Young Adult Fiction for Adults discussion

I am really loving the Dystopian genre. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I've read: Hunger Games, Divergent, Matched, Possession and I'm sure there are others, but can you recommend any to me?

Thanks!

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is good.
is early dystopian (not as good as Hunger Games but it came before HG)


I read an ARC of which isn't out yet but I really liked it.

I second also, and Blood Red Road is more of a Post Apocalyptic.

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I thought was pretty good. I haven't read many dystopian novels.

Wendy F wrote: "I second !"

I third it!

Shipbreakers, Unwind, and Blood Red Road (all mentioned above) are all solid dystopian books. was also ok. The only two series I love in this genre was Hunger Games and Chaos Walking (Knife of Never Letting Go). Not much has held up to them yet IMO.

Unwind was the kind of book that sticks with you, even months later. Very intense. LOVED it!

Some others: and

The Giver and Lord of the Flies are not explicitly YA, but I read The Giver in middle school and Lord of the Flies in high school, so I figured they would count. I also didn't care for either of them but I have many friends who loved both (and they're both staples of the genre) so I figured I'd include them.

For non-YA recs, I'd check out William Gibson. I loved Pattern Recognition and he's considered to be one of the top dogs in the cyberpunk genre (which I would consider to be a subset of the dystopian genre.)

I am reading Divergent - it is an awesome book..alot like Hunger Games

The Uglies trilogy was a fun series.


Uglies
Pretties
Specials

Across the Universe
Incarceron
Sapphique
Awaken

Candor by Pam Bachorz isn't strictly dystopian, but it has many of those elements. Same with Gone by Michael Grant.

PadfootsLove wrote: "The Uglies trilogy was a fun series.


Uglies
Pretties
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Also consider the series companion Extras

Kristina wrote: "? Just finished the other day and it was AWESOME!! I highly recommend. Def dystopian type of world!

Enjoyed both of these, and both revolve around the future of pregnancy and babies.

My favorites that haven't been mentioned on this thread yet are:
best zombies: Mira Grant's Feed and Deadline
best demons: The Warded Man by Peter Brett and Paul Kadrey's Sandman Slim
best techno-futures: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Emma Bull's Bone Dance
best creepy & different dystopian: Mechanique by Genevieve Valentine
best ya dystopian (not listed yet, others here are great): Finder by Emma Bull

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I really LOVED Delirium, too.