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Margaret Atwood · 2019 · Canada · science fiction
Book 2 of 2 in The Handmaid's Tale
★ 4.20 Goodreads · 469,130 ratings

Fifteen years after The Handmaid's Tale, three women tell their stories: Aunt Lydia, one of the founders of Gilead's order of Aunts, a girl raised inside Gilead, and a teenager growing up in Canada.

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12 books for readers of The Testaments

The Power

Naomi Alderman · 2016 · UK 96% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 260,446 ratings
shares: dystopian, feminist, religious · easy read, idea-driven

Women around the world develop the ability to generate electrical jolts, and within a generation, the entire global power structure inverts.

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood · 2003 · Canada 96% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 296,119 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in MaddAddam
shares: dystopian · easy read, idea-driven

In a ruined world, Snowman, who may be the last human, remembers his friend Crake, a brilliant geneticist who built a new species, and the woman they both loved, in the first book of the MaddAddam trilogy.

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler · 1993 · US 95% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 301,377 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Earthseed
shares: dystopian, religious · easy read, idea-driven

As civilisation collapses from climate change and inequality, a young woman with a dangerous gift of empathy leads survivors north towards a new beginning.

The Children of Men

P. D. James · 1992 · UK 95% match ★ 3.66 Goodreads · 54,245 ratings
shares: dystopian, religious, political · easy read, speculative

In a near-future England where humanity has become infertile, a disillusioned historian is drawn into a resistance movement against a totalitarian government.

Wool

Hugh Howey · 2012 · US 94% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 296,200 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Silo
shares: dystopian, suspenseful · easy read, suspenseful

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.

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury · 1953 · US 94% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 3,008,439 ratings
shares: totalitarian, dystopian · easy read, idea-driven

A fireman whose job is to burn books begins to read them, and the act of thinking for himself makes him an enemy of the state.

Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng · 2022 · US 94% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 220,901 ratings
shares: totalitarian, dystopian, political · easy read, idea-driven

Bird Gardner, twelve, lives in a quiet America where laws against un-American behaviour have made Asian Americans suspects, and three years after his mother, a Chinese-American poet, left without a word, a letter from her arrives.

We

Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924 · Russia 94% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 120,686 ratings
shares: totalitarian, dystopian · idea-driven, speculative

In the One State, a city of glass a thousand years from now where every hour is scheduled, D-503, the mathematician building the spaceship Integral, begins a journal in praise of its perfect order, and then he meets I-330.

The Memory Police

Yoko Ogawa · 1994 · Japan 93% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 164,004 ratings
shares: totalitarian, dystopian · easy read, plain prose

On a nameless island, objects and memories disappear one by one under the eye of the Memory Police, and a young novelist hides a friend who still remembers.

Unwind

Neal Shusterman · 2007 · US 93% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 256,261 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Unwind Dystology
shares: dystopian, political · easy read, idea-driven

After a war fought over abortion, the law lets parents have their children unwound between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, their bodies taken apart for transplants, and three teenagers marked for it, Connor, Risa and Lev, go on the run.

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore · 1988 · UK 93% match ★ 4.26 Goodreads · 332,954 ratings
shares: totalitarian, dystopian, political · idea-driven, suspenseful

In a fascist post-nuclear Britain a man in a Guy Fawkes mask calling himself V blows up Parliament on the fifth of November and begins, methodically, to unmake the state that made him.

1984

George Orwell · 1949 · UK 92% match ★ 4.19 Goodreads
shares: totalitarian, dystopian, political · easy read, idea-driven

A man in a totalitarian superstate falls in love, commits thoughtcrime, and discovers that the Party's true weapon is not punishment but the erasure of truth itself.