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I Who Have Never Known Men

★★★★★
A group of women try to find their way in a post-apocalyptic world where they are the only survivors

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The Fat Years

★☆☆☆☆
A political commentary on the CCP disguised as science fiction

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Fahrenheit 451

★★★★★
Guy Montag burns books, and all other such illegal commodities. But when he is exposed to a world where people didn’t live in fear, Montag re-examines his life

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Never Let Me Go

★★★★☆
Kathy H, a carer for donors, reminisces about her time at Hailsham, a private institution where she spent her formative years, and her friends.

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I Am Legend

★★★★★
A plague has struck, and Robert Neville is the last man alive, and the rest of the world are undead vampires, thirsting for Neville's blood. He hunts them by day, and barricades himself by night. But how long will this continue...

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

★★★★★
A ruined post-apocalyptic world is slowly nursed back to civilization by a group of cloistered monks, following the teachings of a blessed Saint Leibowitz, a Jewish military engineer from before the fall.

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Red Rising

★☆☆☆☆
A group of teens fight each other brutally in a gladiatorial contest on Mars

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Super Sad True Love Story

★★☆☆☆
A hopeless romantic navigates a one-sided love affair while America crumbles around him. The story evolves from his diary and her social media account.

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We

★★★★☆
The grand original O.G. dystopian novel, that influenced everything from 1984 to Brave New World, and everyone from Kurt Vonnegut to Ayn Rand. D-503 of the totalitarian OneState is a mathematician who thinks in numbers and equations. But he discovers he has a soul, and passions...

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The Giver

★☆☆☆☆
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.

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Divergent

★☆☆☆☆
Tedious and pretentious young adult novel set in an unrealistic dystopian Chicago

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Station Eleven

★★★★☆
Story detailing the lives of a group people living before, through and after a pandemic wipes most of humanity. 'Survival is insufficient' - Star Trek Voyager

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The Handmaid's Tale

★★★☆☆
The Handmaid's Tale is an incredibly well-written dystopian tome, presented as a diary of "Handmaid", living in an extremely misogynistic, horrifying world.

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The Water Knife

★★★★☆
Paolo's second ecological dystopian (cli-fi?) novel sets the action in the arid American south west, where water is the most precious commodity.

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The Maze Runner

★☆☆☆☆
Another young-adult dystopian science fiction, in the mould of The Hunger Games

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Unwind

★☆☆☆☆
Young adult dystopian book which leaves the reader horrified and in a strange situation of not wanting to read anymore while wanting to finish the book...

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