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Books like The City of Mirrors
Loved The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin? 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
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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6
Brave New World
A future engineered for comfort and conformity; the other great dystopia, warning against pleasure rather than fear.
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7
Cadáver exquisito
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tr
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8
The Heart Goes Last
"Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs.
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9
The Water Knife
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river
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10
Station Eleven
A travelling theatre troupe keeps art alive after a pandemic; quietly hopeful and beautifully structured.