Homemama2 Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 If someone liked the following books, what else would you recommend? Thanks! The Giver Brave New World 1984 A Separate Peace Fahrenheit 451 Animal Farm Lord of the Flies (I'm not sure what genre these are... some are dystopian, but not all) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) House of Stairs, Z for Zachariah, The Dispossessed, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, War of the Worlds, Handmaid's Tale Edited August 28, 2019 by Matryoshka 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) similar to The Giver -- dystopia/teen characters - the 3 sequels (Gathering Blue; Messenger, Son) also by Lowry - House of Stairs (Sleator) - The Wave (Strasser) -- based on a true event - The Hunger Games trilogy (Collins) - Uglies series (Westerfeld) - The Maze Runner series (Dashner) - Shadow Children series (Haddix) darker -- along the lines of 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Lord of the Flies - The Book Thief (Zusak) -- hard to classify title, but sort of fits in with all of OP's list - Flowers for Algernon (Keyes) -- short story - Day of the Triffids (Wyndham) - Heart of Darkness (Conrad) -- the film Apocalypse Now was very loosely based on this - Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde) - A Clockwork Orange (Burgess) - Slaughterhouse 5 (Vonnegut) -- another one that's hard to classify, but it is often grouped with dystopias similar to A Separate Peace - Peace Breaks Out (Knowles) -- the sequel - Peace Like a River (Enger) - The Chosen; My Name is Asher Lev (Potok) - A Prayer for Owen Meaney (Irving) - Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) - Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro) -- sort of a cross between A Separate Peace and a dystopia similar to Lord of the Flies -- the shipwreck aspect - Robinson Crusoe (Dafoe) - Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell) - The Cay (Taylor) similar to Lord of the Flies -- the dystopic/devolving society aspect - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey) - The Crucible (Miller) -- play - The Lottery (Jackson) -- short story very slightly similar to Animal Farm - The Metamorphosis (Kafka) -- existential novella of a man who wakes up and finds he is now a giant cockroach - Watership Down (Adams) -- rabbits on a quest to find a new home run into a totalitarian state warren run by a dictator rabbit very slightly similar to Fahrenheit 451 - short stories by Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451) - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke) Edited August 28, 2019 by Lori D. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Station Eleven is my favorite surprisingly uplifting dystopian novel. Two of my teens have read and enjoyed it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 1 hour ago, kokotg said: Station Eleven is my favorite surprisingly uplifting dystopian novel... That was one thing I was going to mention -- it might be good to include some *lighter* or *uplifting* books to help balance out the *dark* and *depressing* mood and ideas in original poster's list, and in my own suggestions above. Teens can easily spiral down a dark hole without something to provide a truthful and inspiring contrast. past threads with ideas:"High school literature suggestions that aren't so dark and depressing""Suggestions for meaty but not depressing classics for teenagers""High literature which is encouraging""s/o Steinbeck thread: I need novels that DON'T have tragic/fatalistic worldview" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homemama2 Posted August 30, 2019 Author Share Posted August 30, 2019 Great suggestions ladies! I also appreciate the "uplifting" ones (because even as I was posting this I was having the same thoughts.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyDay Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Bertie's War On the Beach War of the Worlds Time Machine Andromeda Strain maybe one of the books from Dragon Riders of Pern 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Dark of the West: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Glass-Alliance-Joanna-Hathaway/dp/0765396416/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1CDW370X4CMB&keywords=dark+of+the+west&qid=1567308202&s=gateway&sprefix=dark+of+the+west%2Caps%2C274&sr=8-1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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