Looking for books about post-apocalyptic worlds or something dystopic ;

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller

Wool by Hugh Howey

Fugue for a Darkening Island by Christopher Priest

Parable of the Sower. Octavia E Butler

See the threads:

• "Post-Apocalyptic Recovery Fiction" (r/printSF; August 2015)
• "Books like Mad Max" (r/booksuggestions; November 2021)
• "Post apocalyptic books are my favorite!" (r/booksuggestions; 14 April 2022)
• "Apocalyptic/post apocalyptic books that don’t involve mutations (no zombies, super strong/fast humans etc.)" (r/booksuggestions; 19 April 2022)
• "'Unique' Post-apocalyptic Stories?" (r/printSF; 24 April 2022)
• "Creature invasion/apocalypse books" (r/booksuggestions; 27 April 2022)
• "Fantasy Settings which are actually a Post-Apocalypse Future Earth?" (r/Fantasy; 2 May 2022)
• "any good post-apocalyptic military stories?" (r/printSF; 16 May 2022)
• "Good apocalypse novels?" (r/Fantasy; 20 May 2022)
• "Good Post apocalypse/zombie apocalypse book?" (r/booksuggestions; 15 June 2022)
• "Books that are technically post apocalyptic, but don’t seem like it on the surface." (r/booksuggestions; 22 June 2022)
• "Tender is the Flesh" (r/booksuggestions; 29 June 2022)
• "Post apocalyptic book recommendations" (r/Fantasy; 1 July 2022)
• "Books about scavenging in a post apocalyptic setting" (r/booksuggestions; 4 July 2022)
• "Are there any books or series that take place in a 'dead' world?" (r/printSF; 6 July 2022)
• "Looking for strange, weird books about a wildly different life in a world post something extreme like global nuclear war/bioterrorism/etc, or something with similar ~vibes~" (r/printSF; 9 July 2022)
• "Looking for a post apocalyptic or dystopian type of book to read on vacation" (r/booksuggestions; 11 July 2022)
• "Heat death of the universe" (r/printSF; 17 July 2022)
• "Is there a novel about ghosts at the end of the world?" (r/scifi; 19:02 ET, 19 July 2022)
• "Recommend me: Fantasy stories that end with the destruction of the world or other large-scale tragedy? (spoilers inherent in the topic)" (r/scifi; 4:07 ET, 19 July 2022)
• "post apocalyptic" (r/scifi; 19:06 ET, 19 July 2022)
• "Suggestions for 'in-process' apocalypse stories?" (r/printSF; 00:00, 22 July 2022)

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Edit:

Dystopias

See the threads:

• "Books similar to the handmaids tale?" (r/booksuggestions; 5 July 2022)
• "Disturbing dystopic fiction" (r/booksuggestions; 16 July 2022)
• "Please suggest me a book" (r/suggestmeabook; 22:22 ET, 19 July 2022)
• "Looking for theme or genre name" (r/suggestmeabook; 22:24 ET, 19 July 2022)

A series (young adult):

• Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix

A big list from an old blog about only reading dystopian fiction for a few years. Lots of reviews. http://epicdystopia.blogspot.com/2007/11/big-list.html

Windup Girl by Bacigalupi

If you're ok with a collection of stories there is:

The Apocalypse Triptych (3 book series)

The Dystopia Triptych

I suggest checking out Slan or The Stars My Destination, also there's Brave New World or Fahrenheit 451 that comes to mind too.