Monday, February 8, 2010

Dystopian Challenge


Ohh, this challenge is a dream come true. A reason to gather in all of the post-apocalypse, chaos, and social disorder fiction I have been intending to read...

To participate, you must read 5, 10, or, for the total disaster junkie, 20 titles fitting this category before August 24th. This contest is in anticipation of the third Hunger Games book. Click on the image for more details.

My list:

  1. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  2. In the Country of Last Things by Paul Aster (completed)
  3. Sea of Glass by Barry B. Longyear (completed)
  4. The Children of Men by P. D. James (completed)
  5. Blindness by Jose Saramago (completed)
  6. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (completed)
  7. The Maze Runner by James Dashner (completed)
  8. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut (completed)
  9. Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (completed)
  10. Gone by Michael Grant (completed)
  11. Hunger by Michael Grant (completed)
  12. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (completed)
  13. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (completed)
  14. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (completed)
  15. The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer (completed)
  16. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (completed)
  17. The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan (completed)
  18. The Declaration by Gemma Malley (completed)
  19. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick
  20. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (completed)
  21. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (completed)
  22. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (completed)
  23. The Resistance by Gemma Malley (completed)
  24. The Forever Formula by Frank Bonham (completed)
  25. The Iron Heel by Jack London
  26. Anthem by Ayn Rand (completed)
It is subject to change, based on availability of the titles. Also, several of these are parts of a series, and I may or may not read the next installment. The list may grow or change completely before I'm finished with it.


Any books I finish will be linked to their reviews through this list.


Bring it on!!

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