Books like V for Vendetta

If you liked V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Watchmen

    Alan Moore · 1987

    Because also by Alan Moore; shares tags: graphic novel, dystopia.

    A full retelling of Alan Moore's Watchmen: a retired hero's death in 1985 America sparks a sprawling plot with an exiled god and a shocking…

  2. Golden Son

    Pierce Brown · 2015 · Red Rising Saga #2

    Because shares tags: dystopia, revolution.

    Darrow serves House Augustus as a Gold officer while plotting revolt, until a gala refusal, a duel with Cassius, and a Triumph betrayal…

  3. The Testaments

    Margaret Atwood · 2019 · The Handmaid's Tale #2

    Because shares tags: dystopia, politics.

    Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole conspire to bring down Gilead fifteen years later.

  4. Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand · 1957

    Because shares tags: dystopia, politics.

    Railroads strain under rules as Dagny fights to keep trains running and find a missing inventor.

  5. Red Rising

    Pierce Brown · 2014 · Red Rising Saga #1

    Because shares tags: dystopia, revolution.

    Darrow, a Red miner on Mars, loses his wife and is remade as a Gold to infiltrate the Institute, where teens wage war for power and he…

  6. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

    Suzanne Collins · 2020 · The Hunger Games

    Because shares tags: dystopia, politics.

    Young Coriolanus Snow mentors Lucy Gray in the 10th Hunger Games.

  7. The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood · 1985 · The Handmaid's Tale #1

    Because shares tags: dystopia, politics.

    Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale retold: Offred in Gilead, the Commander, Serena Joy, Mayday, and the van.

  8. We Should All Be Feminists

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2014

    Because shares tag: politics.

    Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.

  9. The Things They Carried

    Tim O'Brien · 1990

    Because shares tag: classic.

    Alpha Company humps through Vietnam carrying rifles, letters, and guilt. O'Brien's linked 1990 collection asks what a true war story really…

  10. The Remains of the Day

    Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989

    Because shares tag: classic.

    Stevens, the perfect English butler, drives west in 1956 and looks back on Darlington Hall, Miss Kenton, and a life spent serving.

  11. The Prophet

    Kahlil Gibran · 1923

    Because shares tag: classic.

    A prophet delayed twelve years answers his city on love, work, sorrow and freedom before his ship sails.

  12. The Holy Bible: King James Version

    Anonymous · 1611

    Because shares tag: classic.

    The 1611 King James Bible in a 1,472-page Thomas Nelson edition: from Genesis to Revelation, law, prophets, Gospels, and letters.

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