Metro 2035

As a slightly different take I’d recommend SS-GB. Technically it’s an alternative history novel whether the Nazis won WWII and conquered the UK… But that’s pretty dystopian in practice, especially when the main character is a policeman.

I don’t know if The Trial counts exactly as a dystopia but it certainly conjures up the paranoia and confusion of being caught up in a beruacratic nightmare like you might find in a police state.

High Rise is a great satire on the class system translated to people moving into the then new high rise blocks in the UK - only the rich can afford the apartments at the top and so on. The first sentence involves the hero having to eat a dog to survive.

A Clockwork Orange has been mentioned already, but it’s easily my favourite. And very different and more brutal than the film, which is also great but more its own thing. Alex is a much nastier piece of work in the book, and the last chapter of the novel isn’t in the film

1. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It’s a must read if you’re into dystopia. Unlike Orwell, Huxley doesn’t focus on politics of his time. Specially good to read alongside Island, an utopia of the same author, dealing with similar topics (society, drugs, the human condition).
2. Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange. It has some satirical vibes, but it is not a good book to read if you’re feeling down (content warning: sexual violence). It focuses on a teen gang leader in the near future, and talks about themes like the impact of free will on morality.
3. William Golding’ Lord of the Flies. Technically not a dystopia, but it “scratches” the same itch. It’s about a bunch of kids dumped in an island, without adult supervision, and the resulting nasty proto-society that they build from it.
4. Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. It’s perhaps one of the grandparents of the genre; it talks about individuality on a society controlled by a state that managed to conquer the whole globe.

There’s also Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. I don’t recommend it - the book is basically a “if Orwell was right-wing, soapboxing instead of trying to explain what’s going on, and with poor writing skills”. Seriously.

I have not quite finished the book yet, but Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future is hard-science fiction set in the near future when climate change tipping points start to be reached, and it is so far my favorite book in a long time. It is dystopian, but not bleak or hopeless.