Bleak Near-Future Books | Summaries & Audio

The Mandibles

by Lionel Shriver • 2016

The Mandibles waited decades for an inheritance that disappears the night America defaults.

3.71

12k+

🏚️ Economic Collapse 💸 Failed Inheritance 👁️ Surveillance State

The Mandibles 90%

The Mandibles waited decades for an inheritance that disappears the night America defaults.

by Lionel Shriver 2016

3.71

12k+ ratings

🏚️ Economic Collapse 💸 Failed Inheritance 👁️ Surveillance State

The Family Experiment

by John Marrs • 2024

Eleven contestants raise AI children on a show where the losers watch their kids erased live.

4.03

63k+

🔮 Near-Future Thriller 📺 Deadly Reality Show 👶 Virtual Parenthood

The Family Experiment 90%

Eleven contestants raise AI children on a show where the losers watch their kids erased live.

by John Marrs 2024

4.03

63k+ ratings

🔮 Near-Future Thriller 📺 Deadly Reality Show 👶 Virtual Parenthood

Sick Bastards

by Matt Shaw • 2014

A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.

3.54

4k+

💀 Extreme Horror 🥩 Cannibalism Horror 🩸 Body Horror

Sick Bastards 90%

A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.

by Matt Shaw 2014

3.54

4k+ ratings

💀 Extreme Horror 🥩 Cannibalism Horror 🩸 Body Horror

Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

by Judd Trichter • 2015

A man scours broken LA for his android lover's scattered parts before her identity vanishes forever.

3.51

562

🏙️ Near Future Dystopia 💔 Human Android Love 🕵️ Noir Detective Story

Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Summary

Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 90%

A man scours broken LA for his android lover's scattered parts before her identity vanishes forever.

by Judd Trichter 2015

3.51

562 ratings

🏙️ Near Future Dystopia 💔 Human Android Love 🕵️ Noir Detective Story

Zed

by Joanna Kavenna • 2019

A murder the system failed to predict becomes a crack that brings the surveillance state down.

3.12

1k+

🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia 👁️ Predictive Surveillance 💾 Hacker Resistance

Zed 90%

A murder the system failed to predict becomes a crack that brings the surveillance state down.

by Joanna Kavenna 2019

3.12

1k+ ratings

🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia 👁️ Predictive Surveillance 💾 Hacker Resistance

Radicalized

by Cory Doctorow • 2019

When her smart toaster bricks itself, a refugee discovers the whole building is a corporate jail.

4.03

8k+

🏙️ Near Future Dystopia 💻 Hacktivism 🧳 Refugee Resilience

Radicalized 90%

When her smart toaster bricks itself, a refugee discovers the whole building is a corporate jail.

by Cory Doctorow 2019

4.03

8k+ ratings

🏙️ Near Future Dystopia 💻 Hacktivism 🧳 Refugee Resilience

Super Sad True Love Story

by Gary Shteyngart • 2010

A neurotic 39-year-old courts a guarded young woman in an America where everyone is rated.

3.45

42k+

🔮 Near-Future Dystopia 🤖 Satirical Sci-Fi 💔 Age Gap Relationship

Super Sad True Love Story 90%

A neurotic 39-year-old courts a guarded young woman in an America where everyone is rated.

by Gary Shteyngart 2010

3.45

42k+ ratings

🔮 Near-Future Dystopia 🤖 Satirical Sci-Fi 💔 Age Gap Relationship

Chien 51

by Laurent Gaudé • 2022

A refugee cop in a corporate megacity hunts a killer through zones of privilege and ruin.

3.64

2k+

🖤 Dystopian Noir 💼 Corporate Dystopia 👥 Reluctant Partners

Chien 51 90%

A refugee cop in a corporate megacity hunts a killer through zones of privilege and ruin.

by Laurent Gaudé 2022

3.64

2k+ ratings

🖤 Dystopian Noir 💼 Corporate Dystopia 👥 Reluctant Partners

BEYOND EXTINCTION

by John Keeble • 2018

A geneticist's refuge becomes a lab; his lover, a numan; his DNA, a museum of extinction.

3.83

138

🧬 Genetic Dystopia 🧬 Species Replacement 🧠 Genetic Memory

BEYOND EXTINCTION 89%

A geneticist's refuge becomes a lab; his lover, a numan; his DNA, a museum of extinction.

by John Keeble 2018

3.83

138 ratings

🧬 Genetic Dystopia 🧬 Species Replacement 🧠 Genetic Memory

Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler • 1998

Crusaders take her community and her child. In a reeducation camp, a mother holds change sacred.

4.32

87k+

🏚️ Religious Dystopia 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ✝️ Religious Extremism

Parable of the Talents 89%

Crusaders take her community and her child. In a reeducation camp, a mother holds change sacred.

by Octavia E. Butler 1998

4.32

87k+ ratings

🏚️ Religious Dystopia 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ✝️ Religious Extremism

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

by Philip K. Dick • 2011

A bounty hunter kills androids who pass as human, until the work starts feeling like murder.

4.04

5k+

🏙️ Android Dystopia 🤖 Artificial Humanity 🌿 Artificial Nature

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 Summary

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 89%

A bounty hunter kills androids who pass as human, until the work starts feeling like murder.

by Philip K. Dick 2011

4.04

5k+ ratings

🏙️ Android Dystopia 🤖 Artificial Humanity 🌿 Artificial Nature

The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner • 2003

America is dying of its own poison, and the people who warned us are being hunted.

3.91

6k+

☣️ Ecological Dystopia 🗣️ Reluctant Prophet 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

The Sheep Look Up 89%

America is dying of its own poison, and the people who warned us are being hunted.

by John Brunner 2003

3.91

6k+ ratings

☣️ Ecological Dystopia 🗣️ Reluctant Prophet 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

The Heart Goes Last

by Margaret Atwood • 2015

Homeless, they joined a town of monthly jail turns. An affair made them each other's inmates.

3.39

75k+

🎭 Dystopian Satire 🏚️ Near-Future Collapse 📹 Surveillance State

The Heart Goes Last 89%

Homeless, they joined a town of monthly jail turns. An affair made them each other's inmates.

by Margaret Atwood 2015

3.39

75k+ ratings

🎭 Dystopian Satire 🏚️ Near-Future Collapse 📹 Surveillance State

Golden State

by Ben H. Winters • 2019

A Speculator's death case unearths a banned book and a conspiracy to dismantle his society.

3.47

8k+

🌆 Dystopian Noir 📚 Forbidden Books 🔮 Psychic Detective

Golden State 89%

A Speculator's death case unearths a banned book and a conspiracy to dismantle his society.

by Ben H. Winters 2019

3.47

8k+ ratings

🌆 Dystopian Noir 📚 Forbidden Books 🔮 Psychic Detective

One Second After

by William R. Forstchen • 2009

An EMP erases civilization. A widowed professor must keep his daughters alive as his town starves.

3.98

77k+

🏕️ Survivalist Fiction ⚡ Grid Collapse 🫡 Reluctant Leader

One Second After 89%

An EMP erases civilization. A widowed professor must keep his daughters alive as his town starves.

by William R. Forstchen 2009

3.98

77k+ ratings

🏕️ Survivalist Fiction ⚡ Grid Collapse 🫡 Reluctant Leader

Written in Fire

by Marcus Sakey • 2016

A federal agent hunts a scientist whose serum gives anyone superhuman gifts, amid civil war.

4.19

15k+

🧬 Enhanced Humans 🔮 Near Future Thriller 🏛️ Government Conspiracy

Written in Fire 89%

A federal agent hunts a scientist whose serum gives anyone superhuman gifts, amid civil war.

by Marcus Sakey 2016

4.19

15k+ ratings

🧬 Enhanced Humans 🔮 Near Future Thriller 🏛️ Government Conspiracy

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

by David Wong • 2015

A barista inherits a crime empire and becomes the star of a live murder show.

3.98

24k+

🤖 Cyberpunk Satire 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 👑 Reluctant Heir

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits Summary

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits 89%

A barista inherits a crime empire and becomes the star of a live murder show.

by David Wong 2015

3.98

24k+ ratings

🤖 Cyberpunk Satire 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 👑 Reluctant Heir

The Warehouse

by Rob Hart • 2019

A failed entrepreneur and a spy enter a company town where wristbands track every heartbeat.

3.84

15k+

🏢 Corporate Dystopia ⏳ Near-Future Thriller 🕵️ Corporate Espionage

The Warehouse 89%

A failed entrepreneur and a spy enter a company town where wristbands track every heartbeat.

by Rob Hart 2019

3.84

15k+ ratings

🏢 Corporate Dystopia ⏳ Near-Future Thriller 🕵️ Corporate Espionage

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

by Harlan Ellison • 1967

A sentient supercomputer torments the last five humans for eternity, refusing to let them die.

3.70

16k+

🤖 Sentient Ai Horror 🧬 Body Horror ☢️ Post-Apocalyptic Torment

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream 89%

A sentient supercomputer torments the last five humans for eternity, refusing to let them die.

by Harlan Ellison 1967

3.70

16k+ ratings

🤖 Sentient Ai Horror 🧬 Body Horror ☢️ Post-Apocalyptic Torment

A Better World

by Marcus Sakey • 2014

When a serum that makes anyone enhanced emerges, a fractured America erupts into shadow war.

4.17

19k+

🏚️ Near-Future Collapse ⚡ Superpowered Divide 🕵️ Government Conspiracy

A Better World 89%

When a serum that makes anyone enhanced emerges, a fractured America erupts into shadow war.

by Marcus Sakey 2014

4.17

19k+ ratings

🏚️ Near-Future Collapse ⚡ Superpowered Divide 🕵️ Government Conspiracy

Feed

by M.T. Anderson • 2002

In a world where ads stream directly into minds, a boy meets a girl who resists.

3.55

68k+

🛒 Consumerist Dystopia 🏢 Corporate Satire 🧠 Brain Implants

Feed 89%

In a world where ads stream directly into minds, a boy meets a girl who resists.

by M.T. Anderson 2002

3.55

68k+ ratings

🛒 Consumerist Dystopia 🏢 Corporate Satire 🧠 Brain Implants

Void Star

by Zachary Mason • 2017

A translator's perfect memory makes her a target in a near-future city of favelas and rogue AI.

3.67

3k+

🌃 Literary Cyberpunk 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 💾 Commodified Memory

Void Star 88%

A translator's perfect memory makes her a target in a near-future city of favelas and rogue AI.

by Zachary Mason 2017

3.67

3k+ ratings

🌃 Literary Cyberpunk 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 💾 Commodified Memory

Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard

by J.G. Ballard • 2000

Above Cannes, a corporate paradise hides its last doctor's killing spree behind a wall of silence.

3.72

5k+

🏢 Corporate Dystopia 🏘️ Gated Community Horror 🔪 Sanctioned Violence

Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard 88%

Above Cannes, a corporate paradise hides its last doctor's killing spree behind a wall of silence.

by J.G. Ballard 2000

3.72

5k+ ratings

🏢 Corporate Dystopia 🏘️ Gated Community Horror 🔪 Sanctioned Violence

Acide sulfurique

by Amélie Nothomb • 2005

A student is dragged into a reality-TV death camp where the audience decides who is killed.

3.57

13k+

📺 Dystopian Reality Tv 🏷️ Power Of Names 🔄 Villain Redemption

Acide sulfurique 88%

A student is dragged into a reality-TV death camp where the audience decides who is killed.

by Amélie Nothomb 2005

3.57

13k+ ratings

📺 Dystopian Reality Tv 🏷️ Power Of Names 🔄 Villain Redemption

Vanishing World

by Sayaka Murata • 2015

In a world without sex or family, one woman raised on romance watches her own desires vanish.

3.20

15k+

🏙️ Speculative Dystopia 🇯🇵 Japanese Speculative Fiction 🫀 Quiet Body Horror

Vanishing World 88%

In a world without sex or family, one woman raised on romance watches her own desires vanish.

by Sayaka Murata 2015

3.20

15k+ ratings

🏙️ Speculative Dystopia 🇯🇵 Japanese Speculative Fiction 🫀 Quiet Body Horror

The Tower

by Colin Wilson • 1987

Giant telepathic spiders rule the earth, and one boy's mind holds the power they cannot break.

4.02

509

🧠 Psychic Dystopia 🕷️ Giant Spiders 🏭 Engineered Society

The Tower 88%

Giant telepathic spiders rule the earth, and one boy's mind holds the power they cannot break.

by Colin Wilson 1987

4.02

509 ratings

🧠 Psychic Dystopia 🕷️ Giant Spiders 🏭 Engineered Society

The Slynx

by Tatyana Tolstaya • 2007

In frozen, mutated Russia, a scribe copies a tyrant's decrees as a forest beast steals minds.

3.81

6k+

📚 Forbidden Books 🧠 Cultural Amnesia 😈 Dark Absurdist Humor

The Slynx 88%

In frozen, mutated Russia, a scribe copies a tyrant's decrees as a forest beast steals minds.

by Tatyana Tolstaya 2007

3.81

6k+ ratings

📚 Forbidden Books 🧠 Cultural Amnesia 😈 Dark Absurdist Humor

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

by Harlan Ellison • 1967

An all-powerful AI has wiped out humanity, sparing five survivors only to torment them forever.

3.89

57k+

🤖 Sentient Ai Nightmare 👾 Classic Scifi Horror 🧠 Psychological Torture

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream 88%

An all-powerful AI has wiped out humanity, sparing five survivors only to torment them forever.

by Harlan Ellison 1967

3.89

57k+ ratings

🤖 Sentient Ai Nightmare 👾 Classic Scifi Horror 🧠 Psychological Torture

Company Town

by Madeline Ashby • 2016

An unaugmented bodyguard on an oil rig protects a teenage heir from a body-snatching killer.

3.50

5k+

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt

Company Town 88%

An unaugmented bodyguard on an oil rig protects a teenage heir from a body-snatching killer.

by Madeline Ashby 2016

3.50

5k+ ratings

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt

Neuromancer

by William Gibson • 1984

A broken hacker is hired to crack an AI, only to learn the AI hired him.

3.89

369k+

💻 Cyberpunk 🦾 Cybernetic Enhancements 🤖 Ai Manipulation

Neuromancer 88%

A broken hacker is hired to crack an AI, only to learn the AI hired him.

by William Gibson 1984

3.89

369k+ ratings

💻 Cyberpunk 🦾 Cybernetic Enhancements 🤖 Ai Manipulation

Atomised by Houellebecq, Michel, Wynne, Frank New Edition

by Michel Houellebecq • 1998

Two estranged half-brothers search for connection in a Europe engineering its own replacement.

3.80

52k+

👬 Estranged Brothers 🖤 Transgressive Fiction 💔 Sexual Despair

Atomised by Houellebecq, Michel, Wynne, Frank New Edition Summary

Atomised by Houellebecq, Michel, Wynne, Frank New Edition 88%

Two estranged half-brothers search for connection in a Europe engineering its own replacement.

by Michel Houellebecq 1998

3.80

52k+ ratings

👬 Estranged Brothers 🖤 Transgressive Fiction 💔 Sexual Despair

Forward

by Blake Crouch • 2019

Six celebrated authors, one question: when technology overtakes us, what remains worth saving?

3.74

2k+

📚 Speculative Anthology 🤖 Ai Consciousness ⚡ Creator Versus Creation

Forward 88%

Six celebrated authors, one question: when technology overtakes us, what remains worth saving?

by Blake Crouch 2019

3.74

2k+ ratings

📚 Speculative Anthology 🤖 Ai Consciousness ⚡ Creator Versus Creation

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick • 1968

A bounty hunter chasing six androids discovers his empathy test is failing him.

4.09

519k+

🤖 Android Dystopia 💔 Empathy As Test 🕵️‍♂️ Bounty Hunter Noir

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Summary

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 88%

A bounty hunter chasing six androids discovers his empathy test is failing him.

by Philip K. Dick 1968

4.09

519k+ ratings

🤖 Android Dystopia 💔 Empathy As Test 🕵️‍♂️ Bounty Hunter Noir

Hum

by Helen Phillips • 2024

A mother sells her face to AI for cash. Her children vanish into a watching city.

3.50

13k+

🤖 Near-Future Dystopia 👁️ Surveillance Society 🤱 Maternal Anxiety

Hum 88%

A mother sells her face to AI for cash. Her children vanish into a watching city.

by Helen Phillips 2024

3.50

13k+ ratings

🤖 Near-Future Dystopia 👁️ Surveillance Society 🤱 Maternal Anxiety

UnWholly

by Neal Shusterman • 2012

Connor's sanctuary splinters when a vengeful rebel demands war and the state prepares to strike.

4.24

68k+

🩸 Dystopian Body Horror 🧬 Artificial Personhood 🏥 Medical Dystopia

UnWholly 88%

Connor's sanctuary splinters when a vengeful rebel demands war and the state prepares to strike.

by Neal Shusterman 2012

4.24

68k+ ratings

🩸 Dystopian Body Horror 🧬 Artificial Personhood 🏥 Medical Dystopia

Artificial Wisdom

by Thomas R. Weaver • 2023

His wife was murdered and the AI running for world dictator knows who did it.

3.91

8k+

🌪️ Climate Thriller 🔮 Near-Future Dystopia 📰 Investigative Journalist

Artificial Wisdom 88%

His wife was murdered and the AI running for world dictator knows who did it.

by Thomas R. Weaver 2023

3.91

8k+ ratings

🌪️ Climate Thriller 🔮 Near-Future Dystopia 📰 Investigative Journalist

Ripe

by Sarah Rose Etter • 2023

Her only constant is a black hole. At a Silicon Valley startup, it begins to feed.

3.58

34k+

🖥️ Tech Dystopia 🏢 Corporate Alienation 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Trauma

Ripe 88%

Her only constant is a black hole. At a Silicon Valley startup, it begins to feed.

by Sarah Rose Etter 2023

3.58

34k+ ratings

🖥️ Tech Dystopia 🏢 Corporate Alienation 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Trauma

2054

by Elliot Ackerman • 2024

An impossible wound in a dead president's heart pushes a fractured America toward civil war.

3.43

3k+

⏳ Near-Future Thriller 🧠 Uploaded Consciousness 🏛️ Political Intrigue

2054 88%

An impossible wound in a dead president's heart pushes a fractured America toward civil war.

by Elliot Ackerman 2024

3.43

3k+ ratings

⏳ Near-Future Thriller 🧠 Uploaded Consciousness 🏛️ Political Intrigue

The Children of Men

by P.D. James • 1992

A generation without children. Then one pregnancy forces a grieving scholar to defy a tyrant cousin.

3.67

53k+

📚 Literary Dystopia 🏚️ Crumbling Civilization 🛡️ Reluctant Protector

The Children of Men 88%

A generation without children. Then one pregnancy forces a grieving scholar to defy a tyrant cousin.

by P.D. James 1992

3.67

53k+ ratings

📚 Literary Dystopia 🏚️ Crumbling Civilization 🛡️ Reluctant Protector

The School for Good Mothers

by Jessamine Chan • 2022

Frida Liu's custody depends on convincing a doll and the cameras that she's a fit mother.

3.53

128k+

🤖 Dystopian Motherhood 📹 Surveillance State 🏫 Institutional Setting

The School for Good Mothers 88%

Frida Liu's custody depends on convincing a doll and the cameras that she's a fit mother.

by Jessamine Chan 2022

3.53

128k+ ratings

🤖 Dystopian Motherhood 📹 Surveillance State 🏫 Institutional Setting

Little Eyes

by Samanta Schweblin • 2020

A plush robot pet moves in, and a stranger somewhere is watching through its eyes.

3.58

26k+

🖥️ Near-Future Tech 🧩 Mosaic Narrative 👁️ Surveillance Society

Little Eyes 88%

A plush robot pet moves in, and a stranger somewhere is watching through its eyes.

by Samanta Schweblin 2020

3.58

26k+ ratings

🖥️ Near-Future Tech 🧩 Mosaic Narrative 👁️ Surveillance Society

Waste Tide

by Chen Qiufan • 2013

On an island of Chinese e-waste, a virus turns a migrant worker into a living network.

3.32

3k+

♻️ Eco-Cyberpunk 🧠 Networked Consciousness ✊ Class Uprising

Waste Tide 88%

On an island of Chinese e-waste, a virus turns a migrant worker into a living network.

by Chen Qiufan 2013

3.32

3k+ ratings

♻️ Eco-Cyberpunk 🧠 Networked Consciousness ✊ Class Uprising

Brilliance

by Marcus Sakey • 2013

An agent who reads patterns to hunt gifted terrorists learns his own agency faked the attacks.

3.98

33k+

🔮 Near-Future Thriller 🏛️ Government Conspiracy 🔍 Hunting His Own Kind

Brilliance 88%

An agent who reads patterns to hunt gifted terrorists learns his own agency faked the attacks.

by Marcus Sakey 2013

3.98

33k+ ratings

🔮 Near-Future Thriller 🏛️ Government Conspiracy 🔍 Hunting His Own Kind

The Peripheral

by William Gibson • 2014

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

3.89

34k+

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder

The Peripheral 88%

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

by William Gibson 2014

3.89

34k+ ratings

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder

Freedom™

by Daniel Suarez • 2010

A rogue AI is dismantling global finance. One detective must prove humanity deserves to survive.

4.26

31k+

💻 Techno-Thriller 🤖 Rogue AI 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy

Freedom™ 88%

A rogue AI is dismantling global finance. One detective must prove humanity deserves to survive.

by Daniel Suarez 2010

4.26

31k+ ratings

💻 Techno-Thriller 🤖 Rogue AI 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy

The Escher Man

by T.R. Napper • 2024

A Macau hitman's syndicate is erasing his memory. The family he lost may be a lie.

3.83

434

🖤 Near-Future Noir 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔫 Hitman Protagonist

The Escher Man 88%

A Macau hitman's syndicate is erasing his memory. The family he lost may be a lie.

by T.R. Napper 2024

3.83

434 ratings

🖤 Near-Future Noir 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔫 Hitman Protagonist

The Gone World

by Tom Sweterlitsch • 2018

A murdered family. A missing child. An agent who visits futures where humanity is always dead.

3.91

30k+

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🕵️‍♀️ Sci-Fi Noir 🔁 Time Loop

The Gone World 88%

A murdered family. A missing child. An agent who visits futures where humanity is always dead.

by Tom Sweterlitsch 2018

3.91

30k+ ratings

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🕵️‍♀️ Sci-Fi Noir 🔁 Time Loop

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

by Clay McLeod Chapman • 2025

A liberal New Yorker races south as a viral possession consumes his parents through their screens.

3.27

15k+

🎭 Social Horror 📺 Media Possession 🦠 Memetic Virus

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes 88%

A liberal New Yorker races south as a viral possession consumes his parents through their screens.

by Clay McLeod Chapman 2025

3.27

15k+ ratings

🎭 Social Horror 📺 Media Possession 🦠 Memetic Virus

Day of the Oprichnik

by Vladimir Sorokin • 2006

A Tsar's enforcer in a walled Russia: one day of fire, prayer, and sanctioned killing.

3.74

10k+

🏛️ Theocratic Dystopia 🎭 Satirical Dystopia 🤢 Grotesque Satire

Day of the Oprichnik 88%

A Tsar's enforcer in a walled Russia: one day of fire, prayer, and sanctioned killing.

by Vladimir Sorokin 2006

3.74

10k+ ratings

🏛️ Theocratic Dystopia 🎭 Satirical Dystopia 🤢 Grotesque Satire

Gliff

by Ali Smith • 2024

Branded disposable, two siblings hide in an abandoned school where a horse becomes their rebellion.

3.89

10k+

🏚️ Literary Dystopia 👫 Sibling Bond 🫂 Found Family

Gliff 88%

Branded disposable, two siblings hide in an abandoned school where a horse becomes their rebellion.

by Ali Smith 2024

3.89

10k+ ratings

🏚️ Literary Dystopia 👫 Sibling Bond 🫂 Found Family

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