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Books like Never Let Me Go

Loved Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from dystopian, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · Dystopian

    A father and son walk through a dead, ash-grey world; stripped-bare, unbearably tender post-apocalyptic fiction.

  2. 2

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood · 1985 · Dystopian

    Women reduced to their fertility in a theocratic America; chillingly plausible and fiercely written.

  3. 3

    Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury · 1953 · Dystopian

    A fireman whose job is burning books begins to question why; a passionate defence of reading.

  4. 4

    1984

    George Orwell · 1949 · Dystopian

    Total surveillance, rewritten history and a man who dares to think for himself; the defining dystopia.

  5. 5

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley · 1932 · Dystopian

    A future engineered for comfort and conformity; the other great dystopia, warning against pleasure rather than fear.

  6. 6

    Among the enemy

    Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2005 · Dystopian

    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.

  7. 7

    Among the Brave

    Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2004 · Dystopian

    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

  8. 8

    Oryx and Crake

    Margaret Atwood · 2003 · Dystopian

    A man may be the last human after a engineered catastrophe; sharp, scary speculative fiction.

  9. 9

    Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten

    Christian Kracht · 2008 · Dystopian

    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

  10. 10

    Ready Player One

    Ernest Cline · 2008 · Dystopian

    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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