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Books like The Handmaid's Tale
Loved The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood? 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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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 Road
A father and son walk through a dead, ash-grey world; stripped-bare, unbearably tender post-apocalyptic fiction.
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3
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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Dawn
aliens reproducing with humans. they are mixing genes with humans because humans have destroyed earth basically because nuclear war. because they are stupid. credit to katsoda26
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Adulthood Rites
The second book in the Lilith's Brood trilogy, this story takes place years after the arrival of Oankali aliens in the first book. Now, the Oankali have established some colonies on Earth, where they
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The Running Man
The Running Man is a dystopian thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the omni
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V for Vendetta
A seminal graphic novel that defined sophisticated storytelling, Alan Moore's best-selling V For Vendetta is a terrifying portrait of totalitarianism and resistance, superbly illustrated by artist Dav
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Lanark
Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary, playful imagination, it convey