Oregon City Adult Dystopian Genre List

Dystopian books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated December 13, 2024
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Chain-gang all-stars
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
Paper Book
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND. 'America's new Hunger Games' Sunday Times 'So good. This one is from the heart' Stephen King 'Brutal, thrilling, devastating and beautiful' The Times
Followers
Angelo, Megan
Paper Book
'An eerie masterpiece' Christina Dalcher 'Think Black Mirror with a comic twist' OK! When everyone is watching you can run, but you can't hide... 2051. Marlow and her mother, Floss, have been handpicked to live their lives on camera, in the closed community of...
The handmaid's tale
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of...
Venomous lumpsucker
Beauman, Ned
Paper Book
*SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR* 'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times 'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily Mail The irresistible new novel by the...
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...
A clockwork orange
Burgess, Anthony
Paper Book
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
The trials of Koli
Carey, M. R.
Paper Book
'ENTHRALLING . . . A JOURNEY AS PERILOUS AS IT IS ENLIGHTENING' Guardian on The Book of Koli The journey through M. R. Carey's 'immersive, impeccably rendered world' (Kirkus) continues in The Trials of Koli - the second book of the Rampart...
A prayer for the crown-shy
Chambers, Becky
Audiobook
The school for good mothers : a novel
Chan, Jessamine
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER READING PICK A BETWEEN THE COVERS NOVEMBER 2022 PICK 'Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere' ELLE 'Destined to be a feminist classic - kept me up at...
The Hunger Games
Collins, Suzanne.
Paper Book
First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy, this new foiled edition of THE HUNGER GAMES is available for a limited period of time. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called...
The ferryman : a novel
Cronin, Justin
Paper Book
Vox
Dalcher, Christina
Paper Book
'This book will blow your mind' PRIMA 'Disturbing' LEE CHILD 'A petrifying reimagining of The Handmaid's Tale' ELLE 'Left me speechless' DAILY MAIL 'Terrifying' RED 'A novel ripe for the #MeToo era' VANITY FAIR 'Extraordinary' LOUISE O'NEILL 'The...
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Dick, Philip K.
Paper Book
World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world...
The man in the high castle
Dick, Philip K.
Paper Book
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been- the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the United States divided between the Japanese and...
The Every, or at last a sense of order, or the final days of free will, or limitless choice is killing the world
Eggers, Dave
Paper Book
The electrifying follow-up to Dave Eggers' New York Times Bestseller The Circle 'Gulpable fictive entertainment . . . Eggers is a wonderful storyteller with an alert and defiant vision' Observer When the world's largest search engine / social...
Future home of the living god : a novel
Erdrich, Louise
Paper Book
'Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers' Guardian Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life...
Out there : stories
Folk, Kate
Paper Book
Lord of the flies
Golding, William
Paper Book
A story for adults about small boys, marooned on a coral island. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death.
The dog stars
Heller, Peter
Paper Book
Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for: his dog, his neighbour and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his plane for short journeys. But, one day, he takes his plane over the horizon, knowing that he won't have enough...
Wool
Howey, Hugh.
Paper Book
NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF AppleTV+, SILO. An epic story of survival at all odds and one of the most anticipated books of the year, soon to also be a major Apple TV series. 'Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ... one of dystopian...
Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous
Paper Book
Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. INTRODUCED BY MARGARET ATWOOD Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to...
Never let me go
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
A story of love, friendship and memory.
The children of men
James, P. D.
Paper Book
The Children of Men is P.D. James's stand-alone dystopian novel of mass infertility and chilling mystery.
The wolves of winter : a novel
Johnson, Tyrell
Paper Book
'A cracking futuristic adventure, told with pace and panache and packed with vivid, shiver-inducing description' Daily Mail 'Read this in one sitting. DEEPLY satisfying.' Lucy Mangan Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn't help...
Sleeping beauties : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to...
The stand : the complete & uncut edition
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. 'THE STAND is a masterpiece' (Guardian). Set in a virus-decimated...
Prophet song
Lynch, Paul
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK...
Blue Ticket: A Novel
Mackintosh, Sophie
Paper Book
Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And, once you've taken your...
The road
McCarthy, Cormac
Paper Book
With an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and cruel, lawless...
1984
Orwell, George
Paper Book
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens...
Animal farm : a fairy story
Orwell, George
Paper Book
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control...
Arch-conspirator
Roth, Veronica
Paper Book
A razor-sharp and beautifully heart-rending reimagining of a classic from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth. Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the genes of the fallen, humanity will end.<...
Divergent
Roth, Veronica
Paper Book
She turns to the future in a world that's falling apart. The No. 1 New York Times bestseller DIVERGENT - also a major motion picture. For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris...
Blindness
Saramago, José.
Ebook
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to...
Here goes nothing : a novel
Toltz, Steve
Paper Book
Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
Vonnegut, Kurt.
Paper Book
Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. 'An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times Book Review Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's...
The dreamers : a novel
Walker, Karen Thompson
Paper Book
'The Dreamers is harrowing, riveting, profoundly moving, and beautifully written. In a word, this book is stunning' Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven *The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of The Age of...
Uglies
Westerfeld, Scott.
Paper Book
The first book in Scott Westerfeld's international bestselling Uglies series - over six million copies of the series have been sold worldwide! In Tally Youngblood's world, looks matter. At sixteen everyone undergoes a transformation from "Ugly" to "Pretty" and...
The feed : a novel
Windo, Nick Clark
Paper Book
The day of the triffids
Wyndham, John
Paper Book
When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the...
The day the sun died : a novel
Yan, Lianke
Paper Book
The reality of life in China today contrasts with the sunny optimism of the 'Chinese dream' in this gripping, gruesome dystopia from 'one of the masters of modern Chinese literature' (Jung Chang) One dusk in early June, in a town deep in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old...
Thrust
Yuknavitch, Lidia
Paper Book
From the visionary author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Joan comes an epic novel tracing the construction of a colossal statue - and the lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake.

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