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[xwanderlust89x]

First post, but seems good place to ask :)
Recomendations on Books based in Dystopian settings?
That aren't mainstream? Ive think ive read all the classics, trying to find some new ones.
Thanks

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[shadowings]

idk how classic you think Margaret Atwood is, but her books are fantastic. The Handmaid's Tale is fairly well known as is Oryx & Crake, but she just came out with the Year of the Flood. It's a kind of parallel sequel to Oryx & Crake, but doesn't require any background from the aforementioned book.

[xwanderlust89x]

Im thinking classic was the wrong word... More like blatantly obvious in the category. Thank you, Ive read Oryx and Crake but hadn't realized there was another one :)

[aeonblink]

Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

[lifeismagic]

don't know if you read young adult books, but the Hunger Games trilogy was terrific. i also liked cory doctorow's Little Brother.

[paperbackbandit]

I second both of these but also throw out "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness. It's the first book in a trilogy & I actually liked it better than Hunger Games.

[lifeismagic]

i read that also; i did enjoy it, and its sequel. i still lean towards Hunger Games, though. :) i've also read the two books out so far of the trilogy that began with The Maze Runner -- pretty good, but a definite 3rd to the two series above.

[paperbackbandit]

The Maze Runner series is next on my list after I take a Dystopian break :) There's a new book called Divergent which I've heard good things about.

[rondaview]

Handmaid's Tale and Never Let Me Go are both terrific. I didn't like Oryx and Crake that much and downright disliked Year of the Flood. Is it just me or have her latest books shed that sinuous, intoxicating lyricism that characterized her work up to around the Blind Assassin?

China Mieville is a mainstay. Perdido Street Station and The Scar come highly recommended by everyone I know (myself included!).

Neuromancer if you can get past the thick language.

Ursula K. Leguin, Octavia Butler, and Philip K. Dick are also good places to look, although I haven't read too much of them myself and so don't know which books to point out.

I guess I haven't read many dystopic novels that aren't obvious selections for any Dystopia 101 literature class. Huh.

[uvula_fr_b4]

How about:

Robert Silverberg: The World Inside (1971)
Ira Levin : This Perfect Day (1970)
Koushun Takami: Battle Royale (1999)
John Wyndham: The Chrysalids, a.k.a. Re-Birth (1955)