Juvenile and YA Fiction: Dystopia!

No other genre has been influenced by the emergence of YA fiction quite like dystopian literature. In this episode, Megan and Emily join Ian to compare recent dystopian contributions aimed at young adults like Divergent and The Hunger Games to 20th century classics like 1984 and Lord of the Flies.

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Mazerunner by James Dashner

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Divergent by Veronica Roth

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Utopia by Sir Thomas More

Plato’s Republic

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Dune by Frank Herbert

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The Space/Ransom Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

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