Juvenile and YA Fiction: Dystopia‪!‬ BiblioFiles: A CenterForLit Podcast about Great Books, Great Ideas, and the Great Conversation

No other genre has been influenced by the emergence of YA fiction quite like dystopian literature. In this episode, Megan and Emily join Ian to compare recent dystopian contributions aimed at young adults like Divergent and The Hunger Games to 20th century classics like 1984 and Lord of the Flies.

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The How to Eat an Elephant podcast


The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins


The Mazerunner by James Dashner


Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card


Ready Player One by Ernest Cline


Divergent by Veronica Roth


1984 by George Orwell


Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain


Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel


Utopia by Sir Thomas More


Plato’s Republic


Lord of the Flies by William Golding


The Giver by Lois Lowry


Red Rising by Pierce Brown


We by Yevgeny Zamyatin


Dune by Frank Herbert


Foundation by Isaac Asimov


The Space/Ransom Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis



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