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    Hello everyone! I am compiling a list of dystopias that I want to read. I’m happy to consider any but I am mainly aiming for books very influential to the genre or that gained a lot of popularity. I am planning to read them in order of publication to see how things change. I’m especially interested in comparing them to the YA dystopia boom in the 2010s. My husband pointed out an interesting on how the current popular dystopia novels became more about teenage rebellion and resistance instead of futility and hopelessness of adults. Also how people really missed a lot of points Hunger Games made and how Hollywood/capitalism really twisted it and that era into shallow mass marketed cheap knock offs more about romance than actual resistance.

    Anyways, this is the list I have so far. Happy for any suggestions.

    Dystopian Book List

    • Utopia by Thomas More (1516)
    • Erewhon by Samuel Butler (1872)
    • The Time Machine by HG Wells (1895)
    • The Machine Stops by EM Forster (1909)
    • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
    • Animal Farm by Orwell (1945)
    • 1984 by Orwell (1949)
    • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
    • A Clockwork Orange by Burgess (1962)
    • The Handmaids Tale by Atwood (1985)
    • Parable of the Sower (1993)
    • I Who Have Never Known Men by Hartman (1995)
    • The Road by McCarthy (2006)
    • The Power by Alderman (2016)
    • Tender Is the Flesh (2017)
    • The Giver by Lowry (1993)
    • Unwind by Neal Shusterman (2007)
      -The Hunger Games by Collins (2008)
    • The Maze Runner by Dashner (2009)
    • Divergent by Roth (2011)

    by AXS_Writing

    10 Comments

    1. Lunatika_Lovegood on

      The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
      This was one of my favorite books growing up and it is still one I recommend frequently.

    2. venerosvandenis on

      Blindness by Saramago

      The MaddAddam series by Atwood

      We by Zamyatin

      The Day of the Triffids by Wyndham

      The Perfect Day by Levin

      The Grace Year by Liggett

      some of them i actually hated but i wont say which ones lol.

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