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Dystopian books to escape our Dystopian times!
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items When you want to escape into a different messed up world!
Exciting, thrilling, mind bending books, dystopia of all kinds!
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Series - Longer Adventures
Standalone Adventures
Series - Longer Adventures
Ever since the settlers were infected, Todd can hear everything men think and they hear everything he thinks…. all women are thought to be dead. Until Todd comes across someone whose thoughts he cannot hear… Amazing, thought provoking and tear jerkin...
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) - Goodreads
One of my absolute favourite series of books!
Two teenagers in each district are selected to battle to the death in a televised arena…
Two teenagers in each district are selected to battle to the death in a televised arena…
The Hunger Games
One of my all time faves!
A deadly pandemic runs rampant across earth, leaving those left alive with visions, two forces seem to emerge destined to clash!
A deadly pandemic runs rampant across earth, leaving those left alive with visions, two forces seem to emerge destined to clash!
The Stand
A young woman flees societal collapse while creating a belief system to save humanity!
Parable of the Sower
I wish I could go back and read this again for the first time. I can still remember where I was and everything. So different from anything I had read at the time.
After genetic engineering destroys humanity a lone survivor searches for answers….
After genetic engineering destroys humanity a lone survivor searches for answers….
Oryx and Crake
Just read this and couldn't put it down, a different take on the end of the world set in an indigenous community in northern Ontario! The power goes out right in the midst of a difficult winter, we don't know why. Then a stranger appears…..
Moon of the Crusted Snow
A good book, scary. Margaret Attwood draws on things that have already happened in history to bring us this terrifying look at a future!
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Atwood
Second in this amazing series, highly recommend!!
Catching Fire
Another Margaret Attwood, she writes dystopia so well.
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as t...
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as t...
The Year of the Flood
The third in the Hunger Games Series, Katniss up against the Capital again! So good.
Mockingjay
A great book with another female protagonist who is going to save the world! Exciting and fun read!
Divergent by Veronica Roth (9780062024039)
Second in the Divergent series, Tris is battling and romancing!
Insurgent
The final in the Divergent series - What if a single revelation – like a single choice – changed everything?What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?
Allegiant
The 3rd in the series, which starts with Oryx and Crake.
Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood’s unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future.
Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood’s unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future.
MaddAddam (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 3)
The Hunger Games meets Lost…. this is an incredible series with so many twists, turns and interesting characters!
The 100: Hunger Games meets Divergent
A mysterious worldwide epidemic reduces the birthrate of female infants from 50 percent to less than 1 percent. Medical science and governments around the world scramble in an effort to solve the problem, but twenty-five years later there is no cure,...
The Last Girl
Sequel to The Last Girl, amazing series!
Zoey is not the woman she once was. She’s watched her friends die at the hands of their captors, been hunted, and returned from the brink of death. Now she must find the truth about who she is.
Zoey is not the woman she once was. She’s watched her friends die at the hands of their captors, been hunted, and returned from the brink of death. Now she must find the truth about who she is.
The Final Trade
Another female protagonist saving us all! But really good and also quite apt for this day and age….
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. In just a few weeks she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty. And as a pretty, she’ll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her ...
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. In just a few weeks she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty. And as a pretty, she’ll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her ...
Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld - Goodreads
Lord of the Flies meets end of the world with super powers! A brilliant series, highly recommend 👌
Gone
Standalone Adventures
The Classic, the first book of this genre I read. Big Brother is watching! Couldn't be more apt for reading for the times we are finding ourselves in
Nineteen Eighty-Four
A tale of oppression, tyranny and propaganda… also very apt for the times we find ourselves in. Another classic.
Animal Farm by George Orwell - Arvind Gupta Toys
A father and son navigate a ruined ash covered America.
The Road
The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possess...
The best book by the author of Twilight! So good, I could not put this down.
The best book by the author of Twilight! So good, I could not put this down.
The Host
Another classic and one of the first in this genre I read.
Dystopian Social Scifi, citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical condi...
Dystopian Social Scifi, citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical condi...
Brave New World
Really good and different book!
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't b...
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't b...
The Girl with All the Gifts
On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day take charge, while girls know they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood. But before that time comes, a rit...
Gather the Daughters
So different and intriguing… had me hooked from the first paragraph!
Everyone loses something to the Tox; Hetty lost her eye, Reese's hand has changed, and Byatt just disappeared completely. It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savag...
Everyone loses something to the Tox; Hetty lost her eye, Reese's hand has changed, and Byatt just disappeared completely. It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savag...
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Bleak look at a penal colony on the edge of nothing
On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them ...
On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them ...
On Earth As It Is Beneath