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Loved The true tale of the monster Billy Dean by David Almond? 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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The Road
A father and son walk through a dead, ash-grey world; stripped-bare, unbearably tender post-apocalyptic fiction.
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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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The Handmaid's Tale
Women reduced to their fertility in a theocratic America; chillingly plausible and fiercely written.
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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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Brave New World
A future engineered for comfort and conformity; the other great dystopia, warning against pleasure rather than fear.
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Allegiant
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world pas
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Delirium
English : The first book in Lauren Oliver’s New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. In an alternate United States, love has been declared a danger
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Insurgent
One choice can transform you--or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--an
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Wool
They live beneath the earth in a prison of their own making. There is a view of the outside world, a spoiled and rotten world, their forefathers left behind. But this view fades over time, ruined by t