7 must-read dystopia books like The Body Library by Jeff Noon

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The Body Library

By: Jeff Noon

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jeff Noon returns with a staggering hallucinogenic sequel to A Man of Shadows, taking hapless inves…

If you liked the dystopia plot in The Body Library by Jeff Noon , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1) by Max Gladstone

1. Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)

By: Max Gladstone

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of … read more

Similar categories in Max Gladstone's Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"There’s never any ‘ just ’ about thinking."

-Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)

"His hair scratched her palm like a nest of wires."

-Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)

"Put not your trust in things, but in men. And women."

-Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)

"Be careful. As if something’s going to jump us in a library."

-Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)

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2. Eye in the Sky

By: Philip K. Dick

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

While sightseeing at the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven others, is caught in a l… read more

Similar categories in Philip K. Dick's Eye in the Sky book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Birthday (Ring, #4) by Kōji Suzuki, Glynne Walley

3. Birthday (Ring, #4)

By: Kōji Suzuki , Glynne Walley

2.86

Format: 358 pages,

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Similar categories in Kōji Suzuki's Birthday (Ring, #4) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

Similar categories in China Miéville's Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • new weird
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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5. Babel-17

By: Samuel R. Delany

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more

Similar categories in Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17 book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Lair (Rats, #2) by James Herbert

6. Lair (Rats, #2)

By: James Herbert

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the o… read more

Similar categories in James Herbert's Lair (Rats, #2) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

By: Kim Newman

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian P… read more

Similar categories in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Stand on Zanzibar

By: John Brunner

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporati… read more

Similar categories in John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
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9. number9dream

By: David Mitchell

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's number9dream book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Helliconia Spring (Helliconia, #1) by Brian W. Aldiss

10. Helliconia Spring (Helliconia, #1)

By: Brian W. Aldiss

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: … read more

Similar categories in Brian W. Aldiss's Helliconia Spring (Helliconia, #1) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

11. Amatka

By: Karin Tidbeck

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A surreal and shockingly original debut novel set in a dystopian world shaped by language--literall… read more

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12. Dark Entries

By: Robert Aickman

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth … read more

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13. The Salmon of Doubt (Dirk Gently, #3)

By: Douglas Adams

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Douglas Adams changed the face of science fiction with his cosmically comic novel The Hitchhiker's … read more

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14. China: A History

By: John Keay

4.50

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

This narrative history of China takes in everything from the earliest times to the present day. The… read more

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15. The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.15

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original tha… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being."

-Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

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16. War Bodies (Polity Universe, #1.5)

By: Neal Asher

4.16

Format: 572 pages, Kindle Edition

Rebellion could be their salvation – or their doom. War Bodies by Neal Asher is a gripping, high-oc… read more

Similar categories in Neal Asher's War Bodies (Polity Universe, #1.5) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Malarkoi (Cities of the Weft, #2) by Alex Pheby

17. Malarkoi (Cities of the Weft, #2)

By: Alex Pheby

3.75

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Nathan Treeves is dead, murdered by the Master of Mordew, his remains used to create the powerful o… read more

Similar categories in Alex Pheby's Malarkoi (Cities of the Weft, #2) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

18. Hummingbird Salamander

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered sp… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Hummingbird Salamander book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
"But the trick of the world was to contain all things."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

"Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

"I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

"The Christmas decorations at the entrance were garish, incomprehensible, partisan. What kind of a country did we live in?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

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19. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2) by Matt Ruff

20. The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

By: Matt Ruff

3.94

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

“Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”— … read more

Similar categories in Matt Ruff's The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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21. The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

By: Josiah Bancroft

3.82

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josia… read more

Similar categories in Josiah Bancroft's The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"Administrators are oblivious and generally get in the way; effective employees learn to work around them. That's how it always is."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like our rock does. They call them nomads. These nomads are up there wanderi…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

Cover of Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1) by Alex Pheby

22. Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

By: Alex Pheby

3.60

Format: 617 pages, Hardcover

GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered… read more

Similar categories in Alex Pheby's Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1) book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You will be judged on your actions, not by accidents of birth. Yet now, for the Master's purposes, you are worse than nothing...Again, do not let this disturb you-many malodorous things have a use. S…"

-Alex Pheby, Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

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23. Cage of Souls

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.13

Format: 602 pages, Hardcover

The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all citi… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Cage of Souls book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He'll be my catamite."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

"Living in a cage teaches you helplessness."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

"When surrounded by ignorance, the educated man can get away with anything."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

"Even the simplest plans go wrong, especially when put together by the simplest people."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

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24. Shadow Captain

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.81

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down mo… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Shadow Captain book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Hollow Ones by Guillermo del Toro

25. The Hollow Ones

By: Guillermo del Toro

3.69

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A horrific crime that defies ordinary explanation. A rookie FBI agent in dangerous, uncharted terri… read more

Similar categories in Guillermo del Toro's The Hollow Ones book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fantasy
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26. Weaponized

By: Neal Asher

3.90

Format: 542 pages, Kindle Edition

With the advent of new AI technology, Polity citizens now possess incredible lifespans. Yet they st… read more

Similar categories in Neal Asher's Weaponized book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

27. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Stardust Grail book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds

28. Bone Silence

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.89

Format: 603 pages, Hardcover

Return to the third book in the Revenger Trilogy, for another thrilling tale of set among the stars… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Bone Silence book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves

29. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

Similar categories in Keanu Reeves's The Book of Elsewhere book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
Cover of The Body Library by Jeff Noon

30. The Body Library

By: Jeff Noon

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jeff Noon returns with a staggering hallucinogenic sequel to A Man of Shadows, taking hapless inves… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Noon's The Body Library book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library by Darrell Schweitzer

31. The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library

By: Darrell Schweitzer

4.08

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Miskatonic University, in fabled Arkham Massachusetts, has long been described in the fiction of H.… read more

Similar categories in Darrell Schweitzer's The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library book and Jeff Noon's The Body Library

  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

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Max Gladstone

3.97

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Philip K. Dick

3.74

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2.86

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3.80

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Neal Asher , Neal L. Asher

3.79

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Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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3.83

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