What are some good dystopian books like "The Running Man", "The Long Walk" and "Battle Royale"?

Question

What are some good dystopian books like "The Running Man", "The Long Walk" and "Battle Royale"?

Answer 1

Try William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," Harry Harrison's "Make Room! Make Room!" and Liz Williams' short story "Voivodoi."

Answer 2

Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"

Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange"

P.D. James' "The Children of Men"

Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"

Answer 3

I do a blog about dystopian fiction. epicdystopia.blogspot.com

The Absent City (La Ciudad Ausente) by Ricardo Piglia

Acidity by Nadeem F. Paracha

Alongside Night by J. Neil Schulman

All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson

Ambient by Jack Womack

America 2014 by Dawn Blair

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Bar Code Rebellion by Suzanne Weyn

The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

Bear v. Shark by Chris Bachelder

Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov

The Book of Dave by Will Self

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch

The Children of Men by P.D. James

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

Chung Kuo by David Wingrove

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Count Zero by William Gibson

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Dark River by John Twelve Hawks

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Dayworld by Philip José Farmer

Dayworld Rebel by Philip José Farmer

Devil on my Back by Monica Hughes

The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson

Die Andere Seite by Alfred Kubin

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. d**k

Doc and Fluff by Patrick Califia

The Domination by S. M. Stirling

Dr. Identity by D. Harlan Wilson

Drowning Towers by George Turner

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov

Elvissey by Jack Womack

Facial Justice by L.P. Hartley

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fatherland by Robert Harris

Feed by M. T. Anderson

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells

Flow my tears, The Policeman Said, by Philip K. d**k

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger

Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

Halting State, Charles Stross

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Heathern by Jack Womack

The Hex series by Rhiannon Lassiter

Idoru by William Gibson

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

"If This Goes On — " by Robert A. Heinlein

In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster

Incal (and spinoffs) by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

The Iron Heel by Jack London

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner

Jennifer Government by Max Barry

Just Like Beauty by Lisa Lerner

Kallocain by Karin Boye

Kazohinia by Sándor Szathmári

The Last Election by Pete Davies

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald

Limbo, (vt. Limbo 90) by Bernard Wolfe

Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Long Walk by Stephen King

The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Love in the Time of the Apocalypse by Gregory Blecha

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. d**k

Market Forces by Richard Morgan

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem

Messenger by Lois Lowry

Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

Moscow 2042 by Vladimir Voinovich

My Melancholy Face by Heinrich Böll

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Nineteen Eighty-Five by Anthony Burgess