Definitely check out:
* Black Boy and Native Son by Richard Wright
* The Autobiography of Malcolm X
* Parable of the Sower and Kindred by Octavia Butler
* Assata by Assata Shakur
* Revolutionary Suicide by Huey Newton
* Blood In My Eye by George Jackson
These books are great for many reasons, one of them being that they describe living in actual (as opposed to imaginary) dystopias. Only Native Son, Parable of the Sower, and Kindred are fiction, but they are definitely pretty realistic kinds of fiction if you know what I mean.
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Thank you for this. I’ve read Octavia Butler and Malcolm X but not the others.
Fun fact! 1984 is based off of the Russian novel We by Zamyatin. So another suggestion if anyone is interested! We can be hard to read sometimes but it’s honestly pretty good. Worth reading.