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  • 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
    In the drab and oppressive world of 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell introduces us to Winston Smith, a man haunted by the omnipresent surveillance and control exercised by the Party and its enigmatic leader, Big Brother. Winston works diligently at the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to alter historical records to fit the ever-changing narrative dictated by the...
    By George Orwell
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  • I Who Have Never Known Men
    A haunting, heartbreaking tale of female friendship and intimacy that evokes the chilling atmospheres of The Handmaid's Tale and the desolate landscapes of The Road, I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman is a story that lingers long after the last page is turned. This gripping narrative takes us deep underground, where thirty-nine women are held in isolation...
    By Jacqueline Harpman
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  • The Giver
    In a perfect world, Jonas begins to see the flaws… The Giver is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, and Taylor Swift. It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in the community wants for anything....
    By Lois Lowry
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  • The Testaments
    In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred? THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred? 'The Testaments is Atwood...
    By Margaret Atwood
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  • Scythe
    A dark, gripping, and witty thriller in which the only thing humanity has control over is death. In a world where disease, war, and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to...
    By Neal Shusterman
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  • Operation Bounce House
    From the author of the sensational global bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series comes a brand new epic standalone... All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do is run the family ranch and keep his family's aging fleet of intelligent agriculture bots ticking. But when his planet's transfer gate finally opens and restores instant travel and full communication between Earth and...
    By Matt Dinniman
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  • The Road
    The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside,...
    By Cormac McCarthy
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  • Wool
    An epic story of survival at all odds, now a major Apple TV series. NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF AppleTV+, SILO. In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and...
    By Hugh Howey
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  • Alex's Pick
    The Ferryman
    'Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.' STEPHEN KING * The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean: in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity, or whatever remains of it... Surrounded by sun, and sea, and stars, their world is perfect. But every paradise comes at a price. When the truth...
    By Justin Cronin
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  • The Ministry of Time
    One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times A book of the year for the New York Times, Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, Spectator, Red, NPR, Vanity Fair, People, Slate, Advocate, Sydney Morning Herald, Globe and Mail, Den of Geek, Good Housekeeping, Goodreads, NetGalley and Smithsonian Magazine 'A sparkling delight' Observer 'Make room on your bookshelves...
    By Kaliane Bradley
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  • Mistborn
    Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson is a spellbinding entry into the annals of epic fantasy that subverts expectations and weaves an intricate tale of resistance and hope. Set in a meticulously crafted world where ash falls perpetually from the sky and a dark, omnipotent ruler governs with relentless cruelty, the novel plunges readers into a land steeped in despair yet brimming...
    By Brandon Sanderson
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  • The Enemy’s Daughter
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    The Enemy’s Daughter by Melissa Poett is a stunning reimagining of Tristan and Isolde set in a dystopian world woven with magic. An incredibly addictive debut YA enemies-to-lovers romantasy. Pre-Order Special! Receive a Character Art print with your purchase *selected at random ‘I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough!’ — Alwyn Hamilton ‘Magical, romantic and deeply nostalgic’ — Sarah Underwood...
    By Melissa Poett
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  • Divergent
    She turns to the future in a world that’s falling apart. The No. 1 New York Times bestseller Divergent – also a major motion picture. For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out alone, determined to find out where she truly...
    By Veronica Roth
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  • 1984
    1984 by George Orwell is a gripping tale set in a dystopian future where the world is embroiled in perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public manipulation. The story unfolds in Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania. Here, the Party, led by the enigmatic and omniscient Big Brother, exerts absolute power over...
    By George Orwell
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    The Ballad of Falling Dragons [Special Deluxe edition]
    The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling sensation When the Moon Hatched continues with the second book in The Moonfall Series, The Ballad of Falling Dragons… Raeve’s thirst for vengeance continues to burn, as does her love for Kaan Vaegor – a staunch beacon from a past she’s yet to face. With Rekk’s blood still fresh on her hands, she learns the...
    By Sarah A. Parker
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  • Red Rising
    The first book in the incredible New York Times bestselling series Darrow is a Helldiver, toiling beneath the surface of Mars. As a member of the Red caste, he performs grueling labor in the belief that his sacrifice will enable future generations to one day inhabit the surface of the Red Planet. The Reds are humankind's lowest caste, living in...
    By Pierce Brown
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  • The Handmaid's Tale
    The bestselling dystopian classic that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an award-winning TV series. THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER Go back to where it all began with the dystopian novel behind the award-winning TV series. 'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it.' Guardian I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no...
    By Margaret Atwood
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  • Artemis
    A twisty, high-concept thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the global phenomenon, The Martian. Artemis transports readers to the moon's first city, an industrial and tourist hub brimming with opportunity and danger. Jazz Bashara, a resident of Artemis, is far from the typical heroine. Living on the fringes of this lunar metropolis and struggling to make ends meet,...
    By Andy Weir
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    Broken Dove
    In the heart-pounding sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling dystopian romance Silver Elite, Wren finds herself caught in the middle of two wars – one for the fate of her home and another for the fate of her heart. In the sequel to Silver Elite, lines will be crossed, loyalties will be tested, and the fight for the Continent is...
    By Dani Francis
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  • The Stand
    In The Stand by Stephen King, humanity is brought to its knees by an unstoppable plague, an influenza strain known as "Captain Trips," which devastates the globe, wiping out nearly the entire population. As civilisation collapses, survivors are haunted by vivid dreams that pull them towards two opposing figures: the benevolent, elderly Mother Abagail and the sinister Randall Flagg, the...
    By Stephen King
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  • The Maze Runner Series - 5 Book Collection
    The Maze Runner Series - 5 Book Collection
    The Maze Runner Series - 5 Book Collection by James Dashner is a thrilling set of novels that will capture the imagination of readers everywhere. Enter a mysterious world filled with intricate mazes, dangerous creatures, and a group of teens fighting to survive. This collection includes all five books in the series, allowing readers to immerse themselves fully in the...
    By James Dashner
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  • The Raven at the Ash Door
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    The Raven at the Ash Door
    A second Monster War is on the horizon . . . From bestselling author K. A. Linde, The Raven at the Ash Door is the heart-stopping third book in this addictive dark romantasy series, following The Robin on the Oak Throne. Perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Leigh Bardugo. . . . Kierse is struggling to return as...
    By K. A. Linde
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  • Animal Farm
    A landmark in modern literature, Animal Farm by George Orwell is a timeless fable about the dangers of power and corruption. The story begins with Mr Jones, the negligent and frequently intoxicated owner of Manor Farm, who fails to care for his animals. Incited by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, the animals revolt, oust Mr Jones, and seize control of...
    By George Orwell
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    To Cage a Wild Bird
    The Hunger Games meets Prison Break in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance series that's perfect for fans of Veronica Roth and Tahereh Mafi who loved the 2010s dystopian era and are looking for the adult version of those books. A deadly prison. A forbidden romance. A fight for survival. THERE'S ONLY ONE RULE IN ENDLOCK- OBEY OR DIE. In Dividium, all...
    By Brooke Fast
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  • Operation Bounce House
    From the author of the sensational global bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series comes a brand new epic standalone . . . All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do is run the family ranch and keep his family's aging fleet of intelligent agriculture bots ticking. But when his planet's transfer gate finally opens and restores instant travel and full communication...
    By Matt Dinniman
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  • Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
    As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honour of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day...
    By Suzanne Collins
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  • The Handmaid's Tale
    The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a gripping and thought-provoking dystopian novel that has left an indelible mark on contemporary literature. Set in the near-future Republic of Gilead, a theocratic and totalitarian society that has replaced the United States, the story explores themes of power, control, and female subjugation. At the centre of this harrowing world is Offred, a...
    By Margaret Atwood
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  • Daggermouth
    Daggermouth
    Daggermouth is one of the best dystopian romances I've ever read." Clio Evans, author of Broken Beginnings. He Is Her Ruin. She Is His Rebellion. The first thing you'll learn in New Found Haven is mercy no longer exists. Showing mercy is a weakness, and weakness will get you killed. The second thing is this — the Veyra are always...
    By H. M. Wolfe
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  • The End of the World as We Know It
    Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered No. 1 bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King's seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are other extraordinary works exploring the unravelling of human society, none have been as influential as this iconic novel - with generations of...
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  • The Testaments
    The tie-in edition of the upcoming Disney+ TV adaptation. **THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE** In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred? The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different...
    By Margaret Atwood
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  • The Measure
    ‘GRIPPING AND POIGNANT’ Ruth Hogan, bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things ‘CLEVER AND ENTERTAINING’ Good Housekeeping ‘A THOUGHT-PROVOKING READ’ Prima Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like just another morning. Around the world, people wake up, check the news, open the front door. On every doorstep is a box. Inside that box is the exact number...
    By Nikki Erlick
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  • Brave New World
    Brave New World is still one of the most shocking, unnerving and prophetic novels ever written. Mass-consumerism, individualism, total reliance on technology—it is a future that appears to be here already. Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Introduced by Margaret Atwood Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself....
    By Aldous Huxley
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  • Piper at the Gates of Dusk
    The first in a new trilogy set in the world of the groundbreaking Chaos Walking series, which has sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide.·“In a world full of Noise, the CHAOS WALKING trilogy delivered a razor-sharp take on humanity and morality even more relevant now than when it was first published.” Neal ShustermanNow, almost twenty years on, Patrick Ness makes...
    By Patrick Ness
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  • Alex's Pick Alex's Pick
    This is How You Lose the Time War
    This Is How You Lose the Time War by award-winning authors Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar is a breathtaking and innovative love story that defies the typical boundaries of time and space. Amidst the ashes of a desolate world, two rival agents from warring futures—Red, an elite warrior from a technologically advanced dystopia, and Blue, a sleeper agent from a...
    By Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
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  • I Who Have Never Known Men
    The ultimate feminist dystopian novel. Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, these women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollections of their lives before. As the burn of...
    By Jacqueline Harpman
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  • Station Eleven
    CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Now an HBO Max original TV series The New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction National Book Awards Finalist PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in...
    By Emily St. John Mandel
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  • Metro 2035
    A BRIGHTER PAST. A DARKER FUTURE. The year is 2035. It's been twenty years since World War Three wiped out humankind. The only survivors were those who made it through the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow city. It's there, hundreds of feet below the ground, that they try to outlive the end of the days. But...
    By Dmitry Glukhovsky
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  • Empire of the Damned
    The highly anticipated sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling Empire of the Vampire — "Bloody brilliant" V.E. Schwab "A ripping read" Joe Abercrombie Gabriel de León has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. After turning his back on his silversaint brothers once and for all, Gabriel and the Grail set...
    By Jay Kristoff
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  • The Hunger Games
    In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister’s place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been...
    By Suzanne Collins
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  • Alastair's Pick Alastair's Pick
    Shift
    Shift, now a MAJOR TV Series, is the much-anticipated prequel to the bestseller Wool that takes us back to the beginnings of the silo. NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF APPLE TV+ In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. However, the truth is that...
    By Hugh Howey
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  • The Memory Police
    The Memory Police is a compelling and surreal, Orwellian mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, this enthralling Orwellian novel explores the terrors of state surveillance, showcasing the brilliance of its acclaimed author. 'Beautiful... Haunting' — Sunday Times 'A dreamlike story of dystopia' — Jia Tolentino Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people...
    By Yoko Ogawa
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  • Daughter of Crows
    Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters.'I never met a Mark Lawrence book that I didn't love' ROBIN HOBB'An excellent writer' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies – The Kindly Ones – against whom even the gods hesitate to stand.Each...
    By Mark Lawrence
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  • Red Rising (Deluxe Slipcase Edition)
    The first novel of Pierce Brown’s iconic, New York Times bestselling Red Rising Saga, now in a stunning deluxe hardcover edition, featuring: Illustrated slipcase with foil Designed sprayed edges New cover and full wrap-around book case art Fold-out poster Full-colour illustrated endpapers with a new map Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the colour-coded society...
    By Pierce Brown
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  • Green City Wars
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    In a city of sunshine and secrets, the shadows belong to the animals. In a solar-powered future, humans live in luxury, served by unseen Little Helpers—artificially enhanced animals who maintain their perfect green cities. The animals' number one rule: 'Do Not Bother the Humans'. Yet beneath this tranquil façade, a complex underworld of animal politics, crime, and conflict thrives. Enter...
    By Adrian Tchaikovsky
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  • Silver Elite
    FOURTH WING meets DIVERGENT in this propulsive, dystopian romance debut where a young woman must conceal her psychic powers as she is forced to train with the very people looking to kill her. In the first book of a sizzling dystopian romance series, psychic gifts are a death sentence and there are rules to survival— Trust no one. Lie to...
    By Dani Francis
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  • Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2)
    Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are still alive. Katniss should be relieved, but now there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol – a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. As the nation watches Katniss and Peeta, the stakes are higher than ever. One false move and the consequences will be unimaginable. Catching...
    By Suzanne Collins
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  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games: Deluxe Edition)
    The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games: Deluxe Edition) by Suzanne Collins follows the ambitious young Coriolanus Snow as he grasps his one shot at glory as a mentor in the tenth annual Hunger Games. Determined to outcharm, outwit, and outmanoeuvre his fellow students, Coriolanus aims to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are stacked against him: he...
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  • The Handmaid's Tale
    Compulsively readable Daily Telegraph The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual...
    By Margaret Atwood
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  • Klara and the Sun
    From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest...
    By Kazuo Ishiguro
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  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games)
    The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is centred around Coriolanus Snow, who has one shot at glory as a mentor in the tenth annual Hunger Games. He plans to outcharm, outwit, and outmanoeuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him: he has been given the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the...
    By Suzanne Collins
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  • Parable of the Sower
    This first EARTHSEED novel by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feels like a prophetic nod to our current world. If you were glued to THE HANDMAID'S TALE, you'll love this beautiful new edition of a seminal American classic. 'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already...
    By Octavia E. Butler
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  • The Compound
    Lord of the Flies meets Love Island – dark, thrilling, and delightfully twisted’ LOUISE O'NEILL ‘So gripping and propulsive that it beats reality TV at its own game. Why watch TV when Aisling Rawle does it better?’ TORREY PETERS ‘A clever and delicious treat’ ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS ‘Page-turning, nail-biting… utterly bingeable’ OLIVIA GATWOOD You wake up in a compound in...
    By Aisling Rawle
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  • The Merge
    How far would you go to never say goodbye?Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer’s. Her beloved daughter Amelia, twenty-three, cannot bear to see her mother - and her memories - fade.Faced with the reality of losing her forever, Amelia signs mother and daughter up to take part in a world first experimental merging process for Alzheimer’s patients, in which Laurie’s ailing mind will be transferred into Amelia’s...
    By Grace Walker
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  • The Rise of Magicks
    "On the shield, one of seven forged in the timeless past to hold back the dark, fell a single drop of blood. So the shield weakened, and the dark, spider-patient, waited as the decades passed, and the wound spread under the grass and ground." The brilliant conclusion to the Chronicles of the One trilogy - an epic story of love,...
    By Nora Roberts
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  • Animal Farm
    Animal Farm by George Orwell is a compelling and satirical allegory that delves into the dynamics of power, corruption, and politics within a seemingly utopian environment. Set on Manor Farm, the story begins with the animals growing increasingly dissatisfied with their neglectful and inebriated owner, Farmer Jones. Inspired by a visionary and idealistic boar named Old Major, the animals dream...
    By George Orwell
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  • Cloud Atlas
    In Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, a complex tapestry of interwoven narratives unfolds across different time periods and locations, each story impacting the others in profound and unexpected ways. The tale begins in 1850 with a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific Ocean and follows a disinherited composer striving to make his mark in pre-World War II Belgium. Later, readers are...
    By David Mitchell
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  • Dust
    The much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy. In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order. Some embrace the change, others fear the unknown; none have control of their fate. The Silo is still in danger. There are those set on its destruction. Jules knows they must be stopped....
    By Hugh Howey
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  • Metro 2034
    The basis of three bestselling computer games: Metro 2033, Metro Last Light, and Metro: Exodus. The Metro books have put Dmitry Glukhovsky in the vanguard of Russian speculative fiction alongside the creator of Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko. A year after the events of Metro 2033, the last few survivors of the apocalypse, surrounded by mutants and monsters, face a terrifying...
    By Dmitry Glukhovsky
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  • Acceptance
    A contemporary masterpiece Guardian The third volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach Trilogy – now a major motion picture written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina) and starring Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, and Tessa Thompson. One last, desperate team embarks across the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking....
    By Jeff VanderMeer
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Dystopian Fiction

Dystopian Fiction explores imagined futures where society has taken a darker turn, worlds shaped by authoritarian control, environmental collapse, unchecked technology, or the quiet erosion of personal freedom. These stories ask confronting questions about power, truth, identity, and what it means to resist when the odds are stacked against you.

From unsettling near-future scenarios that feel uncomfortably close to home, to fully realised speculative worlds that challenge how societies function, dystopian novels combine gripping storytelling with sharp social commentary. Expect tense plots, morally complex characters, and ideas that linger long after the final page.

Whether you’re drawn to political dystopias, climate-driven futures, survival stories, or thought-provoking classics of the genre, this collection brings together powerful reads that reflect our fears, warnings, and hopes for the future.

Perfect for readers who enjoy fiction that is bold, challenging, and impossible to ignore.