18 books like Four

What to read after Four — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Allegiant Veronica Roth · 2011 · ★ 3.6 · 503p · ≈ 16h · Moderate The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's… Shares: Loyalty, Courage, Social classes, Dystopian

After James Michael Helm · 2016 · ★ 2.9 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A neuroscientist walks out of her life and isolates herself in the woods, intending to blow the whistle on a pharmaceutical company and its creativity drug gone wrong. A recently orphaned graduate school dropout is hired as a “literary detective” to decode the work of a mysterious Internet poet who writes about disappearances and murders with an inexplicably precise knowledge of private details.… Shares: Dystopias, Dystopian, Science Fiction

Actualized Jenetta Penner · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Immersed Jenetta Penner · 2017 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

The Adjustment (Program Book 5) Suzanne Young · 2017 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The first book in Suzanne Young’s New York Times bestselling series is a “gripping tale for lovers of dystopian romance” (Kirkus Reviews) about two teens in a world where true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program—now with a freshly reimagined look.Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic,… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Configured:Book One of the Configured Trilogy Jenetta Penner · 2016 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Generation Heather Hildenbrand · 2015 Four generations of one family: a baby boy, his mother, his maternal grandmother, and his maternal great-grandmother. (2008) Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Exalta Zhiar Ali · 2026 The city doesn’t kill you. It processes you. In the fog-choked Sprawl beneath the corporate tower called Exalta, the Runner survives by staying uncounted. He carries packages he doesn’t open, follows routes he doesn’t question, and renews his identity in shrinking access windows. His existence is a suffix on a form. When the suffix expires, so does he. Liam Kestrel is a Security & Containment… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult

The Midnight Factory Russell Luyt · 2025 Shimmer makes you forget—until it takes everything. In the near-future and rain-soaked New Albion, shimmer is both escape and enslavement—and the Bureau for Virtue, always watching, ensures the world stays hooked. Anouk Walker only wanted to survive until her next fix. But when a Bureau raid tears her closest friend away, she’s pulled into a Resistance whose ideals are as compromised as its… Shares: Loyalty, Dystopian, Identity, Science Fiction

Being Good Mollie Player · 2017 · 46p · ≈ 1h · Moderate In the year 2081, Francie lived in a small village called Gallitia. It was simple. It was peaceful. It was beautiful. But there was one problem. Francie couldn’t leave. Oh, and then there were the people that wanted to bring electricity and change everything. And the boy with the very red hair, who Francie suspected was somehow part of this change. The question, then, became: Will Francie… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult

The Islander Charles Whittlesey · 2007 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In 2155 there are two Americas. Half the nation lives comfortably in the technology of the 22nd century; the other half lives trapped on pre-industrial Islands: the remains of America's collapsed cities. The two cultures collide when Galen Fairchild, an Islander, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy family in the modern city of Stratis. But Galen's dreams fall apart when a startling event… Shares: Dystopian, Science Fiction

Red Rising Pierce Brown · 2014 · ★ 4.4 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them." "I live for you," I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more." Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his… Shares: Social classes, Amerikanisches Englisch, Young Adult

Hive Jeremiah Ukponrefe · 2020 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In the aftermath of the Hives invasion of earth, the society of the old world was shattered, and in response to the possibility of the aliens return, the authoritative Collective took hold of the sphere. Alexander King a loyal soldier of the Collective discovers that on a mission that the Hive's presence is stronger then commonly believed, and that its secrets may be far too powerful for any… Shares: Dystopian

A nova ordem Bernardo Kucinski · 2019 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Assim como na sua obra maior "K", B. Kucinski poderia iniciar "A Nova Ordem" repetindo "tudo neste livro é invenção, mas quase tudo aconteceu" ou "está acontecendo". A narrativa aterradora e envolvente sobre a "nova ordem" no Brasil da ficção nos lembra aquilo que Hanna Arendt nomeou de "banalidade do mal" referindo-se aos criminosos nazistas e a… Shares: Dystopian

Mending Bodies Lai-Chu Hon · 2025 "In dystopian Hong Kong, a new government program incentivizes physical conjoinment between individuals through a painful and disruptive surgery, providing personal fulfillment and a reduced cost of living"-- Provided by publisher Shares: Dystopian

Dust (The Silo Trilogy) Hugh Howey · 2016 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate THE BASIS FOR SILO, NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW ON APPLE TV“The final book secures the status of the Wool trilogy as a modern masterpiece.”—Sunday ExpressThe final book in the New York Times bestselling Silo trilogy, featuring an original short story from Hugh Howey set in the Silo universe!Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall.… Shares: Dystopian, Science Fiction

Stand by for Mars! Carey Rockwell · 1952 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Moderate STAND BY FOR MARS! finds the three young "rocketeers" at the Space Academy undergoing the arduous training of Space Cadets. When their tactical training cruise crash lands on Mars, their desperate adventures on the planet of burning deserts and endless canals will make them seasoned veteran spacemen -- if they live long enough for rescue!STAND BY FOR MARS is the first in the Tom Corbet, Space… Shares: Young Adult, Science Fiction

Up the Line Robert Silverberg · 1969 · ★ 3.7 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event, without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past and interfere with events to come. The deterrents for any such actions were frighteningly… Shares: Young Adult, Science Fiction

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