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The Handmaid's TaleSeries
series3 books1985
About gender and society and rebellion and revolution.
“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
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The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
About rebellion and revolution, set in far future.
“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
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includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels
DivergentSeries
series10 books2011
About identity.
Start with The Transfer →
Make Room! Make Room!Novel
Harry Harrisonstandalone novel1966
About class conflict and ecological collapse, set in our world.
One Second After / John MathersonSeries
series4 books2009
About war, set in small town.
Start with One Second After →
The Running ManNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1982
Science fiction and dystopia, tense and dark in tone, about survival and totalitarianism, set in near future and north america.