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series2 books1951

completed

About books and reading, set in north america and near future.

“Set in a future where books are outlawed and firemen exist to burn them, it follows fireman Guy Montag as doubts about his job push him toward the very literature he's supposed to destroy.”
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A Clockwork OrangeSeries

series4 books1962

completed

Dark in tone, set in near future and our world.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
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The Handmaid's TaleSeries

series3 books1985

Dark in tone, about gender and society, set in north america and near future.

“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

Tense in tone, set in far future and north america.

“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

Nineteen Eighty-FourSeries

series4 books1949

Dystopia.

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The Penultimate TruthNovel

Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1964

Dark in tone, about surveillance, set in far future and underground & caves.

“The people are told that World War III is being fought above them, when in reality the war ended years ago.”
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