Margaret Atwood 1986
- What it is
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A society that controls everything · a threat that keeps growing
- Genre
- Science fiction Classics
- Feels
- Melancholic Unsettling Defiant Dark Tense
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to The Handmaid's Tale
Coming from The Handmaid's Tale? Start with Fahrenheit 451, 1984 and Animal Farm, We. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury 1953
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1984 and Animal Farm
George Orwell 1978
A reader shelved it with yours in Dystopias
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin 1959
It gets under your skin · it messes with your head
1984
George Orwell 1956
Grouped with yours in Small rebellions that become enormous
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley 2004
It stirs you up inside · nothing is quite what it seems
The Every
Dave Eggers 2021
It gets under your skin · it messes with your head
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood 2002
It stirs you up inside · melancholic and unhurried
The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan 2022
It stirs you up inside · pitch-black comedy
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville 2000
It gets under your skin · full of big ideas
Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke 2026
Readers put them together in Houses that close around the woman inside
7 books · Alike in just one
Only it gets under your skin
Water Cure
Sophie Mackintosh 2018
Readers put them together in Houses that close around the woman inside
Devil's Day
Andrew Michael Hurley 2017
It stirs you up inside, but in horror
Starve Acre
Andrew Michael Hurley 2019
It stirs you up inside, but in horror
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez 2019
It stirs you up inside, but in horror
The girls
Emma Cline 2016
It stirs you up inside, but in literary fiction
Farm
Joanne Ramos 2019
A reader shelved it with yours in Houses that close around the woman inside
Roadside Picnic
Strugatsky 1978
It gets under your skin · it messes with your head
9 books · Alike in just one
Only dystopia
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman 1995
Grouped with yours in Dystopias
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess 1972
It stirs you up inside · no clean hands here
Chain-gang All-stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2023
In common with yours: dystopia · it leaves you shaken
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami 2025
Unsettling from the first page · nothing is quite what it seems
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica 2015
It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you shaken
Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson 2020
In common with yours: dystopia · fierce and defiant
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein 2011
Like yours: dystopia · full of big ideas
Autonomous
Annalee Newitz 2017
Like yours: dystopia · nobody is entirely good
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