Unravel Me is the second book in Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series. It continues the story of Juliette Ferrars, a girl with a lethal touch, as she copes with her new life in the resistance movement against a repressive regime.
This narrative explores themes of family, love, and survival, set against the backdrop of a dystopian game show.
Red Rising is a dystopian science fiction novel following the story of Darrow, a Red miner on Mars who infiltrates the ruling Gold caste to dismantle the society’s color-coded hierarchy from within.
George Orwell’s 1984 is a dystopian novel that explores the themes of totalitarianism, surveillance, and individual freedom. It depicts a society under the control of a tyrannical government led by Big Brother, where citizens are constantly monitored and brainwashed.
Fahrenheit 451 depicts a dystopian future where books are outlawed and ‘firemen’ burn any that are found. Through the protagonist, Montag, it explores themes of censorship, the effects of technology on society, and the importance of literature.
In ‘The Maze Runner,’ young Thomas wakes up in a mysterious maze called the Glade, with no memory of his past. Together with other ‘Gladers’, they must find a way to escape through the ever-changing maze, facing numerous challenges and uncovering the dark secrets behind their predicament.
Parable of the Sower, a dystopian novel by Octavia E. Butler, follows the journey of Lauren Olamina, a young girl living in a society ravaged by climate change and economic crises. Lauren, who develops the ability to feel others’ pain, creates her own religion, Earthseed, centered on the idea of God as change. The book explores the themes of survival, empathy, and the power of belief in shaping reality.
Endgame by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton is a thrilling, action-packed adventure that follows the lives of 12 young players. Each has been trained since birth to represent their bloodline in the Game, an ancient, global contest of survival. The players journey across continents, solve ancient riddles, and fight to discover a key which will save their bloodline, yet doom the others.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian novel set in a futuristic World State, where citizens are scientifically engineered into a rigid social order. The state, guided by an ideology of consumption, pleasure and stability, controls every aspect of people’s lives. However, this apparent utopia is juxtaposed with the life of the Savage, who represents the struggle for personal freedom and meaning outside of societal norms.