Brandon Sanderson Community discussion

Ive recently gotten into dystopian books and just wanted some suggestions

hunger games is the standard for all dystopia. but for a Sanderson fan I recommend reading steelheart.

Divergent & legion series were good, and there's always the classic 1984.

The Giver series by Lois Lowry was really good. Probably some of the best dystopia I've ever read.

The Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence is absolutely fantastically written and interesting - medieval-dystopia. :)

The Last Book in the Universe is my favorite dystopian. It leans a little more post-apoc, but it's really good, even if it is short.

Dan Well's "Partials" series is pretty dang awesome.

1984 Gorge Orwell, it is the best and in some ways the most likely outcome of a dystopian society.

Check out Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy. Book 1 is Oryx & Crake.

I have found a pretty good YA dystopian that I have recently enjoyed and would recommend.

The Iron Butterfly By chanda Hahn

Maze Runner, Unwind, Uglies, and Matched are all pretty good series.

Red rising is good dystopian. The author Pierce Brown writes books of equal quality as Sanderson!

Wool Omnibus

well wool omnibus is ok if u enjoy reading 50 page novellas.

The Unwind series by Neil Shusterman is brilliant. Also Legend by Marie Lu.

Silo series by Hugh Howey for sure (Wool Omnibus, Shift and Dust) and they are not only 50 pages novellas as they grow bigger, page wise.
Also, Reckoners series by Sanderson (Steelheart and Firefight at the moment, third book coming in 2016).

Red rising is a really good one .

Christopher wrote: "well wool omnibus is ok if u enjoy reading 50 page novellas."

The Omnibus includes all five, so it's one continuous story.

Hunger Games, 1984 is a classic. Divergent is a bust. DO NOT READ IT UNLESS YOU ARE FORCED TO. It will disappoint you greatly!!!! Steelheart could be considered a dystopian novel.

Ahh I forgot, the Prodigy series is also a good dystopian.

Ahh I forgot, the Prodigy series is also a good dystopian.

Fahrenheit 451 is great classic.

Christopher wrote: "Red rising is good dystopian. The author Pierce Brown writes books of equal quality as Sanderson!"

Can't wait for morning star! Have you joined the book talk yet? It's right here, if not

H20 (also called the Rain) classic dystopian. But even better is the darkest minds trilogy by Alexander bracken

Ready player One is An awesome dystopian book. give it a try

Well, if we're talking about dystopians we can't ignore the 3 classics: brave new world (Huxley), 1984 (Orwell) and Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury). Any of these is worth reading and rereading

The BEST dystopian/sci-fi book I've read so far is Red Rising, by Pierce Brown. But I haven't read any classics like Fahrenheit 451, 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale, so, what do I know? xD

I have such a long list for this question 😂
- Skyward
- Steelheart
- Hunger Games
- The Selection
- Divergent
- Uglies
- Nil
- Under the Never Sky
- Matched
And there’s more but I’m having trouble recalling all of them there’s too many 😆

Oh, and how could I forget Fahrenheit 451. There’s also the Legend and Wild Card series by Marie Lu.

Oh and how could I forget the Fifth Wave series.

Red Rising by pierce brown

Ariel wrote: "Red Rising by pierce brown" Yes! So good, and so under-read.

The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey. That is a pen name for Daniel Abraham (Long Price Quartet, a must read though not Utopian) and Ty Franck. So good! Don't judge it by the show.

Ariel wrote: "Red Rising by pierce brown"

Yes, this is the one! A must-read series!

Some great dystopians:

The Alliance by Gerald Lund
The Giver and Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

I love the early cyberpunk stuff.

Snow Crash and Neuromancer are both very good books!

I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary as a standalone and the Scythe series