Dystopian Lit!

Inter Ice Age 4 by Kobo Abe
The Island of Crimea by Vassily Aksyonov
War With the Newts by Karel Capek
Moscow 2042 by Vladimir Voinovich
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

also try:
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Republic, by Plato
Anthem, by Ayn Rand
obviously Utopia, by sir thomas moore and
The Prince, by Machiaveli

but more recently would be:
Walden Two by BF Skinner
The CottonPatch Gospels by Clarence Jordan
and others

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Select astronauts are sent to another planet and only one returns to tell the frightening tale. I class this novel as ‘dystopian’ in that while the humans were on the other planet, they were treated rather poorly by some of the natives.

The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar. This is a great satire on the future of advertising. A company hires “trend spotters” to go out and find what the next big ad campaign is going to look like (for a new diet water they’re going to market). After reading this, I watched television commercials differently and couldn’t walk down an isle in the grocery store without thinking about the different ways each product was being advertised to be.

Philip K. Dick seems to be pretty good at dystopia: A Scanner Darkly, Man in the High Castle, etc.

But any way, here are a couple of additional dystopian titles: H. G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine. And here's a link: Exploring Dystopia.

Have fun.

To add to the question, what about Cyberpunk and Post-apoc titles? Any suggestions? Again, I've read a smattering, but there are probably greater holes in my experience here than in dystopian lit.

"the golden space" by pamela sargent is excellent, but obscure.

if you don't mind reading children's lit (i don't) i'd recommend "the giver" by lois lowry. it won the newberry medal.

also eleni's suggestion is great. i hadn't thought of "the dwarf" as dystopian but i guess it is! it's also funny because it's like reading a novel by nietzsche - if you get a kick out of his polemical style you'll enjoy "the dwarf".

Anyone read Swedish novelist Karen Boye's 1940 book Kallocain? New translation coming on Penguin late this year.

Keen to check out Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police & Yoko Tawada's The Last Children of Tokyo/The Emissary.

Just finished Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, which could have also gone in the horror thread but is very much dystopian lit. Anyone else read it? It’s horrifying and revolting but exceptionally well written. As one review I read put it, it’s partly or maybe primarily a horror story about words and how they can hide meaning.