The Giver by Lois Lowry Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Maze Runner by James Dashner The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
What is dystopian literature?
The roots of the word dystopia—dys- and -topia—are from the Ancient Greek for “bad” and “place,” and so we use the term to describe an unfavorable society in which to live. “Dystopia” is not a synonym for “post-apocalyptic”; it also is not a synonym for a bleak, or darkly imagined future. In a dystopian story, society itself is typically the antagonist; it is society that is actively working against the protagonist’s aims and desires.
-John Joseph Adams
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