11 must-read dystopia books like Thirsty Animals by Rachelle Atalla

Cover of Thirsty Animals by Rachelle Atalla

Thirsty Animals

By: Rachelle Atalla

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is running out of water. Aida is forced back home to live on the farm with her mum. Fo…

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Cover of In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut

1. In a Strange Room

By: Damon Galgut

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To … read more

Similar categories in Damon Galgut's In a Strange Room book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Moths (Moths, #1) by Jane Hennigan

2. Moths (Moths, #1)

By: Jane Hennigan

3.98

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Moths: A chilling dystopian thriller and a must-read debut for 2023 A divergent future with a th… read more

Similar categories in Jane Hennigan's Moths (Moths, #1) book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

3. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

4. The Mars House

By: Natasha Pulley

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's The Mars House book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
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5. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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6. Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more

Similar categories in Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • fiction
Cover of Black Butterflies by Priscilla  Morris

7. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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8. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Queen Macbeth book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • scotland
  • fiction
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9. Scabby Queen

By: Kirstin Innes

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more

Similar categories in Kirstin Innes's Scabby Queen book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"

-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

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10. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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11. In Defence of the Act

By: Effie Black

4.12

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more

Similar categories in Effie Black's In Defence of the Act book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

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12. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • science fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

Cover of Now We Are Animals by R.P. Nathan

13. Now We Are Animals

By: R.P. Nathan

4.30

Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition

What would you do if the human race suddenly got deposed by a higher species who set about colonisi… read more

Similar categories in R.P. Nathan's Now We Are Animals book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of The Silence Project by Carole Hailey

14. The Silence Project

By: Carole Hailey

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

On Emilia Morris's thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their … read more

Similar categories in Carole Hailey's The Silence Project book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • dystopia
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Sentence by Christina Dalcher

15. The Sentence

By: Christina Dalcher

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A law intended to end capital punishment. Prosecutors who seek the death penalty put their lives… read more

Similar categories in Christina Dalcher's The Sentence book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of She's a Killer by Kirsten McDougall

16. She's a Killer

By: Kirsten McDougall

3.63

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The world’s climate is in crisis and New Zealand is being divided and reshaped by the arrival of pr… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten McDougall's She's a Killer book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
"I’m a fan of unhappy endings. They’re more honest."

-Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer

"The internet made you feel like something might happen."

-Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer

"In times of crisis people look for guidance to great artists."

-Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer

"I was capable of astral travel while looking like I was entirely present."

-Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer

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17. The Memory of Animals

By: Claire Fuller

3.61

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Un… read more

Similar categories in Claire Fuller's The Memory of Animals book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans."

-Claire Fuller, The Memory of Animals

Cover of Ginger and Me by Elissa Soave

18. Ginger and Me

By: Elissa Soave

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize. Wendy is nineteen and living alone.All… read more

Similar categories in Elissa Soave's Ginger and Me book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • scotland
  • fiction
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19. The Space Between Us

By: Doug Johnstone

3.86

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

When several people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake complete… read more

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  • science fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre

20. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

Similar categories in Chris Brookmyre's The Cracked Mirror book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Escape Room by L.D. Smithson

21. The Escape Room

By: L.D. Smithson

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Everything is a clue. Eight strangers arrive at a remote sea fort off the coast of England. They a… read more

Similar categories in L.D. Smithson's The Escape Room book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • fiction
Cover of Three Fires by Denise Mina

22. Three Fires

By: Denise Mina

3.73

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Spendthrift and the Swallow (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #3.5) by Ambrose Parry

23. The Spendthrift and the Swallow (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #3.5)

By: Ambrose Parry

3.78

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Edinburgh, 1853. In a city where reputation is everything, it doesn’t take much to destroy a man. … read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Parry's The Spendthrift and the Swallow (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #3.5) book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of The Forcing by Paul E. Hardisty

24. The Forcing

By: Paul E. Hardisty

3.90

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Lured by rumours of tropical sanctuary, a disparate group of men and women escape their inhospitabl… read more

Similar categories in Paul E. Hardisty's The Forcing book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
Cover of Thirsty Animals by Rachelle Atalla

25. Thirsty Animals

By: Rachelle Atalla

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is running out of water. Aida is forced back home to live on the farm with her mum. Fo… read more

Similar categories in Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • literary fiction
  • apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • climate change fiction
Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

26. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • fiction
Cover of Dead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes

27. Dead Animals

By: Phoebe Stuckes

3.61

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

There is something creeping at the edge of your vision, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of What a Way to Go by Bella Mackie

28. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of This Fragile Earth by Susannah Wise

29. This Fragile Earth

By: Susannah Wise

3.38

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

What would you do to protect your family if the world stopped working?Not long from now, in a recog… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Wise's This Fragile Earth book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change fiction
Cover of The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse

30. The Coming Darkness

By: Greg Mosse

3.71

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling debut that has been likened to John Le Carré and Raymond Chandler . . . Paris, 2037.… read more

Similar categories in Greg Mosse's The Coming Darkness book and Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
Cover of Out of the Rubble by Sally Nicholls

31. Out of the Rubble

By: Sally Nicholls

3.21

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

It's early 1945, the War is nearly over and across the country, evacuees are returning home. Jud… read more

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