Can anyone recommend some good YA dystopian novels?
Can anyone recommend some good YA dystopian novels?
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The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau was good – its series.
I have that in my TBR pile
Marie Lu’s Legend Trilogy is great!
I read that series! I even bought the graphic novel for the first one! It was really good.
Partials!
Queen of the tearling
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
The Hunger series (I havent read this one and can’t recall who it’s by sorry)
The 100 (haven’t read it either but it’s based on a CW show)
The Matched Trilogy
The Program by Susanne Young (I didn’t enjoy this one as much as I hoped but it has good reviews)
Erm I had more but give me some time and I’ll add to the list.
I sadly can’t read the Hunger Games…..I watched the movies before I realized it was based on a book series (I was forced by my best friend to go watch it) and once I’ve seen the move I can’t read the book. It’s the same way with the 100..although I do love that show
I’m the same way!!! I made that mistake with The Maze Runner series and the last book of the divergent series. I always try to read the books first lol but the biggest struggle with being a bookworm is my TBR xD
@Ashley My TBR pile gets me in trouble every payday. last my husband and I counted I have 40 books in that pile, and I still have to buy at least 2 new books every pay day lol. I haven’t read the Maze Runner either, but I watched the movies, so that’s out for me too.
@Tamara I was doing really good but intend to indulge in retail therapy when I get stressed so I’ve indulged a bit recently. But there are worse habits to have so least I can say I’m well read! I’m drawing a blank for other dystopian series and it’s bugging me. For a while that was all I’d read. It seems I’m on a fantasy kick right now.
How about 1984 by George Orwell? I read that one in high school and it’s stuck with me since then lol.
@Ashley I read that for high school and I loved it. I like fantasy too, if you can recommend any good fantasy novels that I can add to my list, I’d love that too
Oooo! There’s ACOTAR and Throne of Glass by Sara J Maas, there’s Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, she’s also got an adult series about succubuses that I haven’t read but has decent reviews. Anything by Marissa Meyers is the bees knees, P.c Cast is good but I’d suggest her goddess series over The House of Night. There’s the Tithe series by Holly Black if you like creepy fairies (the best kind!!)
I..should take a breath lol. I read a lot of Y.A but some of the adult ones are mixed in. You might enjoy Merced’s Lackey and Andre Norton as well, they’re more of an old school fantasy duo but still so good!
This is really sad……of all the books you’ve just named. I’ve read them all except the Tithe series, but I love Holly Black so I will have to find that one
Lol that’s not sad, it’s always good finding a kindred reader. Hmmm have tried booktube? They recommend a lot of different novels there some new and not new.
Meanwhile I’m just gonna go through my bookshelves and see if I can find something ?
Have you tried the Rebel of the Sands series?
I have, I read the first and I have the second one. Love it
Have you read of Renee Ahdieh’s books? Her style of writing is gorgeous!
@Ashley I read two of them, for the life of me I can’t remember the name about the emir and the curse and the dead brides (I feel like that’s a horrible description lol) I loved those. I’m reading the second novel of the Rebel of the Sands and I love it, but I feel like most of the books I read are pretty much like this.
She has another book that’s like a retelling of Mulan and I know the ones you’re talking of. I haven’t got the other one yet sadly.
I know what you mean, maybe you need a different genre? I read so much fantasy I picked a sci-fi and a slice of life to get a break from it.
@Ashley I just finished a sci-fi dystopian novel called The Rule of Luck by Catherine Cerveny. It was really good. It’s not YA but somehow I still liked it
Ooo sounds interesting! I’ll check it out. Hmm how about The ScorpionRaces by Maggie Stievwater( she wrote the shiver series too), and there another one called The Winners Circle or curse I think. I don’t recall that one too well but I remember being in awe of the covers.
How about Shatter me? Or Carve the mark by Veronica Roth (my current read it’s awesome!)
I loved Carve the Mark, I’m impatiently for the second one. I liked the Winner’s Curse, but it wasn’t that memorable. I could not get into Shatter me
Hmm how about the red queen trilogy? It’s got a dystopian feel to it. There’s Truthwitch too (it’s in my tbr, I swear I’m gonna read it eventually lol)
You should read Truthwitch! I loved it, and I can’t wait until the next book. Most of the series I’ve read I’m impatiently waiting for the next book. The Red Queen is on that list.
Lol I can read a book a week if I focus. If I don’t keep buying I can make a dent in my pile but I’m not gonna lie I love my overflowing bookshelves!
Erm The Tigers Curse series bybColleen Houck? I read one of those I think, prolly will end up retreading it lol.
Oh My! A series I have never heard of, that sounds interesting lol
Something to do with India, and cursed cousins or brothers I think…yea a reread is in order lol
Oh the the 100!
There’s The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood too but that one struck me as a little odd, I liked the writing style. Oh there’s Ann Rynd too I think? The lady who wrote The Fountainhead
If I get the names wrong I apologize I am going completely on vague memories of high school English classes lol
David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks (though it only becomes dystopian in the last 100+ pages, where the plot moves into the near future.
Ashes, Ashes
The Uglies series
I’m 100 pages into Ready Player One, it’s pretty good
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Good? I was going to say “The Maze Runner”. But when you said “good” it disqualified that awful series
Really?!! It was that bad? I loved the movies
@Tamara I honestly don’t know if all the books were bad. The author wrote a book (I think it was The Death Cure) to explain the backstory to The Maze Runner. It was virtually unreadable. Really poorly written.
Ready player one
I’ve written a 4 part series that might interest you, all available on Amazon.
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken. It is also coming out as a movie soon. And, it’s a trilogy I believe. I have only read this first one, but I liked a lot.
Check out Immurement by Norma Hinkens
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32318250
This is a less well known one compared to all the normal recommendations but I really liked this one, and I usually don’t like YA or Dystopian. It had a little different spin on the end of the world scenario and the characters were all a lot of fun.