Hello,
I really love Dystopian & Post Apocalyptic Audiobooks. Mainly, I see a lot of them from the usual points of views. Mainly it’s Crazy Religious Freaks, Super Mean Government, Climate Change, etc. You also have the plagues and zombies. Has anyone found books that just struck them as UNIQUE and game changing? Or just something that stood out to you as cool or even maddening? I would love to try it out.
Just to give you an idea, the ones I found that pop out in my mind are:
Oryx & Crake (even though it had similar elements, I was enthralled at the premise!)
Hugh Howey’s Silo Series (Wool, Shift, and Dust)
The Handmaid’s Tale
Klara and the Sun
The Giver Series
How High We Go In The Dark
Sleeping Beauties (Stephen King & Son)
The Dark Tower and everything attached to it.
I Am Legend (The real book)
The Running Man (The Real Book)
The Girl With All The Gifts (❤️)
I appreciate any suggestions. Thank you.
by Bethivus
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Wow! Just like my list. I would add The Boy on the Bridge (same person who wrote The Girl with all the Gifts). Also,
A Boy and his Dog at the end of the World
Hollow Kingdom
I’m actually just finishing the first of the trilogy. I love the way she writes and am really enjoying it. It’s different!
The Power by Naomi Alderman. It has a few different perspectives on what would happen if girls got a power that made them more physically intimidating than men.
* The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. Not post apocalyptic, but if Klara and the Sun counts as dystopian, I’d say this does too. A utopian society sends an ambassador to an authoritarian empire.
* Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin. This reminded me a lot of the classics such as The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, and Brave New World, but about transgender survivors in the apocalypse
* The Rifters series by Peter Watts, starting with Starfish. They’re all available as free ebooks on the author’s website. They don’t start out post apocalyptic, but then an apocalypse happens. To say more would spoil it! I’m super impressed by the real world science incorporated into these stories.
* Borne by Jeff VanderMeer. I’d say this is the most “conventional” post apocalyptic story on my list, but the author is well known for his surreal, dreamlike writing style. This book is similar to Oryx and Crake in a lot of ways.