Books like “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

What to read after “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Anthem
Ayn Rand · 1938
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia” and “Philosophical”
- Dystopia
- Philosophical
In a future run by the collective, the word I has no meaning and all work is done for the good of all. Equality 7-2521 breaks the rules by doing forbidden research and falling in love, then flees a society that cannot allow an individual to exist.
2
Earth Abides
George R. Stewart · 1949
Similar atmosphere: “Philosophical”
- Philosophical
- Post-Apocalyptic World
A plague kills nearly everyone on Earth. An ecologist emerges from the mountains to find empty cities and a few survivors, and spends the rest of his life watching a new, smaller society take shape without the old world's machinery.
3
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr. · 1959
Similar atmosphere: “Philosophical”
- Philosophical
- Post-Apocalyptic World
After a nuclear war, monks in a desert abbey preserve the few books that survive, including a blueprint signed by a martyred engineer. Across centuries they copy, guard and argue over the relics while civilisation slowly rebuilds and then repeats its old mistakes.
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The Time Machine
H. G. Wells · 1895
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia” and “Philosophical”
- Dystopia
- Philosophical
An inventor builds a machine that carries him far into the future. He finds a gentle people living above ground and a sinister race below, and slowly learns what became of humanity. A short, influential tale of time travel and a dark vision of the end.
5
Wool
Hugh Howey · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Post-Apocalyptic World
In a future where the air outside is deadly, people live in a buried silo and are told that anyone who asks to go outside will be sent there to die. When a sheriff starts asking questions about the world beyond the walls, the silo's careful order begins to crack.
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The Chrysalids
John Wyndham · 1955
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Post-Apocalyptic World
In a post-nuclear Labrador, communities destroy deformed crops and animals and kill, sterilize or banish people who do not match the true form. A boy who can speak with his mind hides his gift among friends, until discovery forces them to flee toward a fabled safe place.
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The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi · 2009
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Morally Grey Character
In a flooded, calorie-poor Bangkok kept alive by genetic engineering, an American trader hunts for lost seed banks while a manufactured woman bred as a servant tries to survive. Their paths cross with corporate enforcers and a city about to boil over.
8
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia” and “Philosophical”
- Dystopia
- Philosophical
In the glass city of OneState, citizens live by a strict timetable and are known only by numbers. When the mathematician D-503 begins to keep a private journal, a woman named I-330 draws him into a movement that wants to tear down the walls of the ordered world.
9
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1953
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in a future where reading is a crime and screens fill every quiet moment. After a young neighbour asks him whether he is happy, curiosity makes him hide a book of his own, and he begins to question everything his job stands for.
10
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia” and “Philosophical”
- Dystopia
- Philosophical
In a future where citizens are engineered for contentment and kept calm with a drug called soma, Bernard Marx and the Savage John discover the cost of a stable, pleasure-driven society. John's arrival from a reservation exposes the emptiness behind the World State's comfort.
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Post-Apocalyptic World
A father and his young son walk through a burned America, pushing a cart of scavenged supplies and hiding from bands of survivors who hunt people for food. Their only aim is to keep moving south and stay alive while holding on to decency.
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Solaris
Stanisław Lem · 1961
Similar atmosphere: “Philosophical”
- Philosophical
A scientist arrives at a station orbiting the ocean planet Solaris, where the crew is haunted by visitors shaped from their own memories. As the planet resists every attempt to understand it, he confronts what the living sea seems to be doing to them.