Dystopian Fiction

 

Matched

This book is hot !

The students have been in to Dystoptian Fiction this year in a big way and many of our best titles have been running off the shelves. According to Wikipedia (argggg) “fictional dystopias are often set in a future projected virtual time and/or space involving technological innovations not accessible in actual present reality”.

One of our most popular books has been Matched by Ally Condie which is now set to become a Disney Film.

Disney and Offspring Entertainment have won a bidding-war with Paramount to secure the rights to the yet-to-be-released first installation of the Ally Condie young adult novel trilogy Matched.  The novel  is set in a society that “dictates what people read, watch and believe.”  Based on that bit of information, it sounds like Disney is a perfect fit for the material (Note: my cynicism doesn’t take away from my love of Beauty and the Beast).

Matched, “with its love triangle and young characters, is being described as yet another potential Twilight for Disney” (recently, the studio also picked up the rights to Lauren Kate’s “angel love triangle” Fallen for similar purposes).  This sounds great because if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s young girls thinking their lives could ever be complete without having a good man to take care of them.  All snarkiness aside, to learn more about what to expect from Matched, hit the link for a quick synopsis of Condie’s novel.

http://www.amazon.com/Matched-Ally-Condie/dp/0525423648/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284569832&sr=8-1

So, as we head into the holidays here are some suggestions that might tickle your fancy if you like this genre. I have read most of these and we have them in the library, but there are some new ones I will be exploring further.

Delirium by Lauren Oliver
The Enclave by Ann Aguirre
Birthmarked by Caragh O’Brien
Epitaph Road by David Patneaude
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Witch and Wizard series by James Patterson
Naughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Matched by Allie Condie
The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher
Numbers by Rachel Ward
Hunger Games by Collins
Hush Hush by Fitzpatrick
Divergent by Roth
Max Rider by Patterson
Evermore by Noel