Dystopian Reads for Teens

Updated June 20, 2023
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Life as we knew it
Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Ebook
New York Times bestseller! A heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller that's "absorbing from first to last page."* When a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth, Miranda, a high school sophomore, takes shelter with her family. Told in a year's worth of journal entries, Life as We...

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To paradise
Yanagihara, Hanya
Paper Book
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND SELECTED AS ONE OF THE OPRAH DAILY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022'After the painfully affecting [A Little Life] To Paradise gives us three stories far apart in space and time but each unique in their power to summon the joy and complexity of love, the pain of loss. I...
Moon of the crusted snow : a novel
Rice, Waubgeshig
Ebook
Noughts + crosses
Blackman, Malorie
Paper Book
Now a major TV series on the BBC 'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be' STORMZY 'Malorie's Noughts & Crosses series is the first time I saw myself...

"Not suitable for younger readers"--Page [4] of cover

Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray
Paper Book
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal...
The grace year
Liggett, Kim
Paper Book
'An incredibly important and empowering read' Natasha Ngan, author of Girls of Paper and Fire A New York Times bestselling dark speculative feminist thriller, perfect for fans of The Power and The Handmaid's Tale. ___________________...

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