Dystopian fiction

MADE INTO FILMS

Lois Lowry

The Giver

1 The Giver (1993)

2 Gathering Blue (2000)

3 Messenger (2004)

4 Son (2012)

John Marsden

Tomorrow  

A Tomorrow, When the War Began

1 Tomorrow, When the War Began (1993)  

2 The Dead of the Night (1994)

3 The Third Day, the Frost (1995) also appeared as:

Variant: A Killing Frost (1996)

4 Darkness, Be My Friend (1996)

5 Burning for Revenge (1997)

6 The Night Is for Hunting (1998)

7 The Other Side of Dawn (1999)

B Ellie Chronicles

1 While I Live (2003)

2 Incurable (2005)

3 Circle of Flight (2006)

Jeanne DuPrau

Books of Ember

1 The City of Ember (2003) also appeared as:

2 The People of Sparks (2004)

3 The Prophet of Yonwood (2006)

4 The Diamond of Darkhold (2008)

Never Let Me Go  (2005) Kazuo Ishiguro 

Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games

1 The Hunger Games (2008)  

2 Catching Fire (2009)  

3 Mockingjay (2010)

Patrick Ness

Chaos Walking

1 The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008)

2 The Ask and the Answer (2009)

3 Monsters of Men (2010)

James Dashner

Maze Runner

1 The Maze Runner (2009) 

2 The Scorch Trials (2010) 

3 The Death Cure (2011) 

4 The Kill Order (2012) 

5 The Fever Code (2016

Ready Player One (2011) Ernest Cline

Veronica Roth

Divergent Trilogy

1 Divergent (2011)  

2 Insurgent (2012)  

3 Allegiant (2013)   

Divergent Universe

The Transfer (2013) [SF]

Four: A Divergent Collection (2014) [C

The Son (2014) [SF]  

Alexandra Bracken

The Darkest Minds

1 The Darkest Minds (2012)

1.5 In Time (2015) [SF]

2 Never Fade (2013)

2.5 Sparks Rise (2015) [SF]

3 In the Afterlight (2014)

3.5 Beyond the Night (2015) [SF]

Through the Dark (2015) [C]

Rick Yancey

The 5th Wave

1 The 5th Wave (2013)

2 The Infinite Sea (2014)

3 The Last Star (2016)

COULD BE MADE INTO A FILM

The Girl Who Owned a City (1975) O.T. Nelson

Neal Shusterman

Unwind Dystology

1 Unwind (2007

2 UnWholly (2012) 

3 UnSouled (2013)

4 UnDivided (2014)

Emmy Laybourne

Monument 14

0.5 Dress Your Marines in White (2012) [SF]

1 Monument 14 (2012)

1.5 Jake and the Other Girl (2013) [SF]

2 Sky on Fire (2013)

3 Savage Drift (2014)

What Mario Scietto Says (2014) [SF]

Books I started Reading….

Alexander Gordon Smith

Escape from Furnace

1 Lockdown (2009)

2 Solitary (2009)

3 Death Sentence (2009)

4 Fugitives (2010)

5 Execution (2011)

The Night Children (2011) [SF]

Paolo Bacigalupi

Ship Breaker

1 Ship Breaker (2010) 

2 The Drowned Cities (2012) 

3 Tool of War (2017)

Lissa Price

Callie (Lissa Price)

1 Starters (2012) also appeared as:

2 Enders (2013)

Portrait of a Spore (2013) [SF]

Portrait of a Donor: A Starters Story (2014)

Elsie Chapman

Dualed

1 Dualed (2013) 

2 Divided (2014)

Some Popular Authors

After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012) Ellen Datlow

ix • Introduction (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia) • essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow

1 • The Segment • short story by Genevieve Valentine

19 • After the Cure • novelette by Carrie Ryan

45 • Valedictorian • short story by N. K. Jemisin

65 • Visiting Nelson • novelette by Katherine Langrish

89 • All I Know of Freedom • short story by Carol Emshwiller

109 • The Other Elder • juvenile • [Across the Universe] • short story by Beth Revis

129 • The Great Game at the End of the World • novelette by Matthew Kressel

153 • Reunion • short story by Susan Beth Pfeffer

167 • Blood Drive • short story by Jeffrey Ford

181 • Reality Girl • novelette by Richard Bowes

207 • How Th'irth Wint Rong by Hapless Joey @ homeskool.gov • short story by Gregory Maguire

215 • Rust with Wings • [7th Sigma • 0.5] • short story by Steven Gould

233 • Faint Heart • novelette by Sarah Rees Brennan

263 • The Easthound • (2012) • short story by Nalo Hopkinson

281 • Gray • poem by Jane Yolen

283 • Before • short story by Carolyn Dunn

295 • Fake Plastic Trees • novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan

319 • You Won't Feel a Thing • [Shade's Children milieu] • short story by Garth Nix

335 • The Marker • short story by Cecil Castellucci

355 • Afterword (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia) • essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Shadow Children

1 Among the Hidden (1998)  

2 Among the Impostors (2001)  

3 Among the Betrayed (2002)  

4 Among the Barons (2003)  

5 Among the Brave (2004)  

6 Among the Enemy (2005)  

7 Among the Free (2006)

Garth Nix

Shade's Children milieu

Shade's Children (1997)

You Won't Feel a Thing (2012) [SF]

Scott Westerfeld

Uglies

1 Uglies (2005)  

2 Pretties (2005)  

3 Specials (2006)  

4 Extras (2007)  

Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies (2008) [NF]

Uglies: Shay's Story (2012) [SF] with Devin Grayson

Diana Peterfreund

Stars (Diana Peterfreund)

1 For Darkness Shows the Stars (2012)

2 Across a Star-Swept Sea (2013)

Feed (2002) M.T. Anderson

Nancy Farmer

The House of the Scorpion

1 The House of the Scorpion (2002) also appeared as:

2 The Lord of Opium (2013)

Carrie Ryan

Forest of Hands and Teeth

1 The Forest of Hands and Teeth (2009)

2 The Dead-Tossed Waves (2010)

3 The Dark and Hollow Places (2011)

Hare Moon (2010) [SF]

Bougainvillea (2010) [SF]

Flotsam & Jetsam (2010) [SF]

Scenic Route (2011) [SF]

The Dead and Empty World (2013) [C]

Beth Revis

Across the Universe

1 Across the Universe (2011)

2 A Million Suns (2012)

3 Shades of Earth (2013)

A Million Suns (excerpt) (2011) [SF]

The Other Elder (2012) [SF]

Love Is a Choice (2013) [SF]

Rot & Ruin

0.25 Jack and Jill (2012) [SF]

0.5 First Night Memories (2012) [SF]

1 Rot & Ruin (2010)

1.5 In the Land of the Dead (2011) [SF]

2 Dust & Decay (2011)

2.5 Dead & Gone (2012) [SF]

3 Flesh & Bone (2012)

3.5 Tooth & Nail (2013) [SF]

4 Fire & Ash (2013)

5 Bits & Pieces (2015) [C]

Family Business (2010) [SF]

In the Land of the Dead (excerpt) (2011) [SF]

Flesh & Bone (excerpt) (2012) [SF]

Overdue Books (2013) [SF]

A Christmas Feast (2014) [SF]

Sunset Hollow (2014) [SF]

Warrior Smart (2015) [SF]

From Nix's Journal (2015) [SF]

Hero Town (2015) [SF]

Rags and Bones (2015) [SF]

The Valley of the Shadow (2015) [SF]

Warrior Smart (excerpt) (2015) [SF]

Sisters (2016) [SF]

Patrick Carman

Pulse (Patrick Carman)

1 Pulse (2013)

2 Tremor (2014)

3 Quake (2015)

TO BE READ LIST

River Rats (1992) Caroline Stevermer

Conor Kostick

Avatar Chronicles

1 Epic (2004)

2 Saga (2006)

3 Edda (2011)

Catherine Fisher

Incarceron

1 Incarceron (2007)

2 Sapphique (2008)

Gemma Malley

The Declaration

1 The Declaration (2007) 

2 The Resistance (2008)

3 The Returners (2010)

4 The Legacy (2010)

Emily Diamand

Lilly Melkun

1 Reavers' Ransom (2008) 

2 Flood and Fire (2010)

Michael Grant

Gone

1 Gone (2008) 

2 Hunger (2009) 

3 Lies (2010) 

4 Plague (2011) 

5 Fear (2012) 

6 Light (2013) 

7 Monster (2017)

Charlie Higson

The Enemy

1 The Enemy (2009)

2 The Dead (2010)

3 The Fear (2011)

4 The Sacrifice (2012)

5 The Fallen (2013)

6 The Hunted (2014)

7 The End (2015)

A Small Free Kiss in the Dark (2009) Glenda Millard

Janni Lee Simner

Bones of Faerie Trilogy

1 Bones of Faerie (2009)

2 Faerie Winter (2011)

3 Faerie After (2013)

Chris Wooding

Malice

1 Malice (2009) 

2 Havoc (2010) 

Ally Condie

Matched

◦ 1 Matched (2010)

◦ 2 Crossed (2011)

◦ 3 Reached (2012)

Ann Aguirre

Razorland

0.5 Foundation (2012) [SF]

1 Enclave (2011)

1.5 Endurance (2012) [SF]

2 Outpost (2012)

3 Horde (2013)

4 Vanguard (2017)

Ilsa J. Bick

The Ashes Trilogy

1 Ashes (2011)

2 Shadows (2012)

3 Monsters (2013)

Anna Carey

Eve (Anna Carey)

1 Eve (2011)

2 Once (2012)

3 Rise (2013)

Lauren DeStefano

The Chemical Garden Trilogy

1 Wither (2011)

2 Fever (2012)

3 Sever (2013)

The Eleventh Plague (2011) Jeff Hirsch

Sophie Littlefield

Aftertime

1. Aftertime (2011)

2. Rebirth (2011)

3. Horizon (2012)

Survivors (2011)

Marie Lu

Legend

◦ 1 Legend (2011)

◦ 2 Prodigy (2013)

◦ 3 Champion (2013)

◦ Life Before Legend (2013) [C]

The Young Elites

◦ 1 The Young Elites (2014)

◦ 2 The Rose Society (2015)

◦ 3 The Midnight Star (2016)

Tahereh Mafi

Juliette / Shatter Me

1 Shatter Me (2011)  

1.5 Destroy Me (2012) [SF] 

2 Unravel Me (2013) 

2.5 Fracture Me (2013) [SF] 

3 Ignite Me (2014) 

4 Restore Me (2018)

Unite Me (2014) [C]

Lisa McMann

The Unwanteds Universe

A The Unwanteds

1 The Unwanteds (2011)

2 Island of Silence (2012)

3 Island of Fire (2013)

4 Island of Legends (2014)

5 Island of Shipwrecks (2015)

6 Island of Graves (2015)

7 Island of Dragons (2016)

 B The Unwanteds Quests

1 Dragon Captives (2017)

2 Dragon Bones (2018)

Mike Mullin

Ashfall

1 Ashfall (2011)

2 Ashen Winter (2012)

3 Sunrise (2014)

Lauren Oliver

Delirium ◦ 0.5 Annabel (2012) [SF]

◦ 1 Delirium (2011)

◦ 1.5 Hana (2011) [SF]

◦ 2 Pandemonium (2012)

◦ 2.5 Raven (2013) [SF]

◦ 3 Requiem (2013)

◦ 3.5 Alex (2014) [SF]

◦ Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven & Alex (2016) [C]

◦ The Book of Shhh (2016) [SF]

Veronica Rossi

Under the Never Sky

1 Under the Never Sky (2011) also appeared as:

,1.5 Roar and Liv (2012) [SF]

2 Through the Ever Night (2013) 

2.5 Brooke (2014) [SF]

3 Into the Still Blue (2014) 

The Scorpio Races (2011) Maggie Stiefvater

Ashes, Ashes (2011) Jo Treggiari

Gabrielle Zevin

Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin)

1 All These Things I've Done (2011)

2 Because It Is My Blood (2012)

3 In the Age of Love and Chocolate (2013)

Jennifer Bosworth

0.5.Prophet  [SF] (2012)

1. Struck (2012)

Strange Rain  [SF]  (2013)

Kiera Cass

The Selection

1 The Selection (2012) also appeared as:

2 The Elite (2013) also appeared as:

3 The One (2014) also appeared as:

4 The Heir (2015) also appeared as:

5 The Crown (2016) also appeared as:

The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard (2014) [C]

Happily Ever After (2015) [C]

The Favorite (2015) [SF]

The Queen (2015) [SF]

S.D. Crockett

After the Snow Universe

After the Snow (2012)

One Crow Alone (2013)

Antony John

Elemental (Antony John)

1 Elemental (2012)

2 Firebrand (2013)

3 Renegade (2014)

Kristen Simmons

Article 5

1 Article 5 (2012)

2 Breaking Point (2013)

3 Three (2014)

Piers Torday

Kester Jaynes

1 The Last Wild (2013)

2 The Dark Wild (2014)

Suzanne Young

The Program

1 The Program (2013) 

2 The Treatment (2014) 

3 The Remedy (2015) 

4 The Epidemic (2016)

5 The Adjustment (2017)

6 The Complication [forthcoming: Apr 24 2018]

The Recovery (2015) [SF]

Austin Aslan

Animal Answer Guides

1 The Islands at the End of the World (2014)

2 The Girl at the Center of the World (2015)

Virginia Bergin

H2O

1 H2O (2014)

2 The Storm (2015)

Pierce Brown

Red Rising

1 Red Rising (2014) 

2 Golden Son (2015) 

3 Morning Star (2016) 

4 Iron Gold (2018)

The One Safe Place (2014)   Tania Unsworth 

Station Eleven (2014) Emily St. John Mandel

Eric Walters

The Rule of Three

1 The Rule of Three (2014)

2 Fight for Power (2015)

3 Will to Survive (2016)

Fourth Dimension (2018)

Chris Weitz

The Young World

1 The Young World (2014)                                                 

2 The New Order (2015)

3 The Revival (2016)

Scott Sigler

The Generations Trilogy

1 Alive (2015)

2 Alight (2016)

3 Alone (2017)

Nirvana (2015) J.R. Stewart

SOME DYSTOPIAN/ APOCALYPTIC CLASSICS

Lord of the World (1907) Robert Hugh Benson

Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley

1984 (1949) George Orwell

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

The Fireman (1951) [SF]

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

The Stand (1978) Stephen King

The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Margaret Atwood

The Children of Men (1992) P.D. James

The Road (2006) Cormac McCarthy

Some NON YA Dystopian

Harrison Bergeron (1961) [SF]  Kurt Vonnegut

This Perfect Day (1970) Ira Levin

Swan Song (1987) Robert McCammon

Hugh Howey

Silo

1 Wool (2011)

2 Shift (2012)

3 Dust (2013)

World War Z by Max Brooks