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Dystopian fiction
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
Warm bodies by Isaac Marion
R is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows, warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape.
Call Number: F MAR
ISBN: 9780099583820
Publication Date: 2013
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
In our brave new future, DNA engineering has resulted in a terrible genetic flaw. Women die at the age of 20, men at 25. Young girls are being abducted and forced to breed in a desperate attempt to keep humanity ahead of the disease that threatens to eradicate it.
Call Number: F DES
ISBN: 9780007386987
Publication Date: 2011
Dystopian fiction
Whisper by Lynette Noni
For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hours and sixteen minutes, Subject Six-Eight-Four, 'Jane Doe', has been locked away and experimented on, without uttering a single word. Life at Lengard follows a strict, torturous routine that has never changed. Until now. When Jane is assigned a new - and unexpectedly kind - evaluator, her resolve begins to crack, despite her best efforts. As she uncovers the truth about Lengard's mysterious 'program', Jane discovers that her own secret is at the heart of a sinister plot. And one wrong move, one wrong word, could change the world.
Call Number: F NON
ISBN: 9781925700992
Publication Date: 2018
Dry by Neal Shusterman
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, a group of teens is forced to make life and death decisions in this harrowing story of survival. The drought -- nor the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it -- has been going on for a while now. Everyone's lives have become an endless list of don'ts: don't water the lawn, don't take long showers, don't panic. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbours and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don't return, she and her younger brother must team up with an unlikely group in search of water. Each of them will need to make impossible choices to survive.
Call Number: F SHU
ISBN: 9781406386851
Publication Date: 2018
The Ones we're meant to find by Joan He
Cee woke up on the shores of an abandoned island three years ago with no idea how she got there. Now eighteen, she lives in a shack with an ageing android, and a single memory - she has a sister, and she has to escape to find her. From the safety of the eco-city floating above Earth, now decimated by natural disasters, sixteen-year-old Kasey mourns Cee whom she's sure is dead. She too wants to escape - the eco-city is meant to be a sanctuary for people who want to save the planet, but its inhabitants are willing to do anything for refuge, even lie. Is Kasey ready to use technology to help Earth, even though it failed her sister? Cee and Kasey think that what they know about each other and their world is true.
Call Number: F HE
ISBN: 9781911231332
Publication Date: 2021
Dystopian fiction
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
In this postapocalyptic novel, 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. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what awaits them there. They have little: 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. This book boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son are sustained by love. It portrays 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.
Call Number: F MCC
ISBN: 9780330513005
Publication Date: 2006
Hawk by James Patterson
Maximum Ride lost her fight to save the world. But from the ashes of the old world, a phoenix has risen...She calls herself Hawk.
Call Number: F PAT
ISBN: 9781529120011
Publication Date: 2020
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?
Warm bodies by
R is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows, warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape.
Wither by
In our brave new future, DNA engineering has resulted in a terrible genetic flaw. Women die at the age of 20, men at 25. Young girls are being abducted and forced to breed in a desperate attempt to keep humanity ahead of the disease that threatens to eradicate it.
Whisper by
For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hours and sixteen minutes, Subject Six-Eight-Four, 'Jane Doe', has been locked away and experimented on, without uttering a single word. Life at Lengard follows a strict, torturous routine that has never changed. Until now. When Jane is assigned a new - and unexpectedly kind - evaluator, her resolve begins to crack, despite her best efforts. As she uncovers the truth about Lengard's mysterious 'program', Jane discovers that her own secret is at the heart of a sinister plot. And one wrong move, one wrong word, could change the world.
Dry by
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, a group of teens is forced to make life and death decisions in this harrowing story of survival. The drought -- nor the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it -- has been going on for a while now. Everyone's lives have become an endless list of don'ts: don't water the lawn, don't take long showers, don't panic. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbours and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don't return, she and her younger brother must team up with an unlikely group in search of water. Each of them will need to make impossible choices to survive.
The Ones we're meant to find by
Cee woke up on the shores of an abandoned island three years ago with no idea how she got there. Now eighteen, she lives in a shack with an ageing android, and a single memory - she has a sister, and she has to escape to find her. From the safety of the eco-city floating above Earth, now decimated by natural disasters, sixteen-year-old Kasey mourns Cee whom she's sure is dead. She too wants to escape - the eco-city is meant to be a sanctuary for people who want to save the planet, but its inhabitants are willing to do anything for refuge, even lie. Is Kasey ready to use technology to help Earth, even though it failed her sister? Cee and Kasey think that what they know about each other and their world is true.
The Road by
In this postapocalyptic novel, 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. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what awaits them there. They have little: 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. This book boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son are sustained by love. It portrays 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.
Hawk by
Maximum Ride lost her fight to save the world. But from the ashes of the old world, a phoenix has risen...She calls herself Hawk.
