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Micaiah Johnson · 2020 · US · science fiction
★ 3.92 Goodreads · 47,742 ratings

Travel between parallel Earths is possible only to worlds where your other self has died, which makes Cara, dead in 372 of 380 worlds, valuable to the Eldridge Institute as a traverser, until one of her few surviving doubles dies.

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Dark Matter

Blake Crouch · 2016 · US 94% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 821,736 ratings
shares: alternate world, parallel worlds · suspenseful, easy read

Jason Dessen, a physics professor in Chicago, is abducted one night and wakes in a world where he never married his wife and became a celebrated scientist instead, and he will do anything to get home.

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon · 2017 · US 93% match ★ 3.95 Goodreads · 22,564 ratings
shares: dystopian, class, queer · earnest, interior

Aster, an outcast healer on the lower decks of the generation ship Matilda, which has travelled for centuries under a brutal, race-based hierarchy, finds clues in her dead mother's journals to the ship's secrets.

The Sea and Summer

George Turner · 1987 · Australia 92% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 1,078 ratings
shares: dystopian, class · idea-driven, interior

In the Melbourne of the mid twenty-first century, with the seas rising and most people unemployed and crammed into the tower blocks of the Swill, two brothers try to keep a hold on the life above it. Centuries later, historians study what they left.

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · 2008 · US 92% match ★ 4.36 Goodreads · 10,329,666 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Hunger Games
shares: dystopian, class, romantic · easy read, intricate plot

A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death in a televised arena to save her sister, and the games become a catalyst for revolution.

Terra Nullius

Claire G. Coleman · 2017 · Australia 90% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 4,394 ratings
shares: debut, dystopian · idea-driven, easy read

Jacky, a young Native man who has escaped from a mission, runs across a colonised land with Settlers and Troopers on his trail.

Wool

Hugh Howey · 2012 · US 89% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 296,200 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Silo
shares: dystopian, female perspective · easy read, earnest

Thousands of people live in a vast underground silo, and the worst crime is asking to go outside, until Juliette, a mechanic from the deep levels, is made sheriff and starts asking why.

Divergent

Veronica Roth · 2011 · US 89% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 4,503,130 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Divergent
shares: dystopian, identity, romantic · easy read, earnest

In a future Chicago divided into five factions, each devoted to a single virtue, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose where she belongs, and the test meant to guide her shows that she fits no single faction, a secret that could get her killed.

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Kate Wilhelm · 1976 · US 89% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 11,502 ratings
shares: dystopian, identity · easy read, earnest

As pollution and plague leave humanity sterile, the wealthy Sumner family, in their isolated Appalachian valley, prepare by building a hospital and a cloning laboratory.

Moxyland

Lauren Beukes · 2008 · South Africa 89% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 3,870 ratings
shares: debut, dystopian · speculative, deep world-building

In a near-future Cape Town where phones are also tools of state control, a corporate-sponsored art student, a rich kid, a blogger and a hacker are caught up in the same crackdown.

Trouble and Her Friends

Melissa Scott · 1994 · US 89% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 1,658 ratings
shares: queer, female perspective, romantic · earnest, speculative

India Carless, a hacker known as Trouble who quit the net when new laws made it dangerous, comes back when someone starts committing crimes under her name.

Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard · 2015 · US 89% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 1,228,617 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Red Queen
shares: twisty, dystopian, class · easy read, earnest

In a kingdom where silver-blooded nobles with powers rule red-blooded commoners, Mare Barrow, a Red thief, shows in front of the whole court that she has a power of her own, and the king hides her in plain sight as a lost Silver noblewoman.

The Peripheral

William Gibson · 2014 · US 89% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 34,424 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Jackpot
shares: alternate world · speculative, deep world-building

A young woman in near-future rural America takes a gig testing what she thinks is a video game and witnesses a murder in a London seventy years ahead.