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What Book Started You Reading Dystopian Fiction?
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Feb 19, 2013 07:02PM
"1984" or "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip Jose Farmer. (I think that's considered Dystopian.) Not sure which I read first.
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Felicity wrote: I need something similar fast!"Try the Matched series by Ally Condie
Matched to me was a little slow, the second book was MUCH better, here are my suggestions as I LOVED Birthmarked (it was my 2nd dystopian book and I stumbled on it) and LOVED the Hunger Games. Have you read the rest of the Birthmarked series and the short stories? I havent read the last one but look forward to it and Prized was awesome.
The Maze Runner Series, very fast paced, read the prequel last
The Forest of Hands and Teeth, it has zombies in it but they are not the main focus and I originally did not read zombie series but this series had me hooked.
Blood Red Road series, fast paced, along the lines of Hunger Games with a strong female lead. I havent read the second book yet.
The Rot and Ruin series, zombies do play a large part but great books, the first is the slowest but I cried in all the ones I have read.
Arena 1 and Arena 2, there are a lot of typing errors but if you can get over it great book!
The knife of Never Letting Go....it is different but I really enjoyed the story but hated how the series ended.
Zombie Island......some typos but it is free and from an Indie author
Divergent series
Partials Series
Ashes Series
I started The Drowned Cities, it was a free preview and I REALLY want to finish it.
Hope this long list helps, but I love Dystopian books and have really enjoyed all the ones I posted!
Divergent and InsurgentUglies/Pretties
Maze Runner
Life as We Knew It trilogy
For me, it was definitely Logan's Run that got me started, 1984 that inspired me, the Canticle for Leibowitz that made me want to continue and Fahrenheit 451 that made me want to believe :)
I honestly don't remember what my first dystopian book was, since I know I read, and enjoyed a few in school(Lord of the Flies, 1984, etc.) My favorite, and the one that stuck with me the most has to be the Transmetropolitan series. I am a comic nerd, and the combination of Ennis' tone, the dystopian setting, and the ideas underlying it just meshed seamlessly to me.
Home of the Brave, A Canticle for Leibowitz, On The Beach, Childhood's End and Alas Babylon were my early intros, and I revisit them often. I have at least three copies of Alas Babylon.
Ugh. I mean Brave New World. It's late and I've been staring at a blank Word document too long.
My first that I can recall is The Road but what really got me into it is the same as many people in here, The Hunger Games.
For me it was The Hunger Games. I don't remember how I came across it, but it was a little over a year ago and I remember reading it all in like a day then quickly devouring the next two. I was completly mesmerized by this series. I was a bit obsessed, lol. Anyway afterwards I quickly looked for more like it and discovered Delirium & Divergent which both blew my mind too, so Dystopian quickly climbed to the top of my favorite genre's list. Recently I just read The Selection(finished today) that books really good too. I'm reading The Host right now and is starting off good. Dystopian is filled with lots of great books! How could I not love!
I was either A Clockwork Orange or Cat's Cradle for me. It's hard to remember back that far!
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Thanks to these books, I started reading Dystopian Fiction and now I'm completely in love and obsessed with these novels. :)
Deep Winter from Tom Sherry was my full dystopian-esque book. I found it by reading a bunch of short stories on some forum or another, not many of them being all that great.Patriots wasnt the first for me, which Im glad of because I am maybe the one person in the world that didnt like that book.
1984 , Brave New World, and there was this great show called The Prisoner.
1984, way back when it was still in the future. Even now, still hugely influential. It's spawned a number of tropes in current culture -- Big Brother and Room 101 to name but two. And "newspeak" never really goes away...THG reawakened the genre for me, as for a lot of people.
contrary to starting off with a popular dystopian novel, I started my addiction with Lowry's The Giver :)) hehethen devoured dystopias from then on!
Hunger Games!!! Was gonna wait to read the books until I finished a series, but my family went to the movies, I fell in love, read the books within days, and now love dystopian!!! Divergent was the other series that further enhanced my love of dystopians.
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. Read it in high school and I'm hooked.
I read Alas Babylon and fancied another book like it.
The uglies trilogy by Scott westerfield that book was absolutely amazing
I never liked reading until I read the hunger games, and it turned out I really love distopian books.
The Giver by Lois Lowry started me off but I think the Uglies by Scott Westerfeld really made me start reading
THE HUNGER GAMES. otherwise I would never lay a breath on dystopians.
Mountain Man, followed by Safari, I was hooked!
The Hunger Games was my first, but the next year i read Divergent and was officially HOOKED on dystopian ya.
For me it was The Stand, by Stephen King and Swan Song by Robert McCammon.
1984, which I read in 10th grade. Since then I have read many more dystopian books!
The Hunger Games was my first dystopian book but I never recognised it as Dystopian...I didn't even know what it was back thenTruly though, it would be The Knife of Never Letting Go as we studied it in school and the Dystopian genre.
Z for Zacariah, a kids book I read when about 10.
The Hunger Games of course! But I have always liked survival type stories! For instance love The Walking Dead and Fallen Skies, etc..
The Hunger Games, and then Divergent took the torch and carried it to make me read over 80 books - twitch -
The book that started it all for me was this one..
I have a paperback version, a hardback version, and now have it on my Kindle Fire :)
I read 1984 and a few others way back in High School - then discovered The Stand, which I've read several times. That has to be the one that hooked me! The Handmaidens Tale is another that I loved. Lately, I've enjoyed many - The Hunger Games, Wool, Divergent, Matched, Gone...I keep looking for more and am trying some authors I've found on here.
I read THE STAND by the great master Stephen King when it first came out (yes I am THAT old) and SWAN SONG by Robert McCammon. I really never considered them dystopian fiction but more post apocalyptic fantasy. But whatever. Those two are still among my top favorite reads of all time and have read them many times and still have the hard copies of them and the later released longer version of THE STAND. For current dystopian fiction as I would define it I give it to THE HUNGER GAMES getting me started.
The Stand by Stephen King was my first introduction to dystopian. What sealed the deal was Hunger Games.
Dnicole wrote: "I read THE STAND by the great master Stephen King when it first came out (yes I am THAT old) and SWAN SONG by Robert McCammon. I really never considered them dystopian fiction but more post apocaly..."I'm THAT old too LOL - 1984 seemed SO far away when I read it.
I was first introduced to the genre in junior high I think. We read a couple of books in the genre such as The Giver and The Last Book in the Universe. Lord of the Flies and other books such as The Wave may have also helped nurture my love for the genre. Of course these books were also introduced in school.
The man in the castle- P. Dick
The Hunger Games Trilogy. Got me hooked on the dystopian genre. :)
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