With the popularity of the Hunger Games and Divergent movies, I just had to take a moment to recommend some more great reads to you guys! Dystopian Future Sci-Fi has always been my favorite genre of book. If you like those movies or books, check out these: 1) Matched Trilogy, Ally Condie (Less violent than Hunger Games and a much better romance than Divergent, I’m amazing it has yet to be made into a movie. Much less violent than the genre as a whole, but a must-read. Not my favorite ending, but no worse than Hunger Games). 2) Ender’s Game Series, Orson Scott Card (There are two branches in this series. One follows Ender (Ender’s Game), one follows Bean (Ender’s Shadow). I like the Bean branch better, because it has elements of a Geo-Political Thriller and Romance as well, but the entire series is AMAZING). 3) Girl In The Arena, Lisa Haines (If you liked Hunger Games, if you like sports, and if you like near-future novels, read this stand-alone book. Caution: Violent like the Hunger Games.) 4) Anthem, Ayn Rand (Just over 100 pages in most formats, it’s an easy read. The first classic in this genre to have a happy ending (in my humble opinion), it is something that every human being should read, because it accurately describes the human experience.) 5) Birthmarked Trilogy, Caragh O’Brien (Divergent took a little content from this book, which is also set in Future Chicago, but this is unique. There aren’t as many overplayed themes and it is truly unique. It is a higher reading level than most books in the genre, and it starts slow, but ends very well.) 6) Space Trilogy, C.S. Lewis (Confession: I never actually finished the third book, because it combined Fantasy elements with Sci-Fi, and Merlin the Wizard surfaced, so it lost me. THAT SAID, the first two books are fantastic! Out of The Silent Planet and Perelandra kind of set the stage for non-Earth fiction.) 7) Tomorrow, When War The Began, John Marsden (Imagine Australia overtaken by an unknown enemy. There are half a dozen books and they read well. Much more “real life” than most Sci-Fi.) 8) Life As We Knew It, Sarah Beth Pfeffer (Set in the near-future US, it is arguably in the Survival genre, as well. True to the genre, and therefore kinda sad and lacking hope, it’s still a great read). I would be remiss to leave out two classics—Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Feed by M.T. Anderson—but since they are in the more classical, hopeless style of this genre, they can be real downers. Still worth reading, though. Orwell’s 1984 is worth mentioning, but it is definitely at the bottom of this list for a reason. I hope at least one of you enjoys my recommendations and happy reading :)
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:22:21 +0000
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