Genre: D - Dystopian A - Apocalyptic PA - Post-Apocalyptic Authors: ♀ - Feminist POC - Person of Colour I - Indigenous LGBTQ+ - gender/sexual identity
(D)The Hill by Ali Bryan (♀)
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (♀ , POC)
The City We Became by N.J. Nemisin (♀ , POC)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (POC)
(A) Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Power by Naomi Alderman (♀)
(A) Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (♀)
The Silence and The Roar by Nihad Sirees
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Feed by M.T. Anderson
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Children of Men by P.D. James (♀)
(A) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (♀)
The year of the Flood by Atwood, Margaret
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (♀)
(PA) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (♀)
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (♀)
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
(A) On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz (LGBTQ+)
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin (♀)
Wool by Hugh Howey
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (♀)
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist (♀)
When She Woke by Hilary Jordan (♀)
The Windup Girl by Bacigalupi, Paolo
Ship Breaker by Bacigalupi, Paolo
Jennifer Government by Barry, Max
Ender’s Game by Card, Orson Scott
Matched by Condie, Allie (♀)
The Maze Runner by Dashner, James
Big Big Sky by Dunnion, Kristyn (♀)
Truancy by Fukui, Isamu
Neuromancer by Gibson, William
Gone by Grant, Michael
The Running Man by King, Stephen/Richard Bachman)
(A) The Stand by King, Stephen
(A) I Am Legend by Matheson, Richard
(A) Cloud Atlas by Mitchell, David
How I Live Now by Rosoff, Meg (♀)
Snow Crash by Stephenson, Neal
Battle Royale by Takami, Koushun
Uglies by Westerfeld, Scott
(PA) Zone One by Colson Whitehead (POC)
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (♀)
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
(A) Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (♀, POC)
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Vox by Christina Dalcher (♀)
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman (♀, POC)
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Rice, Waubgeshig (Indigenous)
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Demaline (Indigenous)
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (♀)
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee (POC)
California by Edan Lepucki (♀)
(PA) The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, tr. Jamey Gabrell
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Last Man by Mary Shelley (♀)
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (♀ , POC)
Brave New World and Island by Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Atlas Shrugged and Anthem by Ayn Rand (♀)
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Giver by Lois Lowry (♀)
(PA) The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard (1962)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
(PA) A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Watership Down by Adams, Richard
The Chrysalids by Wyndham, John
Foundation by Asimov, Isaac
Looking Backward by Bellamy, Edward
Lord of the Flies by Golding, William
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
The War of the Worlds & The Time Machine (short story) by Wells, H.G.
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut, Kurt
Iron Heel by London, Jack
Dune by Herbert, Frank
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
(A) The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Caesar's Column by Ignatius Donnelly
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan
The Walking Dead by Kirkman, Robert
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, et.al.
Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire