13 underrated dystopian novels to read (Beyond 1984)

1. Lord of the World: "Centres upon the reign of the Antichrist and the end of the world."

2. Marooned in Realtime: "Follows a small, time-displaced group of people who may be the only survivors of a technological singularity..."

3. Fitzpatrick's War: A tale about the problems of technology, the Rural v/s Urban divide, and why civilizations based on reality beat those based on abstractions.

4. A Canticle for Leibowitz: "In a nightmarish ruined world, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks."

5. We: "A world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state."

6. Mockingbird by Tevis: "Humanity's salvation rests with an android who has no desire to live."

7. The Childermass: "The adventures of two dead men as they posthumously navigate a bizarre purgatorial afterlife while awaiting admission to something called The Magnetic City."

8. The Island of Dr Moreau: "Dr. Moreau uses the key of science to turn animal life forms into human-like beasts which threaten not only the island laboratory, but ultimately all mankind."

9. The Man Who Wanted To Be Guilty: "In a future where the government denies human emotion, Torben murders his wife, but is unable to get the state to admit his guilt."

10. The Wall by Marlen Haushofer: "A woman finds herself unexpectedly isolated from the rest of the world by an invisible, impenetrable, literal wall, beyond which all other life appears to be dead."

11. The Possibility of an Island: "A thought provoking, sometimes shocking, and ultimately moving examination of the modern world, the trials of old age and the death of love."

12. The Mandibles: The dollar finally collapses. The American regime falls. A family tries to survive as an unlikely hero emerges: a 13 year old who understands Austrian Economics. (Highly recommended.)

13. That Hideous Strength: "A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups...involves an ostensibly scientific institute, the N.I.C.E., which is a front for sinister supernatural forces."