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Books like Ready Player One
Loved Ready Player One by Ernest Cline? 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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2
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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3
The Handmaid's Tale
Women reduced to their fertility in a theocratic America; chillingly plausible and fiercely written.
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4
Fahrenheit 451
A fireman whose job is burning books begins to question why; a passionate defence of reading.
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5
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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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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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
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9
Catching Fire
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has r
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10
The Maze Runner
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he's not alone. When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who wel