Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the fab Broke and the Bookish. Each week we are invited to list our top ten's on a variety of topics. This week's list is an open Top Ten to choose a genre.
My List: Top Ten Dystopian Novels You Must Read!!!
If you are a follower of my blog, it's no secret that the dystopian genre is one of my absolute favourites. There are so many aspects of it that I love, but if I had to choose one thing that seems to hold true for all of them is the hope expressed in what seems like a hopeless world. The protagonist strives against all odds. Below is a list of my favourites in no particular order.
Delirium & Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
The Maze Runner & The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Unwind by Neal Shusterman (disturbing but amazing)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
It's a few more than ten:) How many of the above have you read? Looking forward to seeing everybody's lists!!!
I agree with all of these! I would add 1984 by George Orwell, Incarceron/Sapphique by Catherine Fisher, Matched/Crossed by Ally Condie, Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, The Forest of Hands and Teeth/The Dead Tossed Waves/The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan, Pure by Julianna Baggott, and Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi. Of course, that is far more than ten, but it's my favorite genre...
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I need to read Delirium and Maze Runner - I keep hearing such great things about them, yet for some reason? I haven't read it yet...
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I've read some of those. I'm not nearly as big a fan of Lauren Oliver as you are, but these are good choices. I also loved Incarceron and the Matched books.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe I still haven't read Fahrenheit 451. It's on my list to get to, and soon!
ReplyDeleteMy list this week is my Top Ten Classics.