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The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
Dystopia, dark in tone, set in far future.
“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
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Start with The Hunger Games →
includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels
The Handmaid's TaleSeries
series3 books1985
Dystopia, dark in tone, about totalitarianism and gender and society.
“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →
Unwind DystologySeries
series5 books2007
Dystopia, dark in tone, about genetic engineering.
“The first novel follows three teens fleeing that fate, and the sequels widen the same dystopia's cast and consequences across a four-book arc plus companion material.”
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Start with Unwind →
Farnham's FreeholdNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1964
Post-apocalyptic and time travel, about race and racism.
TripodsSeries
series4 books1967
completed
Post-apocalyptic, about aliens, set in our world.
“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →
Alas, BabylonNovel
Pat Frankstandalone novel1959
Post-apocalyptic, hopeful in tone, set in mid 20th century and small town.
“Classic novel of nuclear war and aftermath in rural Florida.”
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