Chaos Reading discussion

177 views
Bookshelf Nominations > Bookshelf Nominations - Dystopian/Utopian

Comments Showing 1-23 of 23 (23 new)    post a comment »
dateUp arrow    newest »

message 1: by Ruby , Mistress of Chaos (new)

Ruby  Tombstone Lives! (rubytombstone) | 3260 comments Mod
Books you'd recommend that are dystopian and/or utopian. With or without an apocalyptic precursor.

My nominations would include:
Little Brother
Feed
The Handmaid's Tale


message 2: by Katje (new)

Katje van Loon (katjevanloon) | 9 comments The Fifth Sacred Thing
Brave New World
V for Vendetta

Then a couple I don't consider completely utopian or dystopian, but definitely post-apocalyptic:

Califia's Daughters
False Dawn

And seconding the vote for The Handmaid's Tale.


message 3: by Sanjeev (last edited May 25, 2012 01:40PM) (new)

Sanjeev (sanjeevr1709) | 5 comments The Stand
Animal Farm
Ender's Game
His Dark Materials good narration of a world controlled by the church in the 21st century


message 4: by Anna (new)


message 5: by Susan (new)

Susan Sherman (suelovesbooks) | 1 comments Feed
Deadline


message 6: by Ruby , Mistress of Chaos (new)

Ruby  Tombstone Lives! (rubytombstone) | 3260 comments Mod
Susan wrote: "Feed
Deadline"


I thought about the Newsflesh books, but I'm not sure if I'd call them dystopian. I don't get the sense that the government is any more controlling in that than in reality now!


message 7: by Ruby , Mistress of Chaos (new)

Ruby  Tombstone Lives! (rubytombstone) | 3260 comments Mod
Jim wrote: "Superstoe
A forgotten classic."


Thanks for that. I had never heard of that one until now.


message 8: by Riona (new)

Riona (rionafaith) | 457 comments Hmmm, let's see if I can come up with any that haven't been listed yet...


The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Giver
Fahrenheit 451
Oryx and Crake
Wool


message 10: by Simon (new)

Simon Fletcher The Gone Away world.
Oryx And Crake.


message 13: by Sophie (new)

Sophie (sophothy) | 3 comments Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
It Can't Happen Here

These are two great dystopian books. The first one is what the movie "Blade Runner" is based on (though I think the book is MUCH better than the movie) and the second one is a political dystopia that is set in the USA. Both excellent and I would highly recommend them!!


message 14: by Mercelle (last edited Jun 01, 2012 07:30PM) (new)

Mercelle | 5 comments The Host was a great book.


message 15: by Valerie (new)

Valerie Zink | 41 comments Mercelle wrote: "The Host was a great book."

It actually was, showing me that Stephanie Meyer has more in her than the whole Twilight thing.


message 16: by Mercelle (new)

Mercelle | 5 comments Yes I was surprised when I like The Host much more than Twilightsaga.


message 18: by Katrina (new)

Katrina | 28 comments We - The very book that influenced Orwell.

Also, Darkness at Noon


message 20: by Ruby , Mistress of Chaos (new)

Ruby  Tombstone Lives! (rubytombstone) | 3260 comments Mod
Matthew wrote: "Blindness
Pontypool Changes Everything"


I love those books, but I wouldn't say those are dystopian. They're post-apocalyptic, but not dystopian.


message 23: by Julia (new)

Julia (Pages for Thoughts) (pagesforthoughts) | 3 comments Gone by Micheal Grant!
Revolution 19 by Gregg Rosenblum!
Flawed by Cecelia Ahern!
SYLO by D.J. Machale!
Shatter Me by Taherah Maffi!
The Rule of Three by Eric Walters!


back to top