29 Results with the "Dystopian" genre


    • The Fifth Season Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin The Fifth Sea­son is the first book in N. K. Jemisin’s ground­break­ing Bro­ken Earth tril­o­gy, a mas­ter­piece that rede­fines epic fan­ta­sy. Set on a super­con­ti­nent called the Still­ness, where cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate dis­as­ters (known as “Fifth Sea­sons”) reg­u­lar­ly dev­as­tate civ­i­liza­tion, the sto­ry fol­lows three inter­twined nar­ra­tives: ​Essun, a woman search­ing for her miss­ing daugh­ter in a world col­laps­ing into chaos. ​Damaya, a young girl with dan­ger­ous pow­ers, tak­en…
    • The Chrysalids Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Chrysalids, John Wyn­d­ham crafts a chill­ing post-apoc­a­lyp­tic world where ​genet­ic puri­ty​ is enforced with reli­gious fer­vor. Set in ​Waknuk, a farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty in a radi­a­tion-scarred future, the sto­ry fol­lows ​David Strorm, a boy who hides a dan­ger­ous secret: he pos­sess­es ​tele­path­ic abil­i­ties—a muta­tion pun­ish­able by exile or death in his rigid soci­ety. When David befriends ​Sophie, a girl with an extra toe, and…
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      Prodigy

      Prodigy Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Prodi­gy is the grip­ping sec­ond install­ment in Marie Lu’s Leg­end tril­o­gy, esca­lat­ing the stakes in a dystopi­an war between the Repub­lic and the Colonies. After their dra­mat­ic escape in Leg­end, ​June​ and ​Day​ join the rebel Patri­ot group, hop­ing to over­throw the Republic’s tyran­ni­cal gov­ern­ment. But trust is fragile—June’s loy­al­ty is ques­tioned due to her elite past, while Day grap­ples with grief and the weight of becom­ing a…
      Dystopian • Fiction • Political Fiction • Thriller • Young Adult
    • Never Let Me Go Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In Nev­er Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishig­uro weaves a haunt­ing and intro­spec­tive tale set in an alter­nate-real­i­ty ​1990s Eng­land, where ​Kathy H.​, a ​car­er, reflects on her child­hood at ​Hail­sham, an idyl­lic yet unset­tling board­ing school. As Kathy reunites with her for­mer class­mates ​Ruth​ and ​Tom­my, she con­fronts the dark truth about their exis­tence: they are ​clones, cre­at­ed sole­ly to pro­vide ​organ dona­tions​ for “nor­mal”…
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