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1

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

55,113 members

780 reviews

3.9

Member: permanentorbit
Explanations: permanentorbit: dystopian

2

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

45,065 members

712 reviews

4.1

Member: permanentorbit
Explanations: permanentorbit: anti-war, post modern, dark comedy

3

by William Gibson

23,552 members

377 reviews

3.9

Member: permanentorbit
Explanations: permanentorbit: & cyberpunk

4

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,821 members

477 reviews

4

Member: permanentorbit
Explanations: permanentorbit: dystopian, noir

5

The War of the Worlds

18,989 members

315 reviews

3.8

Member: permanentorbit

6

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

16,318 members

387 reviews

4.1

Member: permanentorbit

7

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

11,178 members

158 reviews

3.9

Member: permanentorbit

8

The Illustrated Man

by Ray Bradbury

9,154 members

148 reviews

4

Member: permanentorbit

9

Roadside Picnic

by Arkady Strugatsky

3,816 members

137 reviews

4

Member: permanentorbit
Explanations: permanentorbit: post-apocalyptic

10

by Mikhail Bulgakov

3,264 members

64 reviews

3.9

Member: permanentorbit
Explanations: permanentorbit: dystopian

11

by Dmitry Glukhovsky

2,186 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: permanentorbit
Explanations: permanentorbit: post-apocalyptic

12

The Man Who Fell to Earth

by Walter Tevis

1,655 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: permanentorbit

13

The Soft Machine

by William S. Burroughs

1,552 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: permanentorbit

14

Snowpiercer, Volume 1: The Escape

344 members

20 reviews

3.2

Member: permanentorbit
Explanations: permanentorbit: dystopian

15

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

by Peter George

304 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: permanentorbit
Explanations: permanentorbit: cold war

16

Japan Sinks: A Novel

by Sakyo Komatsu

128 members

7 reviews

3.2

Member: permanentorbit
Explanations: permanentorbit: disaster novel, post-apocalyptic

17

by Arthur Herzog

77 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: permanentorbit

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June 17
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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