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Books like The Road
Loved The Road by Cormac McCarthy? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from dystopian, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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1
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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2
The Handmaid's Tale
Women reduced to their fertility in a theocratic America; chillingly plausible and fiercely written.
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3
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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Brave New World
A future engineered for comfort and conformity; the other great dystopia, warning against pleasure rather than fear.
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Among the enemy
this book is part of the shadow children sequel. a few shadow children decide to work for the population police and save all the shadow children they can.
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Among the Brave
Trey may have saved Luke's life, but he still thinks of himself as a coward who can barely stand to be outdoors. Now Trey finds out Luke has been taken prisoner at Population Police headquarters. Trey
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Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten
Der Krieg der Schweizer. Nach "Faserland" und "1979" der lange erwartete, neue Roman von Christian Kracht: "Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten" ist die literarische Erfindung eines al
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Ready Player One
In the year 2044. reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the
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The Knife of Never Letting Go
An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear ever