18 books like The Machine Society

What to read after The Machine Society — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Martians Blythe Woolston · 2015 · ★ 3.2 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Sharp and satirical, this dark comedy will appeal to fans of M.T. Anderson's groundbreaking dystopia, Feed. An unsettling story of consumerism gone mad, MARTians imagines a not-so-distant future where our lives are ruled by the purchases we make. Last girl Zoe Zindleman, numerical ID 009-99-9999, is starting work at AllMART, where your smile is the AllMART welcome mat . Her living arrangements… Shares Consumption, Imaginary places, Dystopian

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

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

A nova ordem

A nova ordem Bernardo Kucinski · 2019 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Dystopian with this book.

Exalta

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 &… Shares Dystopian

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

Utopian Visions and Revisions Artur Blaim · 2016 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Dystopian with this book.

Malafrena Ursula K. Le Guin · 1979 · ★ 3.6 · 369p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A book about freedom and commitment. Shares Imaginary places

The Alloy of Law Brandon Sanderson · 2001 · ★ 4.2 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are… Shares Imaginary places

The Adjustment (Program Book 5) Suzanne Young · 2017 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Dystopian with this book.

Immersed Jenetta Penner · 2017 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Dystopian with this book.

Configured:Book One of the Configured Trilogy Jenetta Penner · 2016 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Dystopian with this book.

Actualized Jenetta Penner · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Dystopian with this book.

Generation Heather Hildenbrand · 2015 Shares Dystopian with this book.

Being Good Mollie Player · 2017 · 46p · ≈ 1h · Light 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

Fields of wrath Mickey Zucker Reichert · 2015 · ★ 4.4 · 610p · ≈ 20h · Moderate "Nearly two decades ago, Mickey Zucker Reichert introduced fantasy readers to her greatest creation--the Renshai, a race of warriors who lived for battle and swordcraft, and who began training in the art of war from the moment their fingers could grasp a weapon. Set in a world enriched by Norse mythology, Mickey's first two trilogies about the Renshai--The Last of the Renshai and The Renshai… Shares Imaginary places

After James

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 Dystopian

Spent

Spent Geoffrey Miller · 2009 · ★ 4.1 A leading evolutionary psychologist probes the hidden instincts behind our working, shopping, and spendingEvolutionary psychologythe compelling science of human naturehas clarified the prehistoric origins of human behavior and influenced many fields ranging from economics to personal relationships. In Spent Geoffrey Miller applies this revolutionary sciences principles to a new domain: the… Shares Consumption

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