Matched - Control Over People's Bodies and Censorship Dystopia
Going outside is highly overrated.
Ready Player One - AI/Social Media/VR Dystopia
My father always told me that a person is made up of all the little choices they make in life.
The Grace Year - Control Over People's Bodies Dystopia
In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.
Unwind - War and Control Over People's Bodies Dystopia
Adult
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
The Handmaid's Tale - Control Over People's Bodies and Religious Dystopia
“Remember that just because something is, doesn’t mean it can’t change, and just because you haven’t seen something before, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.”
Chain-Gang All-Stars - prison-industrial complex, systemic racism, and the exploitation of violence for entertainment and profit
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
1984 - dangers of totalitarian government
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
Brave New World - Totalitarianism and the loss of individuality
“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
Fahrenheit 451 - the loss of art
Middle Grade
“If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!”
