Talking Books wtih Susan Brown: Dystopia!Like this list

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• Life After Beth

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  High school romance with a zombie. Fun!

• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  New adaptation coming to Hulu soon; SB also likes the 90s TV movie.

• We Live in Water

  Stories

  Walter, Jess, 1965-

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  Zombies in Starbucks! It's all OK!

• When She Woke

  Jordan, Hillary, 1963-

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  Good choice for book clubs that like literary fic. Dystopian retelling of The Scarlet Letter with genetic punishments.

• Darkness at Noon

  Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983

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  In the same vein as (and a contemporary of) the great dystopian classics like 1984 and Brave New World, by a guy who lived in the Soviet Union.

• The Iron Heel

  London, Jack, 1876-1916

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  Perhaps the first dystopian novel.

• It Can't Happen Here

  Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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  It's a satire!

• We

  Zami︠a︡tin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich, 1884-1937

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  A Russian classic, but don't ask SB to pronounce the author's name.

• Blindness

  Saramago, José

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• The Unit

  Holmqvist, Ninni, 1958-

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  A peaceful government-run sanctuary for seniors...OR IS IT.

• Batoru Rowaiaru

  Tokubetsu-hen

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  "Makes the Hunger Games look like a utopia."

• The Wind's Twelve Quarters

  Short Stories

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

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  AK recommends the story "The ones who walk away from omelas," in which you either accept the rules of Omelas or you don't. SB has committed to reading it.

• The Lottery

  and Other Stories

  Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965

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  SB and AK's fave!