Books Like 1984

I like dystopian novels like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. I'm not that into YA dystopian novels so much (but not opposed to them). I prefer the ones that feel like social commentary.

What else will I like?

Dystopia, fmc preferred, oppressive regime, please no y/a, explores how it would feel; I wanna feel the powers at be weighing down on me!!!

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin—older than 1984 and one of Orwell’s inspirations

I know that is 1984 is a timeless classic, and I love Orwell's book, but the acceleration in technology that we live today makes 1984 looks like a walk in the park, between what China, Russia, and the USA are doing with mass surveillance, face recognition, death of privacy, cameras inside the house and inside the car, knowing your intimate life, predicting crime, and so much more of these things that exist in our modern, tech heavy world, make our reality much worse than 1984, you only have to read about one nation, like what China is doing in xinjian to know that,

So can anyone suggest me a book that have all this in mind, but predict a future much scarier than the one we live in, focusing on the evolution of these technologies

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is an obvious choice if you haven't read it already.

The Parable of the Sower and its sequel The Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler aren't quite like 1984, but they are absolutely about resisting fascism, building community, and striving for a better future. They're also fucking fantastic books.

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff Vandermeer is a detective thriller about crime syndicates, shady spy operations and the end of the world. It's also not quite like 1984, but it's definitely dystopian and it's pretty good.

Brave new world by Aldous Huxley

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Written in 1921. Directly inspired 1984. Highly recommend

Recently taken up listening to audiobooks at work and found George Orwell's 1984, fell in love with it and have been enjoying the totalitarian/dystopian theme. So far I've also listened to Animal Farm, V for Vendetta, Farenheit 451, Lord of the flies and enjoyed them all very much but am not sure where to go from here? I read The Giver in grade school so that's off the table and I've been told to try A Brave New World but after an hour or so found myself bored

1984 by George Orwell was produced in 1949, and was so ahead of its time (imo). It has become my favourite of all time and I am almost done with it, and I am already desperate after finding another like it. Help?

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

I read this recently and felt it had a 1984 adjacent/vibe to it. Certainly doesn’t explain itself so you have to go with the flow, so to speak but I would recommend checking it out.

I always group 1984, Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale together in my mind as the classic dystopian tales

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

The Handmaid's Tale Series by Margaret Atwood

I've recently got back into reading fiction after a long stint of only enjoying non-fiction books (mainly psychology focused, as that's what my degree is in). I've just finished 1984 and I really enjoyed it. I'd like to read other books with a similar message, or books that just have SOME kind of message whether it be philosophical, political, or anything along similar lines. Any reccs would be wildly appreciated!

Fahrenheit451 was great, Animal Farm is a Short but also recommended read, And maybe, but I havent read it myself, is The wave

helloo i recently got back into reading again with george orwells "1984". it's really captivating and i'm almost done reading, so now i'm looking for other books that are similar like this, so i can further educate myself on that topic.

(if by any chance someone has a german book recommendation for that, please let me know too!! if not - english is fine! i will just try to find a german version of it then because i have read 1984 in english and since it's not my native language i sometimes have a hard time understanding things :D)

thank you very much!!!

h{{Brave New World}} and h{{We}}

I don't usually recommend the "bigger" ones, which BNV definitely is, because they're constantly mentioned but I also think BNV is the lesser talked about but better dystopia compared to 1984.

{{permanent record by Edward Snowden}}

Levin's This Perfect Day comes closest to 1984. He also wrote Rosemary's Baby and Stepford Wives.

The Stranger and The Plague , Camus

The Trial, Kafka

The Double, Dostoevsky

Invitation to a Beheading, Nabokov

Blindness, Saramago
If you are liking dystopian, you'll also like surreal lit.

Try Brave New World again--and I would skip the first chapter. It's weird because in our society now, to most this dystopia is an actual utopia and we are shockingly close to living it out.

There are a couple different logical directions to go from here, all of which I strongly recommend.

This list is going to include a lot of my favorite books. Orwell is one of my literary and intellectual... influencers; for lack of a better term. (The fiction authors I’d classify this way for myself are Orwell, LeGuin, and Steinbeck. I swear Orwell and LeGuin have serious similarities in how they think; for all that their writing and subject interests may diverge).

Speculative Fiction in 3 subgroups:

Full blown classic Dystopia:

• The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood (Frankly, this book is missing from your original list)

• Parable of the Sower, Butler

Partial Dystopia / Exploration of the concept of dystopia and utopia

• The Dispossessed (subtitle: an ambiguous utopia), LeGuin

• Cloud Atlas, Mitchell (multigenre, including full dystopia alongside other things to make a novel out of six novellas)

Speculative Fiction with secondary dystopic themes; still highly likely to appeal to someone with your reading list:

• Lathe of Heaven, LeGuin

• The Telling, LeGuin

Realistic fiction: (this stuff is also dystopian)

• A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn

• Anil’s Ghost, Ondaatje

• Burmese Days, Orwell

• Invisible Man, Ellison

• Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck (this is the only book in this comment that doesn’t explore institutional dystopia)

Narrative Non-Fiction

• Riot Days, Maria Alyokinha

• Homage to Catalonia, Orwell

• Assata, an autobiography

• The Orwell Reader (or another collection of his essays - the guy was a phenomenal essayist)

• Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is the book that inspired Orwell to write 1984. I personally think it’s the superior novel.

There's a book called Julia by Sandra Newman. It's 1984 from the perspective of Julia.