I am looking for Utopian/Dystopian books that are not YA. I want full adult books with everything that comes with them. I really enjoyed Vivarium on Netflix and would love to see some liminal aspects of the utopian-style dystopia. I also LOVED reading and watching The Giver by Lois Lowry; it's probably my fav Utopian/Dystopian book of all time.
What I enjoyed about Vivarium on netflix was How the alian trapped humans to raise their young that was cool as heck and I would love to learn more about the infinate house maze and why they cant eacape

what i loved about The Giver is how everything is regulated even birth, and the plot twist with them not really having emotions and killing babies is crazy. I loved it so much and how jonas went and saved gabriel from death

The 5th Wave series, The Rule Of Three triology, The Atlantis Gene trilogy, Rot & Ruin series, Pandemic & Genome, The Quarantine Series - Lex Thomas, Unwind; Unwhole; Unsold; Undivided; - Neil Shusterman, Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four - Veronica Roth, The Lost Colony; The Solar War; Winter World - A.G. Riddle, Ashfall; Ashen Winter; Sunrise - Mike Mullen, Unplugged; The Body Market; The Mind Virus - Donna Freitas.

Defriending the Librarian, week 2. A dystopian noir serial. A disgraced cop, a suspicious suicide, and one shot at getting his old life back. Will he do it? Join me and find out. 

This Week: Derek gets access to Otis Dykeman's workplace, and to the luxury apartment where that man died. His assignment is to the secret of Otis's code. But a giant bathtub and a near miss divert his attention.

Serializing on Ream Stories. Chapters 9-11 dropped for subscribers. Read up to chapter 8 free today. )

A taste of the prose from Chapter 10:

She leads me to the end of the row, to a dark office four times the size of hers. Entering the space makes me almost thankful I work in Data. Despite its size, the room smells like a boy’s junior-high locker room. With no luck, I strain to try and breathe Shirley’s perfume again. Apparently unmindful of the overpowering odor is a man in a dirty T-shirt with the FastBack logo across the front. Shaggy brown hair pointing in all directions, he hasn’t shaved for a week or so. Tiny glasses do little to protect his baggy bloodshot eyes. It’s a typical programmer’s uniform. Some of my coworkers dress better on a fifth of his salary. His round face reveals he’s as well fed as Shirley.

Details:

• Standalone mystery with dystopian bones: privatized policing, tax enforcement as street muscle, and a city that's cold in more ways than one - New chapters every Wednesday on Ream).
• Ream subscribers read new chapters a week ahead of free readers. Wednesday to Wednesday, both the new and free content keeps growing.
• The novel is complete. This isn't a WIP. The whole book is written and edited. You're watching a release schedule, not a writing process. Final chapter: January 20, 2027.
• Happy to answer questions about the world, the writing, or the Gray Zone in the comments.

I'm Anthony Torrero Collins, the author. Derek is usually immersed in his work. But this one time he chooses water first.

Question for the sub from the free tier: Would you let a wealthy stranger into your home the day her brother died, on the strength of a job you're not allowed to take?

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?