Diving Into Dystopian Reads

Today on the pod, the Nerds are offering up some Dystopian Reads to tickle your fancy. Whether you’re brand new to the genre or you’ve already survived a Hunger Games (or two), there are picks here for everyone!

Titles Mentioned in this Episode:

Joe’s Titles:

• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
• Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
• Want by Cindy Pon
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Jill’s Titles: 

• The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
• Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood

Emma’s Titles:

• The Selection series by Kiera Cass
• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
• Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard
• Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Here are some foundational/classic dystopian titles and twenty-tens heyday titles mentioned, but not discussed in this episode:

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Legend by Marie Lu
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

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