Asimov, Isaac. I Robot. New York: Del Ray, 1950. This classic dystopian work of science fiction includes Asimov’s infamous Three Laws of Robotics and becomes a cornerstone in my students’ final projects.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon and Shuster, 2019. This 60th anniversary edition of the classic Bradbury novel is complemented with an introduction by YA author, Neil Gaiman.
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008. This popular dystopian novel, the first in the trilogy, is utilized several times in my unit.
Dashner, James. The Maze Runner. New York: Delacorte Press, 2009. In this critically acclaimed dystopian novel, inhabitants of a fictional world race to escape an apocalyptic illness known as the Flare.
DuPreau, Jeanne. The City of Ember. New York: Random House, 2003. The protagonist in this dystopian novel races to unlock the secret that will save the world from darkness.
Jackson, Shirley. The Lottery and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. This collection of Shirley Jackson stories includes The Lottery, a classic tale utilized in this unit.
Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, 1993. This classic YA novel provides another fictional view of a society’s attempts to create a utopian society leading instead to a dystopian one
More, Thomas. Utopia. New York, Penguin Classics. 1965. This fictional depiction of utopian society is a cornerstone for the study of utopian philosophy and literature.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Penguin Clothbound Classics. London, England: Penguin Classics, 2021. This classic novel is a mainstay for any study of dystopian literature.
