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Loved Four by Veronica Roth? 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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  1. 1

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005 · Dystopian

    Three friends at a strange English boarding school slowly learn what they were made for; restrained and heartbreaking.

  2. 2

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · Dystopian

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

  3. 3

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood · 1985 · Dystopian

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

  4. 4

    Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury · 1953 · Dystopian

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

  5. 5

    1984

    George Orwell · 1949 · Dystopian

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

  6. 6

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley · 1932 · Dystopian

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

  7. 7

    Steelheart

    Brandon Sanderson · 2001 · Dystopian

    There are no heroes, only villains. My father believed that a hero was going to step in, and he died for that belief. Steelheart killed him for seeing that he had a weakness, and no one knows I saw. N

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    Midnight Robber

    Nalo Hopkinson · 2000 · Dystopian

    PRISONER OF NEW HALF-WAY TREE It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandis

  9. 9

    Oryx and Crake

    Margaret Atwood · 2003 · Dystopian

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

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    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

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