I’m coming out of a looong reading slump and looking for a book to be obsessed with haha! I want to experience that feeling of being unable to put a book down that I haven’t felt in a long time. I really enjoy beautiful writing styles, dystopian/speculative plots and soul-crushing romance. Most of all, I think I really want the drama!!!!!!!!! Give me the messiness!!!!
Some examples of books that gave me this feeling are Call Me By Your Name, Never Let Me Go, Normal People, The Song of Achilles, Wool, The Martian, Everything I Never Told You, Bunny, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World. From my teen years, the classics of THG and The Selection are good examples too.:)
by pickaperiwinkle
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If you liked The Martian, give Project Hail Mary a try.
Oryx and Crake (#1 MaddAddam trilogy) by Jo Walton
The Just City (#1 Thessaly trilogy) by Jo Walton
I’m not sure what you’re going to be obsessed with, so I’m hesitant to suggest anything. But you read “The Martian,” I can wholeheartedly recommend his *Project Hail Mary.* And in the same vein, Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series is quite good. *The Calculating Stars* is book one, premise is “asteroid hits Earth in the fifties, life on earth will all die after n-years.” So it has an alternate history based on actual science with a post-apocalyptic feel. And finally, Martha Wells’s MurderBot series, first one is *All Systems Red*, and MurderBot is entirely relatable if you are even a little antisocial.
Give NK Jemisin a try! She writes awesome books. Her Broken Earth trilogy won Hugo awards for each book and they were well deserved. Great prose. Great dystopian drama and themes of womanhood and prejudice. It’s fantasy-ish and post apocalyptic. First book is The Fifth Season.
Alif the Unseen
How high we go in the dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu. I think I’m gonna reread this pretty soon myself.
Poster Girl by Veronica Roth ticks all your boxes
My favorite literary dystopias:
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Sleepless by Charlie Huston
Fiend by Peter Stenson
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
Our American King by David Lozell Martin
Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh is interesting…it’s dystopian New York (like, specifically only New York)
The Foxhole Court
Dystopian Literary Fiction:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Song of Stone by Iain Banks
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
If you liked Never Let Me Go, maybe try more of Kazuo Ishiguro’s work: The Buried Giant, Klara and the Sun, Remains of the Day, etc.
Murderbot Diaries. Trust me.
Oh yes, i was waiting for THG to be listed, well what i really enjoyed was the silo series. It’s mainly dystopian/ post-apocalyptic kind of book.
People like you- Yurell Benítez Borrego. I promise you this book will keep u engage until the last page! So worthy to look at it
Alas, Babylon
Chaing gang all stars
The Long Afternoon of Earth is a really good dystopian book.