a teenage narrator with his own invented slang; provocative and stylistically dazzling.
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9
This Perfect Day
This book is AWESOME. A story of a man fighting to free himself from dystopia as in Brave New World and 1984. However, the story is much tighter and exciting than in either of these books. Many twists
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10
Zone Null
Es sind merkwürdige und unheimliche Erfahrungen, die jene machen, die sich in die Zone Null wagen. Nach einer globalen Katastrophe haben die zwei überlebenden Supermächte jahrhundertelang in die völli