Dystopias Dystopias

Utopia: a place or state of things in which everything is perfect.It is undeniable, human beings are industrious, inquisitive and always trying to get things ‘just right’. But so often, even with the best (or possibly the worst) intentions, things go horribly, horribly wrong. While the lucky few may benefit, the rest of us must endure dystopian injustice and inequality.Maybe it’s time to fight back…

Dystopias Uglies

By Scott Westerfeld F WES

Tally is about to turn sixteen and in a few weeks, she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty.

But Tally’s new friend Shay isn’t sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn’t very pretty. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. Tally’s choice will change her world forever.

First book in theUglies series.

Dystopias The hunger games

By Suzanne Collins F COL

In the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed.

When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.

First book in theHunger games series.

Dystopias Legend

By Marie LU F LU

Los Angeles, California, Republic of America.

He is Day, the boy who walks in the light. She is June, the girl who seeks her brother's killer.

On the run and undercover, they meet by chance. Irresistibly drawn together, neither knows the other's past.

But Day murdered June's brother, and she has sworn to avenge his death . . .

First book in theLegend series.

Dystopias Divergent

By Veronica Roth F DIV

For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out, alone, determined to find out where she truly belongs.

Shocked by the brutality of her new life, Tris can trust no one. And yet she is drawn to a boy who seems to both threaten and protect her. The hardest choices may yet lie ahead....

First book in theDivergent series.

Dystopias The maze runner

By James Dashner F DAS

When the doors of the lift open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he's not alone. He's surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade - a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible stone maze.Like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they came to be there - or what's happened to the world outside. All they know is that every morning when the walls slide back, they will risk everything - even the half-machine, half-animal Grievers that patrol its corridors, to try and find out.

First book in theMaze runner series.

Dystopias Matched

By Ally Condie F CON

On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her match. Society dictates he is her perfect partner for life. Except he's not.

In Cassia's society, officials decide who people love, how many children they have, where they work and even when they die.

But, as Cassia finds herself falling in love with another boy, she is determined to make some choices of her own. And that's when her whole world begins to unravel…

First book in theMatched series.

Dystopias The giver

By Lois Lowry F LOW

Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal, if colourless, world of conformity and contentment. He is completely unaware of the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.

But from the moment Jonas is selected as the Receiver of Memory at The Ceremony, his life is never the same. He discovers that The Community is not as perfect as it seems…

First book in theGiver series.

Dystopias Ship breaker

By Paolo Bacigalupi F BAC

In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life....

First book in theShip breaker series.

Dystopias Parched

By Melanie Crowder F PAR

Sarel has just witnessed the violent murder of her parents. But she is not completely alone on the drought-ridden land. Nandi is the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and for skinny Sarel-girl.

Nandi knows they are all in trouble, and she knows, too, that a boy is coming - an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him.

Dystopias Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury F BRA

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

But after he meets Clarisse, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. And when he reads his first book, he realises that he hates destroying the things that now give his life meaning.

Dystopias The declaration

By Gemma Malley F MAL

Anna Covey is a 'Surplus'. She should not have been born. In a society where eternal life has become reality, children are an abomination.

Like all Surpluses, Anna is living in a Surplus Hall and learning how to make amends for the selfish act her parents committed in having her. She is quietly accepting of her fate until, one day, a new inmate arrives. Anna's life is thrown into chaos. But is she brave enough to believe this mysterious boy?

First book in theDeclaration series.

Dystopias Z for Zachariah

By Robert C. O’Brien F OBR

Ann Burden is sixteen years old and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war that has taken everyone from her. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors.

But the smoke from a distant campfire shatters Ann's solitude. Someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want, and can he be trusted?

Dystopias Mortal engines

By Philip Reeve F REE

In a dangerous, post-apocalyptic future, huge motorized cities hunt, attack and fight each other for survival.

As London pursues a small town, young apprentice Tom is flung out into the wastelands, where a terrifying cyborg begins to hunt him down.

First book in theHungry City

chronicles series.

Dystopias How I live now

By Meg Rosoff F ROS

Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met.

There she'll discover what real love is: something violent, mysterious and wonderful. There her world will be turned upside down and a perfect summer will explode into a million bewildering pieces. How will Daisy live then?

Dystopias Juno of Taris

By Fleur Beale F BEA

Juno is young; she has no authority, no power, and to question the ways of Taris is discouraged. The Taris Project was the brainchild of a desperate twenty-first-century world, a community designed to survive even if the rest of humanity perished. An isolated, storm-buffeted island in the Southern Ocean was given a protective dome and its own balmy climate. And now Juno is one of 500 people who live there - but what has happened to the outside world in the years since Taris was established?

First book in theJuno series.

Dystopias Obernewtyn

By Isobelle Carmody F CAR

In a world struggling back from the brink of apocalypse, life is harsh. But for Elspeth Gordie, born with enhanced mental abilities, it is also dangerous. After she is brought to the attention of the totalitarian Council that rules the Land, Elspeth is banished to the remote mountain institution of Obernewtyn, where she must pit herself against those that would resurrect the terrible forces of the apocalypse. Only then will she learn most truly who and what she is ...

First book in theObernewtyn

chronicles series.

Dystopias The adoration of Jenna Fox

By Mary E. Pearson F PEA

When Jenna wakes from a coma after a horrific accident, her recovery is slow and is complicated by questions that do not have simple answers. What are her parents hiding from her? Why does her grandmother, Lily, hate her so?

When the memories do come, they're more than anyone bargained for, and as Jenna struggles to work out who she is, and what exactly makes us who we are, one thing becomes very clear: Jenna Fox is no ordinary teenage girl.

First book in theJenna Fox series.

Dystopias Shatter me

By Tahereh Mafi F MAF

No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans to use her as a weapon.

But Juliette has a different view of her future. After a lifetime without freedom, she's finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time-and to find a future with the one boy she thought she'd lost forever.

First book in theShatter me series.

Dystopias The selection

By Kiera Cass F CAS

17-year-old America Singer has been chosen for The Selection, a reality TV show in which the special few compete for gorgeous Prince Maxon's love. And much to the outrage of the others, the prince takes a special interest in her.

Rivalry within The Selection is fierce and not all the girls are prepared to play by the rules. But what they don't know is that America has a secret -- one which could throw the whole competition and change her life forever.

First book in theSelection series.

Dystopias The running man

By Stephen King F KIN

Ben Richards is a desperate man. With no job, no money, no way out, and a young daughter in need of proper medical attention, he must turn to the only possibility of striking it rich participating in the ultraviolent, government-sanctioned Running Man TV program.

To win, Ben must stay alive for a month, whilst being relentlessly hunted by an elite strike force bent on killing him as quickly as possible in front of an audience all too eager to see that happen.

Dystopias The Chrysalids

By John Wyndham F WYN

Nuclear war has devastated the world, bringing with it a host of genetic mutations. In the primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign of deviation is ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed. David lives in fear of discovery, for he is part of a secret group of children who can communicate with each other by transferring thought-shapes into each other's minds. As they grow older, they feel increasingly isolated. Then one of them marries a 'norm', with terrifying consequences.

Dystopias An ember in the ashes

By Sabaa Tahir F TAH

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. When Laia’s grandparents are brutally murdered and her brother arrested for treason by the empire, the only people she has left to turn to are the rebels.

But in exchange for their help in saving her brother, they demand that Laia spy on the ruthless Commandant of Blackcliff, the Empire’s greatest military academy.

First book in theEmber in the ashes

series.

Dystopias In the dark spaces

By Cally Black F BLA

14-year-old Tamara has been living on a star freighter in deep space, when she is kidnapped by Crowpeople – the only aliens humanity has ever encountered. No-one has ever survived a Crowpeople attack, until now, and Tamara must use everything she has just to stay alive. As Tamara comes to know the Crowpeople's way of life, and the threats they face from humanity's exploration into deep space, she realises she has an impossible choice to make.