Books Like The Giver Where Someone Carries What Everyone Else Forgot

A society that runs smoothly because one person holds the cost. The premise has aged extremely well.

1. 1. The Memory Police

   by Yōko Ogawa

   Objects vanish from an island and from memory, enforced by the state. The literary version.

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   2. The Forty-Year Passenger On this site

   by Simran Mehta

   Every door aboard costs one true memory of the person you would go back for. Abel has opened eleven in fifteen years.

3. 3. Never Let Me Go

   by Kazuo Ishiguro

   The children know part of it. The horror is how calmly they accept the rest.

4. 4. Fahrenheit 451

   by Ray Bradbury

   People who become books because there is nowhere else to keep them.

5. 5. Station Eleven

   by Emily St. John Mandel

   What a civilisation chooses to carry forward, and why it picks Shakespeare.