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Books like 1984
Loved 1984 by George Orwell? 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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1
Fahrenheit 451
A fireman whose job is burning books begins to question why; a passionate defence of reading.
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2
Brave New World
A future engineered for comfort and conformity; the other great dystopia, warning against pleasure rather than fear.
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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
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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5
The Road
A father and son walk through a dead, ash-grey world; stripped-bare, unbearably tender post-apocalyptic fiction.
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6
The Chrysalids
This book is about a post apocalyptic world returned back to the times of the horse and carriage seen through the eyes of a young boy. Deviations are punished or destroyed and what few books remained
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7
A Clockwork Orange
Ultra-violence, free will and a teenage narrator with his own invented slang; provocative and stylistically dazzling.
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8
Ice
Anna Kavan's books have established her reputation as one of the most talented and original contemporary writers - comparable in stature to Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin and Djuna Barnes. A man's search f
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9
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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10
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