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Dystopian Fiction
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding’s first novel. Although it was not a great success at the time—selling fewer than 3,000 copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print—it soon went on to become a best-seller, and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools and colleges.[citation needed] It has been adapted to film twice in English, in 1963 by Peter Brook and 1990 by Harry Hook, and once in Filipino (1976).
Call Number: F GOL
ISBN: 0571084834
Publication Date: 1956
The Darkest minds by Alexander Bracken
When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that's killed most of America's children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control. Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones. When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she's on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her-East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can't risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents. When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.
Call Number: F BRA
ISBN: 9781423159322
Publication Date: 2014
The list by Patricia Forde
Winner of the White Raven Award
The city of Ark is the last safe place on Earth. To make sure humans are able to survive, everyone in Ark must speak List, a language of only 500 words. Everyone that is, except Letta. As apprentice to the Wordsmith, Letta can read all the words that have ever existed. Forbidden words like freedom, music, and even pineapple tell her about a world she's never known. One day her master disappears and the leaders of Ark tell Letta she is the new Wordsmith and must shorten List to fewer and fewer words. Then Letta meets a teenage boy who somehow knows all the words that have been banned. Letta's faced with a dangerous choice: sit idly by and watch language slowly slip away or follow a stranger on a path to freedom . . . or banishment.
Call Number: F FOR
ISBN: 9781925584738
Publication Date: 2018
Starters by Lissa Price
To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
Call Number: F PRI
ISBN: 9780385742481
Publication Date: 2013-07-23
Dystopian Fiction
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell; Erich Fromm (Afterword by)
Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.
Call Number: F ORW
ISBN: 0451524934
Publication Date: 1950-07-01
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is his masterpiece. From the author of The Doors of Perception, Island, and countless other works of fiction, non-fiction, philosophy, and poetry, comes this powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations. Brave New World remains absolutely relevant to this day as both a cautionary dystopian tale in the vein of the George Orwell classic 1984, and as thought-provoking, thoroughly satisfying entertainment.
Call Number: F HUX
ISBN: 0060850523
Publication Date: 1932
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe -- a role that neither wants. These teens must master the art of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.
Call Number: F SHU
ISBN: 9781406379242
Publication Date: 2018
I am traitor by Sif Sigmarsdottir
London has been targeted by extra-terrestrial life. Large pipes fall from the sky, sucking teenagers up into a world that is entirely unimaginable. Amy Sullivan surrenders in a quest to save the teenage population. But nobody can prepare her for what's on the other side of the pipes; a grim and gruelling dystopian world run by a specialised government. In order to save the human race, she must literally fight the other species
Call Number: F SIG
ISBN: 9781444934472
Publication Date: 2017
Our missing hearts by Celeste Ng
This is a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear.
Call Number: F NG
ISBN: 9781408716922
Publication Date: 2022
Dystopian Fiction
Wool by Hugh Howey
In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you must follow the rules. But some don't. These are the dangerous ones; these are the people who dare to hope and dream, and who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple and deadly. They are allowed outside. Jules is one of these people. She may well be the last.
Call Number: F HOW
ISBN: 9781780891248
Publication Date: 2013
Taronga by Victor Kelleher
A compelling novel of a future after a nuclear holocaust. It centres on Taronga Zoo and Ben, who can communicate telepathically with animals and his Aboriginal friend Ellie, struggle against violent odds to save themselves and the ecological balance of Australia.
Call Number: STF F KEL
ISBN: 0140326316
Publication Date: 1988
Eve of man by Giovanna & Tom Fletcher
They had predicted the end of the world would be epic - a nuclear war, a plague, an asteroid. But it came with a whisper, not a bang. For over fifty years, no girls have been born - only boys. The youngest and last generation of women alive are now in their fifties. Not only are their looks fading, but these greying women are humanity's only hope for survival. Until there is sudden hope: a girl is born. And in that moment, she instantly becomes the most important person in history. She is their saviour. Her name is Eve.
Call Number: F FLE
ISBN: 9780718184131
Publication Date: 2018
Icons by Margaret Stohl
When the Icons landed everything changed. The called it The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting. Since then Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside, far away from the nearest Icon and its terrifying power. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid. Dol is different. She survived. Why?
Call Number: F STO
ISBN: 9780007520831
Publication Date: 2013
The list by
Winner of the White Raven Award
The city of Ark is the last safe place on Earth. To make sure humans are able to survive, everyone in Ark must speak List, a language of only 500 words. Everyone that is, except Letta. As apprentice to the Wordsmith, Letta can read all the words that have ever existed. Forbidden words like freedom, music, and even pineapple tell her about a world she's never known. One day her master disappears and the leaders of Ark tell Letta she is the new Wordsmith and must shorten List to fewer and fewer words. Then Letta meets a teenage boy who somehow knows all the words that have been banned. Letta's faced with a dangerous choice: sit idly by and watch language slowly slip away or follow a stranger on a path to freedom . . . or banishment.
Starters by
To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
Scythe by
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe -- a role that neither wants. These teens must master the art of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.
I am traitor by
London has been targeted by extra-terrestrial life. Large pipes fall from the sky, sucking teenagers up into a world that is entirely unimaginable. Amy Sullivan surrenders in a quest to save the teenage population. But nobody can prepare her for what's on the other side of the pipes; a grim and gruelling dystopian world run by a specialised government. In order to save the human race, she must literally fight the other species
Our missing hearts by
This is a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear.
Wool by
In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you must follow the rules. But some don't. These are the dangerous ones; these are the people who dare to hope and dream, and who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple and deadly. They are allowed outside. Jules is one of these people. She may well be the last.
Taronga by
A compelling novel of a future after a nuclear holocaust. It centres on Taronga Zoo and Ben, who can communicate telepathically with animals and his Aboriginal friend Ellie, struggle against violent odds to save themselves and the ecological balance of Australia.
Eve of man by
They had predicted the end of the world would be epic - a nuclear war, a plague, an asteroid. But it came with a whisper, not a bang. For over fifty years, no girls have been born - only boys. The youngest and last generation of women alive are now in their fifties. Not only are their looks fading, but these greying women are humanity's only hope for survival. Until there is sudden hope: a girl is born. And in that moment, she instantly becomes the most important person in history. She is their saviour. Her name is Eve.
Icons by
When the Icons landed everything changed. The called it The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting. Since then Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside, far away from the nearest Icon and its terrifying power. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid. Dol is different. She survived. Why?
