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Listopia > Hope's votes on the list Best Dystopian Originals (23 Books)
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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"The granddaddy of the books you love now."
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The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
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"US-Mexico border war and cloning... a highly original coming of age story."
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The Wind Singer (Wind on Fire, #1)
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"Some of the best invented swear words and defiant family love you'll find."
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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The Declaration (The Declaration, #1)
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"Science can let you live forever, if you sign the Declaration."
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Obernewtyn (The Obernewtyn Chronicles, #1)
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"Set long after nuclear apocalypse changed the world forever, a group of misfits have powers derived from mutations, bringing persecution and responsibility to prevent disaster from eviscerating society again."
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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"What if you were surrounded by Noise all the time, hearing the thoughts of all men and creatures who could listen to your thoughts in turn? Todd Hewitt finds the exception: the silence of a girl, the first he has ever met, who flee together from the terror of a colony gone very, very wrong."
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The Other Side of the Island
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"Global warming, science, social pressure and a refusal to forget the strong bonds of family love."
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The Compound (The Compound, #1)
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"Trapped in a nuclear bunker with a mad scientist father... tense, high-power drama."
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The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
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"Race against time as the resources of a failsafe underground community run out."
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Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)
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"Down the rabbit hole to a world created as a failsafe for topside devastation that never came. "
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
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"If you save a body devastated in an accident, with cloned material, is it the same person who wakes up?"
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Anna to the Infinite Power
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"Cloning, social conditioning, and the power of individual personality that defies control."
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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"JFic, but such a classic that YA readers can't go wrong if they somehow missed it growing up."
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Brave New World
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"Literary classic (adult)."
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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"Literary classic (adult)."
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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"Literary classic (adult)."
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Frankenstein
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A Clockwork Orange
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"Literary classic (adult)."
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1984
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"Literary classic (adult)."
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Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
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Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)
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The Handmaid's Tale
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