I used to not like books but fell in love with them recently after reading the 5th wave seried then the scythe series and now I just finished the entire darkest minds series and side books.

I absouletely loved the darkest minds series and are looking for recommendations like it or a really good dystopian book.

The main things I am looking for is firstly the book must be in a series and that it is a young adult fiction. And of couse is in the dystopian genre.

Also I have looked around for books allot of people say shatter me but I dont like it because romance drives the story to much so could the book preferably not be romance driven but can have romance as part of it like the darkest minds. And also not hunger games or divergent since i have already watched the movies.

Edit : Thanks for all the recommendations!

My first dystopian transcentric 🏳️‍⚧️novel.
Every secret leaves a trail. Every desperate path leads straight to Hunter.
In a chillingly plausible near-future where a sweeping political noose targets the trans community, the rules of survival have changed overnight. Across the state, an older couple, Siobhan and her wife Claire, make the agonizing choice to abandon everything and run, embarking on a harrowing, high-stakes flight to outrun a government-backed manhunt.
Yet their moves in the shadows—unwittingly yet crucially—provide the exact lifeline and tactical advantage needed by Hunter’s key ally. Separate lives, hidden motives, and distant dangers are quietly hurtling toward a single, explosive convergence.
Tasked with anchoring the chaos, Hunter finds himself at the dead-center of a labyrinth where every coincidence is a trap and every second counts. His pulse-pounding, twenty-four-hour escape across two continents—and the staggering truths he reveals to the world—sets Washington, D.C. completely on edge. As the subplots snap together into a devastating final picture, the lines between victim and survivor completely vanish.
The threads are winding tighter. When they finally tangle, will they form a noose to catch them all... or a lifeline to free them all?

This being a fine Wednesday I'd like to introduce myself and my craft.

Girl in the Womb - In a future where food is scarce, children have to pay off their birth debt before being officially born at ten-years-old. Until then, Madison has to stay tethered to her mother.

Thin Is In - in a dystopian future where anorexia is considered the new beauty standard, Jack must save his 6-year-old sister before she is transformed into a hollow shell of brittle bones.

If you like character-driven horror in your dystopian novels, these may be for you.

Burger Wars: Fast Food. Fast Wars. Genre: Dystopian Satire / Dark Comedy

"Black Mirror meets the drive-thru lane." (Dorset Echo)

FLAME-GRILLED JUSTICE. DEEP-FRIED DEATH.

Twenty years ago, fast-food behemoths Ron’s Burgers and General’s Chicken decided that assassinating health-conscious TV chefs was just good business strategy. Fast forward through two decades of corporate escalation, and the high street has turned into an open war zone. Recruits don tactical body armour, trade mortar fire for menu supremacy, and proudly lay down their lives for free extra-value meals for life.

Enter Marcus.

He isn't a hero. He isn't a veteran strategist. He’s just a four-star shift worker who went into the walk-in freezer during a shift in the early 2000s and got accidentally preserved at minus eighteen degrees.

Thawed out into a smog-choked wasteland where drones scan retinas for unlogged assets, the grease is pressurized, and the propaganda is turned up to eleven, Marcus just wants to find out what happened to the girl he loved. Instead, he’s slapped with a spatulated rifle, diagnosed with "Fryer Fog" and drafted straight to the frontlines of Camp Burger.

In a world where the choice is simple, grill or be grilled, Marcus is about to learn that the menu isn't the only thing getting cooked.

(I've had trouble posting the book link before, so I'll post the link as a comment- I really hope you like the premise, even if you don't buy the book!)

Hi everyone, I am the author of The Horseman’s Dream. The audiobook is now live on Audible, Amazon and Apple Books. In a near-future Britain reduced to a flooded archipelago, a grieving scientist who invented dream-sharing technology lives in exile on a remote Scottish island. When a media empire announces it will broadcast the dreams of a catatonic sixteen-year-old known as The Horseman, he realises the boy’s mind carries the same frequency that has haunted him since his own son’s death. What follows is a desperate rescue across submerged England, a confrontation at Sheffield Cathedral and a final revelation on a beach that should not exist — under twin dying suns.

US: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0HMCZKVLP
UK: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0HMCXDVWR

I’m giving away free Audible promo codes to anyone who would like to listen and leave an honest review. Just comment below (US or UK) or message me and I’ll send you one. 

Thank you.

No Wednesday promo post? Maybe I’m just a little early, but I always forget 😅

Tomorrow Book 2 of my Human Husbandry series gets released, and to celebrate Book 1 is $0.99 in the US until the 19th.

A world where humans can legally be turned into livestock. Book 1 was about human cattle and milking stock. In Book 2 we follow ovipositors, sheep and adipose stock.

If you’re ready for more crazy dystopian body horror, check out HumanHusbandry.com.

But be warned... don’t sign any contracts 😈

It's finally here!! 🥳📚

Book 2 of the Apricity Series is officially available on Amazon!

If you read and enjoyed Destiny, the first book in the series, it's time to dive back into the world of Apricity with the next installment! If you loved the first book, I hope you'll love what comes next just as much.

And if you're a fan of classic dystopian fiction, love a good series, or are just looking for a reason to fall back in love with the genre, I'd love for you to give Apricity a chance!

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported my books so far. It genuinely means the world to me as an indie author. ❤️

Book 2 is available now on Amazon! If you haven't started the series yet, Destiny is the place to begin!

Happy reading!

"Genetic engineering tinkers with the wrong soul."

There are many versions of ourselves. Barb Smith is about to discover the one she never imagined. One in a world almost familiar – but now not so much, with the continued roll-out of the android-administered National Gated Suburbia (NGS) transit stations that separate wealthy gated communities from the rest.

One where the humble clothesline is an ancient underground symbol of defiance, a brilliant Data moko–wearing leader watches from the shadows of an underground collective known as Obscurus, and Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game has been brought to life as Brutal Ludi—a high-intellect coding sport played with the violence of pro-wrestling. It's also a world that sees Barb's beloved hometown, Currander River, chillingly renamed as Willington Downs Canal - CBS24008, her family dramatically split, her life threatened, and her only escape made possible by the family's devoted domestic android robot named Neville.

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Barb Smith v1.2.6 is meditative, imaginative, and gentle, but at the same time, with the issues it explores in regard to how we may live centuries from now, also a funny, dynamic,
page-turning novel.

Triggers: Profanities, sexual identity, internalised identity crisis, combat violence (terrorism), displacement.

Exact date of publication: 14 December 2026

The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team:

• Early-November: Your secure digital copy (EPUB or PDF) will be distributed straight to your email inbox. 
• 21-Day Reading Window: You will have a full three weeks to read and enjoy the book. 

The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by:

1 December

View Barb Smith v1.2.6 on Goodreads >

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260412131-barb-smith-v-2-6

Please sign sign up for your ARC at the link below:

https://trentkirchner.studio/barb-smith-v1-2-6-application-form/

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

About the author:

I hail from a mainstream creative copywriter and graphic design background. However, in more recent years I've worked (almost simultaneously) as a freelance creative and gardener (need to be flexible in this day and age!). In 2019 I self-published How to Borrow a Dog, and Barb Smith v1.2.6 is my second novel. Enjoy!

That’s the story I tell in my novel Scob Nation.

Set in 2045, Scob Nation tells the story of a world drunk on untethered climate morality.

Roads have been replaced with electric Jim Crow-i-dors, whose access is controlled by Big Tech algorithms.

Temple-implanted communication discs change colors based on climate virtue: green for virtuous, black for those marked for reprogramming.

Above it all stands Blonden Viate, the Climate Overlord, who runs the Scob Nation reprogramming camps and Probitas correction centers. He and his organization are committed to “fixing” climate denial.

And when we visit Stoink Farm, the world’s first CO2 and methane-free bio-meat farm, things get really weird.

Scob Nation, available on Amazon.

What are you reading this week? It doesn't have to be a traditional book! Audiobooks, graphic novels, and comic books all count!! Let's see if we can increase everyone's TBR!

Does anyone know of a series or book like {The 100 by Kas Morgan}. I like the aspect of the last humanity trying to survive in a primal/ post apocalypse environment. Any recs are appreciated :)

I'm looking for recent dystopian books that emphasize hope, they can still be dark but I'd like an ultimately uplifting message. Queer and/or disabled characters a plus. Thanks!

There are many versions of ourselves.

Barb Smith is about to discover the one she never imagined. One in a world almost familiar – but now not so much, with the continued roll-out of the android-administered National Gated Suburbia (NGS) transit stations that separate wealthy gated communities from the rest.

Here, the humble clothesline is an ancient underground symbol of defiance, a brilliant Data moko–wearing leader watches from the shadows of an underground collective known as Obscurus, and Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game has been brought to life as Brutal Ludi—a high-intellect coding sport played with the violence of pro-wrestling. It's also a world that sees Barb's beloved hometown, Currander River, chillingly renamed as Willington Downs Canal - CBS24008, her family dramatically split, her life threatened, and her only escape made possible by the family's devoted domestic android robot named Neville.

___________________________________________________________________________________

Barb Smith v1.2.6 is meditative, imaginative, and gentle, but at the same time, with the issues it explores in regard to how we may live centuries from now, also a funny, dynamic,
page-turning novel.

Triggers: Profanities, sexual identity, internalised identity crisis, combat violence (terrorism), displacement.

Exact date of publication: 14 December 2026

The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team:

• Early-November: Your secure digital copy (EPUB or PDF) will be distributed straight to your email inbox.
• 21-Day Reading Window: You will have a full three weeks to read and enjoy the book.

The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by:

1 December

View Barb Smith v1.2.6 on Goodreads >

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260412131-barb-smith-v-2-6

Please sign sign up for your ARC at the link below:

https://trentkirchner.studio/barb-smith-v1-2-6-application-form/

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

About the author:

I hail from a mainstream creative copywriter and graphic design background. However, in more recent years I've worked (almost simultaneously) as a freelance creative and gardener (need to be flexible in this day and age!). In 2019 I self-published How to Borrow a Dog, and Barb Smith v1.2.6 is my second novel.

Complete at 175K

GOSPELS OF THE USURPER

Ruined 37th-century Paris. Swordplay and nanotech. Abattoirs and holograms. Devil-masked torturers working under LED lights installed millennia ago.

Elodie Moreau is a proud blood vintner in the fifteen-hundred-year-old regime’s blood-science clergy. Every man, woman, and child pays tribute from their veins. The blood of the masses sustains the nanotech that powers the ruling elite and keeps the cities safe from the beasts beyond their walls.

Elodie makes sure it tastes good.

She walks this hellscape with a clipboard. She is not appalled. She is complicit.

Then an invitation to Paris puts her under the thumb of the most powerful man alive—and exposes the machinery behind a regime she has spent her life serving. For the first time, collaboration becomes impossible.

With a handful of damaged allies, an intimate knowledge of the blood economy, and a precious collection of test tubes, she dares consider what it would take to break the civilization she has spent her life helping maintain.

This is a bleak book: violence, non-consensual sexual violence, body horror, forced breeding, and sustained moral ugliness. It is not erotically explicit or gore-for-gore’s-sake, but it does not look away.

If you read Atwood, Wolfe, Bakker, or Abercrombie and thought, *Coulda been a little darker*, this may be your cup of poison.

I’m looking for a few fresh beta readers. What confused you, bored you, fascinated you, disgusted you, or made you stop reading? I want all of it.

Timing: 4-6 weeks.