W. Peter Flaig Library

Dystopian Fiction

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Akira, Vol. 1The science fiction tale set in 2019 in Tokyo after the city was destroyed by World War III, follows the lives of two teenage friends, Te...

American WarAn audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle a stor...

Animal FarmLibrarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here. A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistre...

ArchangelScience Fiction Superstar William Gibson's first graphic novel! The U.S. political leaders of 2016 abandon the radioactive planet they ve...

The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, ti...

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capital, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is p...

BatmanThis masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson...

Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062259653 Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and...

Borne (Borne, #1)In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names “Borne” e...

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the WorldMy name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of...

Brave New WorldBrave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic ...

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)SPARKS ARE IGNITING.FLAMES ARE SPREADING.AND THE CAPITAL WANTS REVENGE.Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games. ...

Cat's CradleTold with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armag...

A Clockwork OrangeIn Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantas...

Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. For ...

The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the g...

The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, #3)It’s the end of the line. WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it...

Divergent (Divergent, #1)In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular vir...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue android...

Fahrenheit 451Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather th...

FeedIdentity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implan...

The Fever Code (The Maze Runner, #5)Once there was a world’s end. The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled. Then came a plague, and fever ...

The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4...

The Giver (The Giver, #1)Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to unders...

GnomonFrom the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, comes a virtuosic new novel set in a near-future, high-tech surveil...

Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better fut...

Gone (Gone, #1)In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, th...

The GunslingerIn the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The La...

The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets w...

High-RiseWhen a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate...

The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns out to be an inspiring tale of friends...

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)WINNING MEANS FAME AND FORTUNE.LOSING MEANS CERTAIN DEATH.THE HUNGER GAMES HAVE BEGUN. . . .In the ruins of a place once known as North A...

Inhuman (Fetch, #1)In a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father’s life ...

Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. ...

Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)They call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his army vas...

It Can't Happen HereThe only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cauti...

The Kill Order (The Maze Runner, #4)Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to diseas...

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men...

Legend (Legend, #1)What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite f...

The Long WalkOn the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for a race known as "The Long Walk." If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If yo...

Lord of the FliesAt the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult super...

Maggot MoonOne hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers through a narrative that is by turns grip...

The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)There are alternate cover editions for this ASIN here and here. If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift...

Matched (Matched, #1)In the Society, officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any p...

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)The final book in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy, this new foiled edition of MOCKINGJAY is available for a limited period of ti...

Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as...

Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the ga...

Never Let Me GoFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery...

1984Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory bec...

Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was o...

The Passage (The Passage, #1)IT HAPPENED FAST. THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN. First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S...

The PlagueA gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is...

Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Wa...

Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their...

The RoadA searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned Americ...

The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But...

Slaughterhouse-FiveSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's...

The StandThis is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that...

They Both Die at the EndAdam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two peo...

The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)An alternate cover edition of ISBN 978-0385543781 can be found here. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Hand...

The Testing (The Testing, #1)Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same? ...

The TrialWritten in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable ban...

The Twelve (The Passage, #2)In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transform...

Uglies (Uglies, #1)Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugl...

Underground AirlinesA young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshal...

Unwind (Unwind, #1)Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Li...

V for Vendetta"Remember, remember the fifth of November..." A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believ...

Want (Want, #1)Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer lives. The rich wear special suits that protect t...

WatchmenThis Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along ...

The Water KnifeIn the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel...

Y"Y" is none other than unemployed escape artist Yorick Brown (his father was a Shakespeare buff), and he's seemingly the only male human ...

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