Teen Booklist: Dystopias

Considering the huge upswing in teen dystopian fiction over the past few years, I decided to theme my March display around it. I tend to go militant when talking to people who like dystopias. Everybody who likes dark, dreary, futuristic fiction should immediately read the holy trinity: 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. No excuses, no arguments. No claiming to like dystopian fiction for you until you read those three. As for the rest, I fudged the list a little when it comes to series books, and am including the first of the series instead of the newest or whichever volume I had available.

• 1984, by George Orwell
• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
• Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
• Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld
• The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness
• Mortal Engines, by Phillip Reeve
• Incarceron, by Catherine Fisher
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox, by Mary E. Pearson
• Feed, by M.T. Anderson
• The Carbon Diaries 2015, by Saci Lloyd
• The Sky Inside, by Clare B. Dunkle
• Skinned, by Robin Wasserman
• Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
• The Giver, by Lois Lowry
• The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth, by Carrie Ryan
• Girl in the Arena, by Lise Haines
• Batman: Face the Face, by James Dale Robinson, Leonard Kirk, and Don Kramer
• Akira, Vol. 1, by Katsuhiro Otomo
• Inside Out, by Maria V. Snyder
• Pod, by Stephen Wallenfels
• Vulture's Wake, by Kirsty Murray
• Exodus, by Julie Bertagna
• Neptune's Children, by Bonnie Dobkin
• Sharp North, by Patrick Cave
• The Unidentified, by Rae Mariz