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Books like The Lathe of Heaven
Loved The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin? 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 Handmaid's Tale
Women reduced to their fertility in a theocratic America; chillingly plausible and fiercely written.
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2
Fahrenheit 451
A fireman whose job is burning books begins to question why; a passionate defence of reading.
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3
1984
Total surveillance, rewritten history and a man who dares to think for himself; the defining dystopia.
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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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Brave New World
A future engineered for comfort and conformity; the other great dystopia, warning against pleasure rather than fear.
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Nobody knew they were there!
An assassin descends on a college town to commit a political murder in this dystopian thriller by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ed McBain. As soon as he arrives, Sam Eisler can see the train
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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
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Zone Null
Es sind merkwürdige und unheimliche Erfahrungen, die jene machen, die sich in die Zone Null wagen. Nach einer globalen Katastrophe haben die zwei überlebenden Supermächte jahrhundertelang in die völli
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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