Top List of Distopia / Social Science Fiction Literature

[Manifest]

Post your top lists of dystopian and social science fiction and similar. Maybe I can find new books to read!

I'll start:

1. Limes inferior (Janusz A. Zajdel)
2. Paradise: World in Orbit (Janusz A. Zajdel)
3. Van Troff's Cylinder (Janusz A. Zajdel)
4. The Whole Truth about Planet Xi (Janusz A. Zajdel)
5. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
6. Exhalation (Ted Chiang)
7. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
8. Mockingbird (Walter Tevis)
9. Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
10. Coming out of the Shadow (Janusz A. Zajdel)
11. MaddAddam trilogy (Margaret Atwood)
12. Blindsight (Peter Watts)
13. Inverted World (Christopher Priest)
14. Echopraxia (Peter Watts)
15. Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
16. Starfish (Peter Watts)
17. Vertical (Rafał Kosik)
18. Solar Lottery (Philip K. Dick)
19. Nest of Worlds (Marek S. Huberath)
20. Zabijcie Odkupiciela (Grzegorz Drukarczyk)
21. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
22. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Philip K. Dick)
23. 7EW (Neal Stephenson)
24. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
25. Return from the Stars (Stanisław Lem)
26. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
27. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
28. Make Room! Make Room! (Harry Harrison)
29. Neuromancer (William Gibson)
30. Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
31. Recursion (Blake Crouch)
32. Stand on Zanzibar (John Brunner)
33. The Atopia Chronicles (Matthew Mather)
34. Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
35. Vox (Christina Dalcher)
36. Skin (Liam Brown)
37. Futu.re (Dmitry Glukhovsky)
38. Rejoice. A Knife to the Heart (Steven Erikson)

(I've included books with my rating of 6/10 and above, not all)

[Lisyonok]

I don´t read much scifi, but I have liked these books of the type:

Dmitri Glukhovsky - entire Metro trilogy (life in Moscow Metro after nuclear war)
Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (not actual dystopia, but some kind of surrealist scifi)

And Orwell´s 1984 is a classic, of course.

[Manifest]

I don´t read much scifi, but I have liked these books of the type:

Dmitri Glukhovsky - entire Metro trilogy (life in Moscow Metro after nuclear war)
Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (not actual dystopia, but some kind of surrealist scifi)

And Orwell´s 1984 is a classic, of course.

I'll definitely put Haruki Murakami books on my reading list. interesting concept!

[Incal]

On my 20's I used to read a lot of speculative fiction. Not anymore. I've read a couple from your list. I think I'd add The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (probably my fav distopian author) and 1984 by George Orwell, it's been too "commercialized" lately but still a classic. If you are looking for a recent one, I'd recommend The City and the City by China Miéville.

[Celestia]

Flowers for Algernon and Fahrenheit 451 (the movie was pitiful unfortunately) were some of my favorites growing up.

I’d like to add The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick), Red Clocks (Leni Dumas), We (Yevgeny Zamyatin), and Uglies (Scott Westerfeld)
They were all very thought provoking books.


-Your list is great, I now have some new books to read ^_^

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I have a difficult time reading fiction now. I only have the patience for non-fiction.

I read a few on your list. The best is "Clockwork Orange." I can't read Anthony Burgess' books except for that one. If it was a song it would be a one-hit wonder, IMO.

"Flowers for Algernon" was a close second. It almost made me gay in that I felt emotion. I had to do 1,000 push-ups afterward so I wouldn't be gay.

The most disappointing (the author is on the list but not this book) is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" It had some cool ideas but it just sucked. It was a better movie (Blade Runner) than book.

[Marsa]

I would recommend :
Cormac McCarthy - The Road ( it is darker and better than movie imo)

Jose Saramago - Blindness

I have read some on your list and my favourites are "Flowers for Algernon" and "Story of Your Life and Others."

"Make room! Make room!" is now on my list to read next, thanks

[Incal]

I would recommend :
Cormac McCarthy - The Road ( it is darker and better than movie imo)

I second that. Too much depressing tho. Had to watch comedies for an entire month after I finished that damn book.

[Not a Cop]

Used to love Dystopias when i was in teens\early 20-s but later this genre got pretty boring for me, anyway three pillars of genre:

We by Zamyatin
1984
Brave New World

Semi-dystopias but good books

When the Sleeper Wakes
I have no mouth and i must scream

[Mr.G]

Another Flowers for Algernon fan here, has always been one of my favorite books.

Sincerely,

Mr. Gay

Spoiler!

That's just a little joke for the Colonel. But seriously, awesome book.