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1984

By George Orwell
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, September 27, 2016. 1:30 PM.

Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government, considered a "Negative Utopia," watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by.

2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America

By Albert Brooks
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

“A near-future world struggles with the challenges of a dramatically aging population revitalized by the cure for cancer, a scenario that is challenged by an unprecedented natural disaster that drives the government into bankruptcy (From the Publisher).”

Age of Miracles

By Karen Thompson Walker
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A painstakingly researched debut imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.

Akira

By Katsuhiro Otomo
Series Akira

In Neo–Tokyo, built on the former site of Tokyo after World War III, two teenagers are targeted by agencies after they develop paranormal abilities.

Among the Hidden

By Margaret Peterson Haddix
Series Shadow Children

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family’s farm, until another “third” convinces him that the government is wrong.

Anthem

By Ayn Rand

Classic tale of a future dark age of the great "We" - a world that deprives individuals of name, independence and values.

Apocalypse Z

By Manel Loureiro

"The dead rise…A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news — it’s the only warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious virus that creates monsters of men (From the Publisher)."

Atlas Shrugged

By Ayn Rand

A woman struggles to manage a transcontinental railroad amid the pressures & restrictions of massive bureaucracy.

Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

By Suzanne Collins
Series Hunger Games Trilogy

In a prequel to The Hunger Games, eighteen–year–old Coriolanus Snow prepares to mentor the female tribute from District 12 in the tenth Hunger Games, with the fate of his family hanging on the slim chance that he can help her win the Games.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

By Frank Miller

The Dark Knight Returns is set in a dystopian near–future version of Gotham City. A year is never specified, though it has been a full decade since the last reported sighting of Batman, the current American President appears to be Ronald Reagan or someone using his image, and the Cold War is still ongoing. Virtually all superheroes, with the exception of Superman, have been forced into retirement or otherwise driven away by a distrusting populace. Bruce Wayne has voluntarily retired from crime fighting following the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin. In the absence of superheroes, criminals run amok, and a gang called the Mutants terrorize Gotham City.

By Josh Malerman

In a world where no one can go outside for fear of something terrifying that when seen drives people to deadly violence, single mother Malorie and her two children must attempt a terrifying twenty-mile trip downriver while blindfolded.

Brave New World

By Aldous Huxley
With Lisa Caputo, Assistant Library Director

Tuesday, February 28, 2012. 1 PM & 7:30 PM.

The story of a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability.

 

Became the movie: Brave New World.

California

By Edan Lepucki

After escaping the crumbing ruins of L.A. for a shack in the wilderness, Cal and Frida realize they are pregnant and seek refuge on the nearest settlement - a guarded, dark and paranoid community.

Catching Fire

By Suzanne Collins
Series Hunger Games trilogy
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

Children of Men

By P.D. James
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

In 2021, with the human race becoming extinct due to the infertility of all males, Theodore Faron is drawn into the schemes of an unlikely group of revolutionaries out to save society.

Clockwork Orange

By Anthony Burgess

In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom.

 

Became the movie: A Clockwork Orange.

Darkest Minds

By Alexandra Bracken
Series Darkest Minds

Sixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run “rehabilitation camp” for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children.

Divergent

By Veronica Roth
Series Divergent
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

In a dystopian future–era Chicago, 16-year–old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she uncovers powerful secrets and truths about her identity, her family and the order of her society.

Divergent Trilogy

By Veronica Roth

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By Philip K. Dick

Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids. They are machines, but look, sound and think just like humans - clever and most of all dangerous humans.

 

Became the movie: Blade Runner.

Future Home of the Living God

By Louise Erdrich

A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.

Gameboard of the Gods

By Richelle Mead
Series Age of X

Living in exile after failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims, Justin March, a man from a near-future world decimated by religious extremists, is invited to join an elite branch of the military by genetically enhanced solider Mae, with whom he confronts formidable enemies to solve a string of ritual murders.

Giver

By Lois Lowry

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

 

Became the movie: The Giver (2014)

Gold Fame Citrus

By Claire Vaye Watkins

"In the wake of a devastating Southern California drought, two idealistic holdouts fall in love and scavenge for their needs before taking charge of a mysterious child and embarking on a perilous journey in search of water (From the Publisher).”

Golden Son

By Pierce Brown
Series Red Rising Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Darrow, a tragedy-forged rebel hero, continues his work infiltrating the Golds to free his people from the brutal elitist future.

Heart Goes Last

By Margaret Atwood

Enrolling in a project that allows them to live in safe homes between alternate service months spent in prison, a homeless couple is threatened by troubling events stemming from the wife’s involvement with another project member.

Heart of the Assassin

By Robert Ferrigno
Series Assassin Trilogy
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Set in a future American divided into two major regions, Edgar-finalist Ferrigno’s final entry in his Assassin trilogy nicely ties up the wildly diverse plot lines that have motivated his many characters (Publishers Weekly).”

Hunger Games

By Suzanne Collins
Series The Hunger Games Trilogy
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

Little Brother

By Cory Doctorow
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, September 20, 2011.  7 PM.

“Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system … But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.  When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself (From the Publisher).”

Lord of the Flies

By William Golding
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, September 23, 2014. 1:30 PM.

The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.

Nation

By Terry Prachett
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.

Nora Webster

By Colm Toibin

Struggling with grief and financial hardships after the death of her beloved husband, widow Nora Webster struggles to support her four children and clings to secrecy in the intrusive community of her childhood before finding her voice.

Of Blood and Bone

By Nora Roberts
Series Chronicles of the One
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Knowing she will have to reveal her identity as The One, Fallon Swift trains under a centuries-old mentor to hone her magical and fighting abilities to defend their world from violent raiders.

On Such a Full Sea

By Chang-Rae Lee

“In a class-divided future America where urban neighborhoods function as labor colonies for elite charter villages, Fan, a female fish-tank diver, embarks on what becomes a legendary quest to find the man she loves in a region overcome by anarchic forces (From the Publisher).”

Our Missing Hearts

By Celeste Ng

In a society consumed by fear, 12-year–old Bird Gardner, after receiving a mysterious letter, sets out on a quest to find his mother—a Chinese–American poet who left when he was 9 years old—leading him to NYC where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much–needed change.

Rant

By Chuck Palahniuk

A fictional oral biography of Buster "Rant" Casey chronicles the violent world of a small-town rebel who becomes the leader of a demolition derby.

Red Queen

By Victoria Aveyard
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When her latent supernatural powers manifest in front of a noble court, Mare, a thief in a world divided between commoners and super humans, is forced to assume the role of lost princess before risking everything to help a growing rebellion.

Red Rising

By Pierce Brown
Series Red Rising Saga
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife’s execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell.

Riot Baby

By Tochi Onyebuchi

The author of the award–winning young–adult novel Beasts Made of Night tackles youth, race and the carceral state with magical flair, in his adult–science-fiction debut.

Road

By Cormac McCarthy

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.

Sins of the Assassin

By Robert Ferrigno
Series Assassin Trilogy
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Colossal in concept, dazzlingly plotted, filled with vivid, jaw-dropping violence, Sins of the Assassin confirms Robert Ferrigno as the modern master of the futuristic thriller. In the second book of Ferrigno's spectacular Assassin Trilogy, Rakkim Epps battles radical fundamentalist forces in a futuristic America, now a divided blood-soaked dystopia.... (From the Publisher).”

Snow Crash

By Neal Stephenson

In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies.

Stand

By Stephen King
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

"A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, in a desert world, experience dreams of good and evil in confrontation and, through their choices, move toward an actual confrontation (From the Publisher)."

 

Became the TV mini-series: The Stand.

Super Sad True Love Story

By Gary Shteyngart
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, April 8, 2013. 7 PM

“In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she is coming to stay with him in New York, even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the city and the ongoing war with Venezuela can't get him down (From the Publisher).”

Swan Song

By Robert McCammon

In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, Earth’s last survivors have been drawn into a final battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of humanity.

Testaments

By Margaret Atwood
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A long–anticipated sequel to the best–selling The Handmaid’s Tale is set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead.

Uglies

By Scott Westerfeld
Series Uglies

Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.