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California
California is Edan Lepucki's 2014 debut novel following a couple who flee collapsed Los Angeles to survive in the wilderness, only to encounter a secretive inland community.
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The top alternative to California in 2026 is Golden Son with a score of 8.8/10, followed by The City & The City (8.7) and The House of the Scorpion (8.4).
Golden Son
Golden Son is a 2015 science fiction novel by Pierce Brown and the second book in the Red Rising series. The narrative c...
The City & The City
The City & The City is a detective fiction and weird fiction novel written by British author China Miéville, published i...
The House of the Scorpion
The House of the Scorpion is a 2002 young adult science fiction novel by Nancy Farmer set in Opium, a narco-state carved...
Dark Age
Dark Age is the fifth novel in Pierce Brown's Red Rising Saga, published in 2019 and following the 2018 installment Iron...
Light Bringer
*Light Bringer* is a 2023 science fiction novel by Pierce Brown and the sixth installment in the Red Rising Saga. The na...
Monsters of Men
The final installment of Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking trilogy, published in 2010, following 'The Knife of Never Letting...
The Ask and the Answer
"The Ask and the Answer" is a 2009 young adult dystopian novel by Patrick Ness, serving as the second installment in the...
Sea of Tranquility
*Sea of Tranquility* is a 2022 science fiction novel by Emily St. John Mandel that explores themes of time travel, simul...
The Drowned Cities
The Drowned Cities is a young adult novel by Paolo Bacigalupi, published in 2012. Set in a future United States devastat...
Iron Gold
Iron Gold is a 2018 science fiction novel by Pierce Brown and the fourth book in the Red Rising Saga, continuing the sto...
Daemon
Daemon is Daniel Suarez's techno-thriller, self-published in 2006 and commercially released in 2009, about a self-execut...
Super-Cannes
Super-Cannes is a dystopian novel by British author J.G. Ballard, published in 2000. It is set in Eden-Olympia, a gated...
Jennifer Government
Jennifer Government is a satirical science fiction novel written by Australian author Max Barry and published in 2003. T...
The Mime Order
The Mime Order is a dystopian novel by Samantha Shannon, published in 2015 as the second book in The Bone Season series,...
The Mask Falling
"The Mask Falling" is a dystopian science fiction novel by Samantha Shannon, published in 2021. It is the fourth install...
Concrete Island
"Concrete Island" is a novel by British author J.G. Ballard, first published in 1974. The story centers on Robert Maitla...
The Bone Season
"The Bone Season" is a dystopian science fiction novel published in 2013 by Samantha Shannon. It follows Paige Mahoney,...
Memoirs of a Survivor
"Memoirs of a Survivor" is a 1974 dystopian novel by British author and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing. The narrative foll...
Independent Study
Independent Study is Joelle Charbonneau's 2014 YA novel, the second in The Testing trilogy, following the protagonist in...
The Fever Code
The Fever Code is James Dashner's 2016 prequel to The Maze Runner series, revealing the origin of the maze trials and th...
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