This year’s reading challenge is a bit different and as promised each month we’ll give you a list of suggested books for each category. For April I asked the Cwts Discussion Group to recommend their favourite Dystopian or Speculative fiction novel. We already have several blogs on For Reading Addicts with great suggestions (links at the end) so these are just a few different books that don’t already appear.
Red Clocks – Leni Zumas
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers.
The Girl with all the Gifts – M.R. Carey
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite. But they don’t laugh.
The Girl with all the Gifts US
The Girl with all the Gifts UK
The Power – Naomi Alderman
All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain – even death. Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they’ve lost control.
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
As a child, Kathy lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.
Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days.When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune – and control of the OASIS itself.
For more ideas check out these lists
25 Dystopian & Post Apoc Books for YA Readers
Top 5 Dystopian Novels of All Time
15 Greatest Dystopian Novels of all Time
Pick a book using our lists or pick one off your TBR pile but don’t forget to let us know what you’re reading over on Cwts Club Discussion Group.
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