Desiring Dystopia...exploring post-apocalyptic literature.

dystopia

-noun

1. a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding


2. an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror

Inspired by Suzanne Collins' novel The Hunger Games, the teens at the Brownell Library have been actively discussing survivial and humanity in post-apocalyptic societies.

If you are desiring dystopia...here are some titles you might want to check out:

Young Adult Titles:

Anderson, M. T. ...Feed

Burgess, Melvin...Bloodsong

Carman, Patrick...Atherton, the House of Power & others

Collins, Suzanne...The Hunger Games & Catching Fire

Devita, James...The Silenced

DuPrau, Jeanne...The City of Ember

Farmer, Nancy...The House of the Scorpion

Goodman, Allegra...The Other Side of the Island

Haddix, Margaret Peterson...Among the Hidden & others in the Shadow Children series

Lowry, Lois...The Giver

Machale, D. J. ...The Merchant of Death

Marsden, John...Tomorrow When the War Began & others in the Tomorrow Series

Moore, Alan...V for Vendetta

Ness, Patrick...The Chaos Walking Series

Nix, Garth...Shade's Children

Rosoff, Meg...How I Live Now

Westerfield, Scott...Uglies

Adult Titles:

Atwood, Margaret...Oryx and Crake: a novel

Atwood, Margaret...The Handmaid's Tale

Bradbury, Ray...The Martian Chronicles

Bradbury, Ray...Fahrenheit 451

Burgess, Anthony...A Clockwork Orange

Gaiman, Neil...Good Omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch

Garland, Alex...The Beach

Golding, William...Lord of the Flies

Huxley, Aldous...Brave New World

James, P. D. ...The Children Men

Koontz, Dean R. ...The Taking

LeGuin, Ursula...The Dispossessed: an ambigous Utopia

McCarthy, Cormac...The Road

Orwell, George...1984: a novel

Vonnegut, Kurt...Galapagos: a novel