Show notes
Today we're talking all things dystopian books! From The Handmaids Tale to The Hunger Games, Station 11 to Delirium, dystopian books have certainly captured our attention over the years. We're doing a deep dive into dystopian books - where they originated, why they became so popular in YA fiction in the early 2000s, and their lasting legacy.
Books Mentioned:
- We by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- Delirium by Lauren Oliver
- Matched by Ally Condie
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Truesight by David Stahler
- Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Uglies by Scott Westerfield
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