Future dystopian fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, in which the setting is a future society under some sort of oppressive, authoritarian regime. This subgenre has been around for decades and has always had a loyal fan base, but ever since the mega-hit Hunger Games trilogy several years ago, the future dystopian subgenre has soared in popularity. After the Hunger Games trilogy came the equally popular Divergent series (all of which we have here at the McAllen Public Library). The popularity of future dystopian fiction spans from the teen audience to the mainstream adult audience, and from popular fiction to classic literature. Last week, it was reported in multiple news outlets that many classic future dystopian novels, including George Orwell’s 1984, have once again soared to the top of bestseller lists.
This week, we present to you a list of popular and classic future dystopian novels which you might enjoy:
Ann Aguirre, Enclave
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam
Richard Bachman (Stephen King), The Running Man
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl
J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Don Bredes, Polly and the One and Only World
Max Brooks, World War Z
Pierce Brown, Red Rising
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Kiera Cass, The Selection series
Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Game trilogy
Allyson Braithwaite Condie, Matched trilogy
James Dashner, The Maze Runner trilogy
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
William Gibson, Neuromancer
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Howard Jabobson, J: a novel
Chang-Rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here
Jack London, The Iron Heel
Lois Lowry, The Giver
Marie Lu, Legend trilogy
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Marissa Meyer, The Lunar Chronicles
William F. Nolan, Logan’s Run
Lauren Oliver, Delirium trilogy
George Orwell, 1984
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Dexter Palmer, Version Control
Veronica Roth, Divergent trilogy
Gary Schteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story 
John Shirley, A Song Called Youth
Johanna Sinisalo, The Core of the Sun
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
Jeff VanderMeer, Southern Reach Trilogy
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
Scott Westerfeld, Uglies series
Richard Yancey, The 5th Wave
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
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