Our Favorite Dystopian Fiction

When the world feels like it can't get any worse, these books will make you feel better

Librarian — November 14, 2024

In the movie The Matrix, the question is asked, if the machines could make any world for humans that they wanted, why not make a perfect one? Why not make a utopia? Then everyone would be happy.

The answer was that they tried that. But humans rejected that world. And so the machines recreated the late 20th century, and humans were happy. Or, at least they didn't reject the world.

Maybe that observation goes some way toward explaining our attraction to dystopian fiction. We can't seem to get enough of worlds where the few remaining fertile women are turned into sex slaves for wealthy clergymen, or worlds where children are picked at random to fight to the death on a TV reality show. We don't reject these worlds. We're drawn to them.

It's not clear whether this is saying something about humans, or about the kind of world we've got accustomed to. It's possible that we recognize our own feelings of futility and dehumanization in the characters in the dystopias. Their feelings are entirely justified. Maybe we receive validation about our own feelings from the characters in the novels.

Or, maybe our fears about technology and inequality are reflected back to us in these dystopic worlds. Sunny technological utopias don't feel real to us. These worlds strike us as more plausible extensions of our own world.

Whatever it is, these are popular and influential books. We've chosen what we think are the ones to read first.

In the movie The Matrix, the question is asked, if the machines could make any world for humans that they wanted, why not make a perfect one? Why not make a utopia? Then everyone would be happy.

The answer was that they tried that. But humans rejected that world. And so the machines recreated the late 20th century, and humans were happy. Or, at least they didn't reject the world.

Whatever it is, these are popular and influential books. We've chosen what we think are the ones to read first.

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1984

George Orwell

HarperCollins | Sep 3, 2013

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"A classic dystopian novel presenting a chilling depiction of totalitarianism, surveillance, and the manipulation of truth in a society stripped of freedom."

1984

George Orwell

HarperCollins, 2013

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75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

McClelland & Stewart | Sep 6, 2011

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"In a dystopian future, women are subjugated under a totalitarian regime, and one woman's struggle for freedom reveals the depths of despair and resilience."

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

McClelland & Stewart, 2011

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An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.

In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Ray Bradbury

Simon and Schuster | Jan 1, 2012

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"In a society where books are banned and 'firemen' burn any that are found, one fireman begins to see the value of literature and freedom."

Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Ray Bradbury

Simon and Schuster, 2012

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"Sixty years after the original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel 'Fahrenheit 451' stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author ; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others ; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive ; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature."—taken from back cover.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Penguin | Aug 1, 1993

"Considered one of the first dystopian novels, Zamyatin's story of a future regimented society critiques conformity and the loss of individuality."

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Penguin, 1993

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen

Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Scholastic | Dec 1, 2011

"In a dystopian future where children are forced to fight to the death for entertainment, Katniss Everdeen discovers the power of rebellion."

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Scholastic, 2011

Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone fighting against you? Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death — televised for all of Panem to see. Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Divergent

Veronica Roth

HarperCollins Publishers Limited | Apr 11, 2024

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"In a future society divided into factions, Tris Prior discovers she does not fit into any one group and must navigate a dangerous world as a Divergent."

Divergent

Veronica Roth

HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2024

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She turns to the future in a world that's falling apart.

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller DIVERGENT - also a major motion picture.

For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out, alone, determined to find out where she truly belongs.

Shocked by the brutality of her new life, Tris can trust no one. And yet she is drawn to a boy who seems to both threaten and protect her. The hardest choices may yet lie ahead....

The first book in the DIVERGENT series that has swept the globe - selling millions of copies world-wide.

Brave New World Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

National Geographic Books | Aug 28, 2007

"Huxley's thought-provoking exploration of dystopia revisits the chilling predictions of his original work, questioning human nature, consumerism, and the very essence of happiness."

Brave New World Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

National Geographic Books, 2007

Huxley’s classic is bookended by the original introduction by Margaret Atwood and his fascinating non-fiction work, written in 1958, in which he compares the modern-day world with the dystopian fantasy he envisioned in Brave New World.

Nearly thirty years after the publication of Brave New World, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality in Brave New World Revisited and argued that many of his fictional fantasies had grown uncomfortably close to the truth. Sharing his views on issues such as overpopulation, propaganda, the art of selling and brainwashing, Huxley gives a vigorous, astute analysis of the nature of power and authority in modern society. Brave New World Revisited is an urgent and powerful appeal for the defence of individualism still alarmingly relevant today.

The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Cormac McCarthy

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Mar 20, 2007

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"A haunting tale of a father and son journeying through a bleak, post-apocalyptic landscape, struggling for survival against all odds."

The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Cormac McCarthy

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive that “only adds to McCarthy’s stature as a living master. It’s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle).

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

Philip K. Dick

Random House Publishing Group | Feb 26, 2008

"In a post-apocalyptic Earth, a bounty hunter tasked with 'retiring' rogue androids must confront his own humanity in a world filled with moral ambiguity."

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

Philip K. Dick

Random House Publishing Group, 2008

A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner

By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire” them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force.

Praise for Philip K. Dick

“The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world.”—John Brunner

“A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.”—The New York Times

“[Philip K. Dick] sees all the sparkling—and terrifying—possibilities . . . that other authors shy away from.”—Rolling Stone

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Penguin Books Limited | Oct 27, 1994

"In a future America where the government has collapsed, a hacker and pizza delivery driver uncovers a virtual drug threatening both the digital and physical worlds."

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Penguin Books Limited, 1994

THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL

After the Internet, what came next?

Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state.

This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T.. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.

In this special edition of the remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson explores

linguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future.

'Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century' William Gibson

'Brilliantly realized' New York Times Book Review

'Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed' Washington Post

'A remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape' Vanity Fair

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Jan 1, 2014

"In a seemingly utopian society devoid of pain and suffering, Jonas discovers the darker truths behind his community's serene facade when he becomes the Receiver of Memory."

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.

This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and an exclusive Q&A with cast members, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites, and Cameron Monaghan.

Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas.

Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Gradually Jonas learns that power lies in feelings. But when his own power is put to the test—when he must try to save someone he loves—he may not be ready. Is it too soon? Or too late?

The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time. Don't miss the powerful companion novels in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.

A Clockwork Orange: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism

Anthony Burgess

W.W. Norton & Company | Jan 1, 2011

"Set in a dystopian future, this novel examines free will and morality through the life of Alex, a delinquent undergoing controversial psychological conditioning."

A Clockwork Orange: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism

Anthony Burgess

W.W. Norton & Company, 2011

A terrifying tale about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom, A Clockwork Orange became an instant classic when it was published in 1962 and has remained so ever since. Anthony Burgess takes us on a journey to a nightmarish future where sociopathic criminals rule the night. Brilliantly told in harsh invented slang by the novel's main character and merciless droog, fifteen-year-old Alex, this influential novel is now available in a student edition.

The Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange is based on the first British edition and includes Burgess's original final chapter. It is accompanied by Mark Rawlinson's preface, explanatory annotations, and textual notes. A glossary of the Russian-origin terms that inspired Alex's dialect is provided to illustrate the process by which Burgess arrived at the distinctive style of this novel.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" presents a wealth of materials chosen by the editor to enrich the reader's understanding of this unforgettable work, many of them by Burgess himself. Burgess's views on writing A Clockwork Orange, its philosophical issues, and the debates over the British edition versus the American edition and the novel versus the film adaptation are all included. Related writings that speak to some of the novel's central issues-youthful style, behavior modification, and art versus morality-are provided by Paul Rock and Stanley Cohen, B. F. Skinner, John R. Platt, Joost A. M. Meerloo, William Sargent, and George Steiner.

"Criticism" is divided into two sections, one addressing the novel and the other Stanley Kubrick's film version. Five major reviews of the novel are reprinted along with a wide range of scholarly commentary, including, among others, David Lodge on the American reader; Julie Carson on linguistic invention; Zinovy Zinik on Burgess and the Russian language; Geoffrey Sharpless on education, masculinity, and violence; Shirley Chew on circularity; Patrick Parrinder on dystopias; Robbie B. H. Goh on language and social control; and Steven M. Cahn on freedom. A thorough analysis of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange is provided in reviews by Vincent Canby, Pauline Kael, and Christopher Ricks; in Philip Strick and Penelope Houston's interview with Stanley Kubrick; and in interpretive essays by Don Daniels, Alexander Walker, Philip French, Thomas Elsaesser, Tom Dewe Mathews, and Julian Petley.

A Selected Bibliography is also included.

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula K. Le Guin

EOS | Jan 1, 2001

"This novel follows a physicist from an anarchist society as he seeks understanding and connection on a capitalist planet, exploring themes of utopia and freedom."

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula K. Le Guin

EOS, 2001

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Knopf Canada | Mar 19, 2009

"This dystopian novel explores the lives of students at a mysterious boarding school as they discover their true purpose and the meaning of humanity."

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Knopf Canada, 2009

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic from the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun—“a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist. • “Speculative, experimental, and humanly moving. . . . Miraculous” —The New Republic • “A page-turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish.” —TIME

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.

Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.

Legend

Marie Lu

Penguin | Nov 29, 2011

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"In a future United States, a prodigy and a fugitive cross paths in a cat-and-mouse game that reveals disturbing truths about their government."

Legend

Marie Lu

Penguin, 2011

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"Legend doesn't merely survive the hype, it deserves it."

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Young Elites

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.

From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.

Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is sure to move readers as much as it thrills.

Blindness

José Saramago

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Jan 1, 1999

"A sudden epidemic of blindness strikes an unnamed city, leading to societal breakdown and the exploration of innate human instincts."

Blindness

José Saramago

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999

A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

An International Bestseller - "This is a shattering work by a literary master."—Boston Globe

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses—and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit.

"This is a an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century."—Washington Post

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

The Children of Men

P. D. James

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Oct 20, 2010

"Set in a future where humanity faces extinction due to mass infertility, this gripping narrative follows a man who becomes embroiled in a shocking conspiracy."

The Children of Men

P. D. James

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010

A modern science fiction classic from an acclaimed bestselling author: The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.

"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." —Chicago Tribune

Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.

Told with P. D. James’s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future.

The inspiration for director Alfonso Cuarón's modern masterpiece of a film.

Station Eleven: A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)

Emily St. John Mandel

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Sep 9, 2014

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"A hauntingly beautiful post-apocalyptic novel that explores the connections between the people we love and the art we create, as a group of actors journeys through a devastated world."

Station Eleven: A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)

Emily St. John Mandel

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014

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This Anniversary Edition of Station Eleven, a finalist for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of the Twenty-First Century by the New York Times, celebrates ten years of this now iconic novel with a new color illustration and a guide to “The Mandelverse”

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

It is fifteen years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the world's population. Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony, a small troupe moving over the gutted landscape, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. But when they arrive in the outpost of St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the disaster brought everyone here, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty, telling a story about the relationships that sustain us.

General 18 of 18

Title	Author	Publisher	Date
1984	George Orwell	HarperCollins	2013
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	McClelland & Stewart	2011
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	Simon and Schuster	2012
We	Yevgeny Zamyatin	Penguin	1993
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	Scholastic	2011
Divergent	Veronica Roth	HarperCollins Publishers Limited	2024
Brave New World Brave New World Revisited	Aldous Huxley	National Geographic Books	2007
The Road	Cormac McCarthy	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	2007
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick	Random House Publishing Group	2008
Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson	Penguin Books Limited	1994
The Giver	Lois Lowry	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	2014
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	W.W. Norton & Company	2011
The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	EOS	2001
Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	Knopf Canada	2009
Legend	Marie Lu	Penguin	2011
Blindness	José Saramago	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	1999
The Children of Men	P. D. James	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	2010
Station Eleven	Emily St. John Mandel	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	2014

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