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jehane · 09-30-2013, 04:26 PM

Thanks for this thread, I am just looking into dystopia having not read much since my teens (reflected in my recs). It's a little disappointing that it seems modern dystopia is fixated on the paranormal though.

Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O'Brien
- immediate post-nuclear apocalypse, YA

Children of the Dust, Louise Lawrence
- quite similar to Z for Zachariah in premise

Obernewtyn, Isobelle Carmody
- decades or longer post-nuclear, YA,
- longer series is unfinished after 20 years but first book can be read as stand-alone

Timescape, Gregory Benford
- hard SF, near future (well, it's now the past...) of environmental collapse

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- I actually haven't read it, though it's been on my TBR list forever. But I thought this list was incomplete without it.

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- post-war, YA
- I read these as an adult, and mainly because I was on holiday and swapped books with my sister, but I was pleasantly surprised. I thought the movie did a good job as well.

09-30-2013, 04:26 PM	#56
jehane Book addict Posts: 441 Karma: 2650464 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Antarctica/Australia/Ohio Device: Sony PRS-300/T1/Asus TF101	Thanks for this thread, I am just looking into dystopia having not read much since my teens (reflected in my recs). It's a little disappointing that it seems modern dystopia is fixated on the paranormal though. Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O'Brien - immediate post-nuclear apocalypse, YA Children of the Dust, Louise Lawrence - quite similar to Z for Zachariah in premise Obernewtyn, Isobelle Carmody - decades or longer post-nuclear, YA, - longer series is unfinished after 20 years but first book can be read as stand-alone Timescape, Gregory Benford - hard SF, near future (well, it's now the past...) of environmental collapse Brave New World, Aldous Huxley - I actually haven't read it, though it's been on my TBR list forever. But I thought this list was incomplete without it. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins - post-war, YA - I read these as an adult, and mainly because I was on holiday and swapped books with my sister, but I was pleasantly surprised. I thought the movie did a good job as well.