Dystopian and apocalyptic literature is one of my favorite genres. I agree with all your classic choices. The Testament is a good sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. I read the Madd Adams trilogy earlier this year and it was good. My favorites in this genre are The Stand by Stephen King and Swan Song by Robert McCammon. The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler are also excellent. Definitely will check out The Chrysalids.
I loved the stand, but a rewread Opened my eyes how bad it acutaly is and pointless (no character development, they stay the same) does not change sociaty it stays largly the same, just that a lot of people are dead. And what is the point of ending 4 people to vegas? Them going there has no effect on the ending. And why is nadine the only one who has no free will, exept the one moment she jumps? Why is king so sexist against women why ate thry just Props? Why jave These characters no deeped after 1000+ Pages? Stu is the same as he started, larry has not realy changed has he? The only one who jad some for of change in mind Was loyd, not realy he did the same at the beginning of his Story. A Bad Story utter pointless.
2009 - One Second After (American writer William R. Forstchen) 2015 - One Year After (A John Matherson Novel) 2017 - The Final Day (A John Matherson Novel)
Great video! There are two Cold War era novels that you may want to try-On the Beach by Nevil Shute and Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. Another classic is George Stewart’s Earth Abides.
A favorite genre for sure! When you decide to read Oryx and Crake I highly recommend reading the books back to back as there are a lot of details and characters to remember and with the way the book is structured, it’s easier to read the trilogy at once. Don’t let this intimidate you though as they are quick and engrossing reads.
You overlooked two classics of that genre: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ( there's a very good old movie) and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which supposedly was the inspiration for Orwell's 1984. Speaking of the Day of the Triffids,there is also a very good old movie about it. I don't remember if is from Hammer Studios.
I read The Stand for the first time in early 2020... Maybe not a great time to read it, but a great book! Also, Brave New World has been my favourite book since I first read it when I was 13 years old, such an amazing read, every time.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy is a dystopia on steroids. It's dark, it fosters despair, it's about how low the human race can sink, but also its tale of a man trying to save his son will move you to tears. Oh, yeah, and it won a Pulitzer Prize.
I highly recommend "under the blue". Found it in a bookshop i Romania as the author is from Romania, but lives in England I believe. Great dystopian novel. Resembles station eleven.
Thanks for the recommendations, I really enjoy dystopian books too! Another futuristic dystopian with feminist themes I would recommend is Vox by Christina Dalcher, it was super messed up in a good way!
I was going to mention Chrysalids too. So friggin' good. Someone I would put on nearly equal footing and similar style to Wyndham is John Christopher. The Death Of Grass and the Tripods series - highly rec.
@@brianlehman710 Absolutely this one. I remember reading The Death of Grass back in the day and thinking, "Yes, this is how it would happen." It's realistically bleak and there are some nasty people out there that would take advantage of the breakdown of civilised society.
A little unrelated, but if you love 1984, check out The Resistance album by Muse, which was heavily based off of it (as well as some of their other albums/songs; such as many from Drones). Muse is an amazing band… out of this world, really.
Great video - lots of my favourites here. I am totally with you on John Wyndham. Last year I read Day of the Triffids and it totally blew me away, I think about it a lot. So recently I bought 4 more of his books so that I can read his other classics. Sounds like we thought the same thing....
Thanks for all the recommendations! The Day of the Triffids sounds interesting. Also agree on Station Eleven being scary like silence-felt exactly like that especially in the parts set after the plague.
I think it was Bad. Soecialy zhe portrail of women. And that the triffid are so not the maine plot. The beginning was realy good but it falls short where fast.
Another book I never hear anyone talk about is "The last one at the party" by B. Clift - it's a post-apocalyptic book about one woman's journey in the aftermath of a pandemic (which killed almost everyone). I've actually really enjoyed, it's written very realistically and is quite psychological.
I haven't read The Children of Men by P.D James but the movie (Children of Men) is outstanding. It's an English The Handmaid's Tale. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is also excellent, both the book and the movie.
I don't know if you read an older comment, but I just discovered you. I wanted to suggest The Postman Brin, David also The Lathe of Heaven Le Guin, Ursula K. and finally A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World Fletcher, C.A.
Thanks, you've got some great books on your list (a couple that I haven't read but will look into). Love John Wyndham! A couple that I would recommend are The Farm by Joanne Ramos (a modern take on The Handmaid's Tale) and an older book (1995) by Jose Saramago called Blindness (a dark and disturbing novel with a frightening view of a society where you have rulers and dissidents). Happy reading.
I have two recommendations: The Grace Year by Kim Liggett and Animal Farm by George Orwell. For people who aren't too excited about Orwell, Animal Farm is short, easy to read, entertaining, it's got animals, and is super relevant. I just finished The Grace Year and I loved it.
You should check out The Passage by Justin Cronin! Another great post apocalypse series! One Second After by William Forstchen is also fantastic series, terrifying but really good! I loved The Day of the Triffids!
Really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on all of these. There's lots here that I'd like to read. Definitely want to read The Handmaid's Tale and The History of Bees ☺
I love (Post) Apocalyptic books and as soon as something is described as apocalyptic I‘m interested 🙈 One of my absolute favourites is The Stand by Stephen King, you should try it out (the unabridged version that is). Love your videos! xx K
First time visiting your channel and what AMAZING books you covered in your video!!! I agree with your comments regarding "1984" ... after you read it, it just stays with you. His "Animal Farm" is also brilliant! I'm going to check out a number of these books ... thanks so much for covering such an awesome selection of books in this category!
Dystopia is my favorite genre, I have the Day of the Triffids and 1984 are both on my 2021 TBR hopefully I’ll get to them soon🙂 I loved the Handmaid’s tale and the graphic novel is good as well and I really want to read the Testaments. Station Eleven was amazing 🤩 have you read the Road by Cormac McCarthy ? Or I am Legend? I think you’ll like these two.
I hope you'll love them both! I haven't read The Road but really want to, although I read I Am Legend years and years ago and don't remember much from it xD
Hi can you do a video review of the Keeper of Rhymes kindle ebook please...it seems the plot is completely mental! But i want to make sure by watching a review before i buy😅
Seriously im so intrigued and now I really want to get my hands on dystopian novels even though I've read handmaids tale and 1984 but the books by John Wyndam sounds interesting in a very unique way and I also want to read orher books that you've mentioned. You actually know to increase my Tbr ❤😂
The Martydom of Man by William Winwood Reade. Anything by H.P. Lovecraft. The Prince by Machiavelli. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Moby Dick by Herman Mellvile. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Star Ship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Animal Farm by George Orwell. Rip Van Winkle by ?.
Loved this! Many of these are on my All Time Favorites list, and 2 books: The History of Bees and The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, were recommendations from you which I loved. I also need to read The Book of Flora- because I want to see how it ends. I was also disappointed by the second book- mainly because the first was SO good. I'm going to browse your shelf on goodreads! A dystopian book I love that's not well known: Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall- it isn't a perfect novel, but it has stuck with me, I think about it a lot.
Thank you! :D It's always so fun to hear people have read my recs and loved them :D The first book in the Midwife series is hard to follow up, I agree, but maybe it'll get better again in the third book! Daughters of the North sounds intriguing, I'll have to check it out! :D
This is fantastic! I loved so many of these and many others are on my radar. I'll really have to prioritize A Brave New World. Although Joe Hill is known for his horror novels, The Fireman is different and is a great post-apocalyptic tale. It's quite long but I found it read very quickly. I'd love to see you make a video on your favorite coming of age stories 🙂
Thank you so much! :D The Fireman sounds very good, I'll add it to my TBR. And I can put coming-of-age stories on the list and try to make a video like this about them! :D
while i love hunger games i've read it for the first time after the third film has come out and I didn't want to wait for the finale. but sort of instead of hunger games the dystopian series I was reading is the book of ember series. and it really stuck to me. especially the third book, that's basically a prequel about how the end of the world happened. and I still think about that book a lot.
I love your recommendation videos because we have very similar reading tastes and our GR ratings tend to be eerily similar so I’m set to love a book if you do too! I also love John Wyndham and want to try more from him, he has a huge collection and a bunch of short stories too( would love a JW specific video/ reading vlog!) I’m going to pick up the book of the unnamed midwife as I haven’t tried that yet and sounds right up my street. You should give the end we start from by Megan Hunter a try if you haven’t yet- left me thinking for a while!
Someone help me please. So, a few years ago I’ve read a dystopian book about a world where everything’s controlled by the government and there’s a girl and her family and the 1st part of those series is about her life. But then she meets a boy (Kyle his name was???idk) and it changes everything. I totally forgot the name of the book and the author. The girl also has a younger brother. One day their home is raided by the government or something like this. If someone here knows this, please please tell me the name of the books. There were also something about the paintings the girl loved and the flowers. Sorry for such a stupid description but I really need to finish the series lol😂
triffiiiiiiiids! 🌿❤️🌿❤️ i have a feeling you're gonna get on well with the Chrysalids - i heard it was a big inspiration for Margaret Atwood, and also it reads weirdly like modern YA dystopian fiction despite being written so long ago. i just finished Dawn and liked it a lot, tho i have mixed feelings i suppose. definitely going to read the rest of the trilogy at some point. i really like "apocalypse" books more than dystopian or post-apocalyptic ones but i find there are actually not that many out there? or else i'm not looking in the right places.....
Yeeees! Triffids is so good! Really looking forward to Chrysalids. I find it difficult to find post-apocalyptic books too, at least adult ones! Although maybe we're both looking in the wrong places xD EDIT: Reading through the comments now, you might find some recommendations, there are loads! :D
@@TheBookCastle ahh actually it's not post-apocalyptic stuff i'm into, like after everyone's established a new way of surviving or whatever, but actually apocalyptic, like the world is in the process of ending. yes i'm picky like that =P
I wonder why nobody seems to have The White Plague by Frank L. Herbert on the apocalyptic reading list anymore. Everybody tends to rave about the Hunger Games which are just an instagram version of Mad Max. Why not laud Brave New Barbie Adventure 451 also known as The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld.
Have you read metro 2033? While I do think it falls flat in story progression, the world building and the comments it brings (especially now due to the Ukrain-russo war) just make it a favourite of mine
Yeaaaaaaaaah If you haven't read it yet, I think you'd enjoy Blindness by José Saramago. I hated Oryx and crake. Any time there's pedophilia in a story, I'm just NO. NO NO NO NO NO.
1984 we all read for high school back in the 1960's, I was not happy about the view of the world. I read Handmaiden's Tale when it first came out and it was a disgusting world and as a woman made me feel cynical. Hunger games I enjoyed. I read Soylent Green in the 1970's and it was a shocker to read. I really like the series The Uglies. I also liked Wool.
I read Dawn back in University, and it's really good but really weird! I've also read A Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. Oryx and Crake is one of my favorite books! It's very eerie.
My favorite 3 dystopian/post-apocalyptic books: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (a difficult read due to the "devolved English" its written in, but once you get past the language...)
I know of a great Dystopia i bet y'all have never heard of... "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I wanted to drive off a bridge by the end of part one. Ive never been so upset by a book. How can people to do that to one other. It's a hopeless bleak nightmare of a story in 3 volumes. Or, a serious chunk of the 20th century, depicting "life" (if you can call it that) in the Soviet Union. Or Kanan Makiya's "Republic of Fear", about Iraq under Saddam Hussain. 'Nuff said eh.
I too am a huge fan of dystopian books, & for similar reasons- they do provide a platform to address political and social issues. I particularly like ones that involve climate change and oligarchies. 🙄
Dystopian and apocalyptic literature is one of my favorite genres. I agree with all your classic choices. The Testament is a good sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. I read the Madd Adams trilogy earlier this year and it was good. My favorites in this genre are The Stand by Stephen King and Swan Song by Robert McCammon. The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler are also excellent. Definitely will check out The Chrysalids.
Really need to read both The Stand and Parable of the Sower! :D
I loved the stand, but a rewread Opened my eyes how bad it acutaly is and pointless (no character development, they stay the same) does not change sociaty it stays largly the same, just that a lot of people are dead. And what is the point of ending 4 people to vegas? Them going there has no effect on the ending. And why is nadine the only one who has no free will, exept the one moment she jumps? Why is king so sexist against women why ate thry just Props? Why jave These characters no deeped after 1000+ Pages? Stu is the same as he started, larry has not realy changed has he? The only one who jad some for of change in mind Was loyd, not realy he did the same at the beginning of his Story. A Bad Story utter pointless.
2009 - One Second After (American writer William R. Forstchen)
2015 - One Year After (A John Matherson Novel)
2017 - The Final Day (A John Matherson Novel)
I like the type of apocalyptic books that show the very beginning of the threat to the people before they know what’s coming.
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Great video!
There are two Cold War era novels that you may want to try-On the Beach by Nevil Shute and Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. Another classic is George Stewart’s Earth Abides.
Great recommendations! Some of my favorites include The Road, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World and The Dog Stars
The road was aweful, in my opinion
A favorite genre for sure! When you decide to read Oryx and Crake I highly recommend reading the books back to back as there are a lot of details and characters to remember and with the way the book is structured, it’s easier to read the trilogy at once. Don’t let this intimidate you though as they are quick and engrossing reads.
Oooh, I'll keep that in mind, thank you for letting me know! :D
You overlooked two classics of that genre: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ( there's a very good old movie) and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which supposedly was the inspiration for Orwell's 1984. Speaking of the Day of the Triffids,there is also a very good old movie about it. I don't remember if is from Hammer Studios.
I read The Stand for the first time in early 2020... Maybe not a great time to read it, but a great book!
Also, Brave New World has been my favourite book since I first read it when I was 13 years old, such an amazing read, every time.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy is a dystopia on steroids. It's dark, it fosters despair, it's about how low the human race can sink, but also its tale of a man trying to save his son will move you to tears. Oh, yeah, and it won a Pulitzer Prize.
Such a great video, thank you for the awesome suggestions!! ☺️
I highly recommend "under the blue". Found it in a bookshop i Romania as the author is from Romania, but lives in England I believe. Great dystopian novel. Resembles station eleven.
Thanks for the recommendations, I really enjoy dystopian books too! Another futuristic dystopian with feminist themes I would recommend is Vox by Christina Dalcher, it was super messed up in a good way!
Oooh yes, I've heard about Vox, definitely need to read that one! :D
Check out Wool by Hugh Howey, excellent dystopian. My favorite post apocalyptic is Grey By Lou Cadle, it is 3 short books.
Awesome, I'll add them to my list! :D
YES! The Wool trilogy was GREAT!
Great list and The Chrysalids is really good! I love John Wyndham and his "cozy" scifi approach haha.
Yes, exactly! :D
I was going to mention Chrysalids too. So friggin' good.
Someone I would put on nearly equal footing and similar style to Wyndham is John Christopher. The Death Of Grass and the Tripods series - highly rec.
@@brianlehman710 Absolutely this one. I remember reading The Death of Grass back in the day and thinking, "Yes, this is how it would happen." It's realistically bleak and there are some nasty people out there that would take advantage of the breakdown of civilised society.
A little unrelated, but if you love 1984, check out The Resistance album by Muse, which was heavily based off of it (as well as some of their other albums/songs; such as many from Drones). Muse is an amazing band… out of this world, really.
I remembered what a cheesy B movie Day of the Triffids was back in the 50s or 60s. Surprised how good the book was.
This is my favorite genre. I’ve added so many books to my TBR because of this video. Thank you!
Yaaay, glad you found some new ones to add to your TBR :D
Great video - lots of my favourites here. I am totally with you on John Wyndham. Last year I read Day of the Triffids and it totally blew me away, I think about it a lot. So recently I bought 4 more of his books so that I can read his other classics. Sounds like we thought the same thing....
Exactly my thinking! :D
Thanks for all the recommendations! The Day of the Triffids sounds interesting. Also agree on Station Eleven being scary like silence-felt exactly like that especially in the parts set after the plague.
Triffids is fantastic! :D And yes, exactly!
I think it was Bad. Soecialy zhe portrail of women. And that the triffid are so not the maine plot. The beginning was realy good but it falls short where fast.
Another book I never hear anyone talk about is "The last one at the party" by B. Clift - it's a post-apocalyptic book about one woman's journey in the aftermath of a pandemic (which killed almost everyone). I've actually really enjoyed, it's written very realistically and is quite psychological.
Oooh, I've never heard of that but it's going straight on my TBR! Thank you! :D
I haven't read The Children of Men by P.D James but the movie (Children of Men) is outstanding. It's an English The Handmaid's Tale. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is also excellent, both the book and the movie.
I've never heard of that one, sounds fantastic! :D
Hi, Alice! You should definitely read Blindness, by José Saramago. It really looks right up your alley. 😊
I'll add it to the list, thank you! :D
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I don't know if you read an older comment, but I just discovered you. I wanted to suggest
The Postman
Brin, David
also
The Lathe of Heaven
Le Guin, Ursula K.
and finally
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Fletcher, C.A.
Added The Day of the Triffids to my most-anticipated-wishlist. Never heard of it before!! Sounds like my kind of book!!
Awesome, hope you like it! :D
Thanks, you've got some great books on your list (a couple that I haven't read but will look into). Love John Wyndham! A couple that I would recommend are The Farm by Joanne Ramos (a modern take on The Handmaid's Tale) and an older book (1995) by Jose Saramago called Blindness (a dark and disturbing novel with a frightening view of a society where you have rulers and dissidents). Happy reading.
I have two recommendations: The Grace Year by Kim Liggett and Animal Farm by George Orwell. For people who aren't too excited about Orwell, Animal Farm is short, easy to read, entertaining, it's got animals, and is super relevant. I just finished The Grace Year and I loved it.
You should check out The Passage by Justin Cronin! Another great post apocalypse series! One Second After by William Forstchen is also fantastic series, terrifying but really good!
I loved The Day of the Triffids!
Awesome, thank you for the recommendations! :D
I loved that series. I’m sad that I know what happens. I’ve read it twice.
Really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on all of these. There's lots here that I'd like to read. Definitely want to read The Handmaid's Tale and The History of Bees ☺
Great recommendations! Also yellow is a fantastic color on you! 💗📚📖
Thank you so much, Krissy! :D
I love (Post) Apocalyptic books and as soon as something is described as apocalyptic I‘m interested 🙈
One of my absolute favourites is The Stand by Stephen King, you should try it out (the unabridged version that is).
Love your videos!
xx K
Definitely need to read the Stand one day! :D Thank you!
Dystopian Novel : The End Of Silence by George Ernest
First time visiting your channel and what AMAZING books you covered in your video!!! I agree with your comments regarding "1984" ... after you read it, it just stays with you. His "Animal Farm" is also brilliant! I'm going to check out a number of these books ... thanks so much for covering such an awesome selection of books in this category!
Dystopia is my favorite genre, I have the Day of the Triffids and 1984 are both on my 2021 TBR hopefully I’ll get to them soon🙂 I loved the Handmaid’s tale and the graphic novel is good as well and I really want to read the Testaments. Station Eleven was amazing 🤩 have you read the Road by Cormac McCarthy ? Or I am Legend? I think you’ll like these two.
I hope you'll love them both! I haven't read The Road but really want to, although I read I Am Legend years and years ago and don't remember much from it xD
Ohmygosh. The Road was a masterpiece.
@@tiffanycorsello1886 it definitely is 😀
Read Wool by Hugh Howey. It’s the first of the Silo series.
Hi can you do a video review of the Keeper of Rhymes kindle ebook please...it seems the plot is completely mental! But i want to make sure by watching a review before i buy😅
Seriously im so intrigued and now I really want to get my hands on dystopian novels even though I've read handmaids tale and 1984 but the books by John Wyndam sounds interesting in a very unique way and I also want to read orher books that you've mentioned.
You actually know to increase my Tbr ❤😂
Yaaay, I'm glad you found some stuff you're interested in! :D
The Martydom of Man by William Winwood Reade. Anything by H.P. Lovecraft. The Prince by Machiavelli. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Moby Dick by Herman Mellvile. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Star Ship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Animal Farm by George Orwell. Rip Van Winkle by ?.
There were a lot of books here I have not seen before that looked really interesting! Will have to try some of them out! =D
"The Slynx" by Tatyana Tolstaya. An extraordinary masterpiece.
Not post-apocalyptic, but Train Dreams by Dennis Johnson gives me that same desolate vibe that I think you would like
Oooh, awesome! :D
I read Zed for Zachariah when I was at school.
Was it good? I only know the movie and i Kind of hated the ending.
Loved this! Many of these are on my All Time Favorites list, and 2 books: The History of Bees and The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, were recommendations from you which I loved. I also need to read The Book of Flora- because I want to see how it ends. I was also disappointed by the second book- mainly because the first was SO good. I'm going to browse your shelf on goodreads! A dystopian book I love that's not well known: Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall- it isn't a perfect novel, but it has stuck with me, I think about it a lot.
Thank you! :D It's always so fun to hear people have read my recs and loved them :D The first book in the Midwife series is hard to follow up, I agree, but maybe it'll get better again in the third book! Daughters of the North sounds intriguing, I'll have to check it out! :D
This is fantastic! I loved so many of these and many others are on my radar. I'll really have to prioritize A Brave New World. Although Joe Hill is known for his horror novels, The Fireman is different and is a great post-apocalyptic tale. It's quite long but I found it read very quickly. I'd love to see you make a video on your favorite coming of age stories 🙂
Thank you so much! :D The Fireman sounds very good, I'll add it to my TBR. And I can put coming-of-age stories on the list and try to make a video like this about them! :D
Have you read "Blindness" by Jose Saramago? - it's really bleak, but an amazing book. (he's a fascinating writer)
I haven't heard of that one! :D
while i love hunger games i've read it for the first time after the third film has come out and I didn't want to wait for the finale. but sort of instead of hunger games the dystopian series I was reading is the book of ember series. and it really stuck to me. especially the third book, that's basically a prequel about how the end of the world happened. and I still think about that book a lot.
Aaah, that's interesting! :D
Very good collection. I have read most of them.
Fantastic! :D
You should also read Prey World by Alexander Merow
I love your recommendation videos because we have very similar reading tastes and our GR ratings tend to be eerily similar so I’m set to love a book if you do too! I also love John Wyndham and want to try more from him, he has a huge collection and a bunch of short stories too( would love a JW specific video/ reading vlog!) I’m going to pick up the book of the unnamed midwife as I haven’t tried that yet and sounds right up my street. You should give the end we start from by Megan Hunter a try if you haven’t yet- left me thinking for a while!
Thank you so much! :D How fun that we have similar tastes. I hope you like The Unnamed Midwife, it's such a great book! :D
I loved station eleven so read severance and also really enjoyed it!
Both great reads indeed! :D
I bought Severance after reading Station Eleven. Station Eleven is in my top 5 books of all time
a lot of great recommendations, i loved station 11, as well as 1984 and bnw :-)
Awesome! :D
Add ‘Ridley Walker’ by Russell Hoban… THAT is dystopian post apocalypse fiction for sure…
Thank you
Parable of the sower was so good
Definitely need to read it! :D
Parable of the Sower was amazing! You’ll love it.
Someone help me please. So, a few years ago I’ve read a dystopian book about a world where everything’s controlled by the government and there’s a girl and her family and the 1st part of those series is about her life. But then she meets a boy (Kyle his name was???idk) and it changes everything. I totally forgot the name of the book and the author. The girl also has a younger brother. One day their home is raided by the government or something like this. If someone here knows this, please please tell me the name of the books. There were also something about the paintings the girl loved and the flowers. Sorry for such a stupid description but I really need to finish the series lol😂
Scythe trilogy by Neal shusterman!!
Great books. Especially 1984💙
It's the best! :D
Thanks for the content 👊, please make a list of conspiracy books too
:D
triffiiiiiiiids! 🌿❤️🌿❤️ i have a feeling you're gonna get on well with the Chrysalids - i heard it was a big inspiration for Margaret Atwood, and also it reads weirdly like modern YA dystopian fiction despite being written so long ago. i just finished Dawn and liked it a lot, tho i have mixed feelings i suppose. definitely going to read the rest of the trilogy at some point. i really like "apocalypse" books more than dystopian or post-apocalyptic ones but i find there are actually not that many out there? or else i'm not looking in the right places.....
Yeeees! Triffids is so good! Really looking forward to Chrysalids. I find it difficult to find post-apocalyptic books too, at least adult ones! Although maybe we're both looking in the wrong places xD EDIT: Reading through the comments now, you might find some recommendations, there are loads! :D
@@TheBookCastle ahh actually it's not post-apocalyptic stuff i'm into, like after everyone's established a new way of surviving or whatever, but actually apocalyptic, like the world is in the process of ending. yes i'm picky like that =P
I wonder why nobody seems to have The White Plague by Frank L. Herbert on the apocalyptic reading list anymore. Everybody tends to rave about the Hunger Games which are just an instagram version of Mad Max. Why not laud Brave New Barbie Adventure 451 also known as The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld.
Have you read metro 2033? While I do think it falls flat in story progression, the world building and the comments it brings (especially now due to the Ukrain-russo war) just make it a favourite of mine
Tender is the Flesh.
9:15 it says it’s fiction not dystopian
Yeaaaaaaaaah
If you haven't read it yet, I think you'd enjoy Blindness by José Saramago.
I hated Oryx and crake. Any time there's pedophilia in a story, I'm just NO. NO NO NO NO NO.
Oooh, I'll have to add that to the list!
Love from India.
1984 we all read for high school back in the 1960's, I was not happy about the view of the world. I read Handmaiden's Tale when it first came out and it was a disgusting world and as a woman made me feel cynical. Hunger games I enjoyed. I read Soylent Green in the 1970's and it was a shocker to read. I really like the series The Uglies. I also liked Wool.
Awesome :)
I read Dawn back in University, and it's really good but really weird! I've also read A Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. Oryx and Crake is one of my favorite books! It's very eerie.
My favorite 3 dystopian/post-apocalyptic books:
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (a difficult read due to the "devolved
English" its written in, but once you get past the language...)
I know of a great Dystopia i bet y'all have never heard of...
"The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
I wanted to drive off a bridge by the end of part one. Ive never been so upset by a book. How can people to do that to one other.
It's a hopeless bleak nightmare of a story in 3 volumes.
Or, a serious chunk of the 20th century, depicting "life" (if you can call it that) in the Soviet Union.
Or Kanan Makiya's "Republic of Fear", about Iraq under Saddam Hussain. 'Nuff said eh.
Completely different genre
I too am a huge fan of dystopian books, & for similar reasons- they do provide a platform to address political and social issues. I particularly like ones that involve climate change and oligarchies. 🙄
I highly recommend Sea of tranquility and A psalm for the wild build! 🪐