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6 Incredible Dystopian Novels You Should Read

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There is nothing better than escaping to a dystopian story in the pages of a novel. Wether it be androids dominating the world or speculative fiction tales that aren’t so far from real life these stories are the things that grab our attention.

The dystopian novels list is endless and can be tough to navigate, so we made it easier with our best dystopian novels of all time list for you to choose from.

Run

Dystopian Novels RunAuthor: Blake Crouch
Year: 2011

For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Thomas Harris, picture this: a landscape of American genocide…

5 D A Y S A G O
A rash of bizarre murders swept the country…
Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected.
A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike.
A mass of school shootings.
Prison riots of unprecedented brutality.
Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state.

4 D A Y S A G O
The murders increased ten-fold…

3 D A Y S A G O
The President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace…

2 D A Y S A G O
The killers began to mobilize…

Y E S T E R D A Y
All the power went out…

T O N I G H T
They’re reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they’ve just read yours.

Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife, a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don’t know why, but you don’t have time to think about that any more.

You only have time to….

R U N

This 80,000-word novel also contains a bonus interview with Blake Crouch, and excerpts from his other dystopian novels.

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