Dystopian fiction

  • Catching fire : The hunger games, book 2

    Creator

    Collins, Suzanne

    Abstract

    The second book in Suzanne Collins's phenomenal and worldwide bestselling Hunger Games trilogy. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Scholastic Press

    Not specified
  • Mockingjay : The hunger games, book 3

    Creator

    Collins, Suzanne

    Abstract

    The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking about one of the biggest and most talked-about books and authors in recent publishing history!

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Scholastic Press

    Not specified
  • Woman world

    Creator

    Dhaliwal, Aminder

    Abstract

    THE HILARIOUS AND WILDLY POPULAR INSTAGRAM COMIC ABOUT A WORLD WITH NO MEN. With her startling humor, it's no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal's web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of over 120,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000 likes. Now, readers everywhere will delight in the print edition as Dhaliwal seamlessly incorporates feminist philosophical concerns into a series of perfectly-paced strips that skewer perceived notions of femininity and contemporary cultural icons.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Montreal

    Drawn & Quarterly

    Not specified
  • The future

    Creator

    Leroux, Catherine

    Abstract

    A woman seeking justice in an imagined Detroit discovers resilience and resistance where she least expects they will be found. Looking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was murdered. A stranger in a Fort-Detroit neighborhood coping with the ongoing effects of racial and economic injustice, she finds herself surrounded by poverty, pollution, violence--as well as the resilience of the residents, in whose stubborn generosity and carefully tended gardens she finds hope.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    LaVergne

    Biblioasis

    Not specified
  • Chain-gang all-stars

    Creator

    Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame

    Abstract

    Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black"Like Orwell's 1984 and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Adjei-Brenyah's book presents a dystopian vision so ... illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we're capable of doing."--The Washington Post "This book will change you! ...

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • The marrow thieves

    Creator

    Dimaline, Cherie

    Abstract

    In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population-- and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow-- and dreams-- means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite with loved ones, and take refuge from the "recruiters" who seek them out to bring them to the marrow-stealing 'factories.'

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    DCB, an imprint of Cormorant Books Inc.

    Not specified
  • Transferral

    Creator

    Blair, Kate

    Abstract

    London, England, present day. This is the world as we know it, but with one key difference: medical science has found a way to remove diseases from the sick. The catch? They can only transfer the diseases into other living humans. The government now uses the technology to cure the innocent by infecting criminals.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, Ontario

    Dancing Cat Books, an imprint of Cormorant Books Inc.

    Not specified
  • The tiger flu

    Creator

    Lai, Larissa

    Abstract

    In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Vancouver

    Arsenal Pulp Press

    Not specified
  • The dome

    Creator

    Craig-Whytock, Suzanne

    Abstract

    It's the year 2135, almost four decades since the Water Wars ended. Much of the continent is a desert wasteland, and the powerful Consortium rules Adanac, one of the few habitable areas remaining, with an iron fist. Cee and Dee, 16-year-old twins who share a special, almost psychic bond, are runaways from a Consortium workhouse. The twins are tested to their limits as they confront the demons of their past and try to save the future, for themselves and all of Adanac.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, Canada

    BookLand Press

    Not specified
  • Watershed

    Creator

    Vanderstoop, Doreen

    Abstract

    Watershed is a contemporary dystopian novel set in a near-future southern Alberta, which has been ravaged by desert-like conditions, as opposed to the northern part of the province, which is warm as well as green and lush thanks to a water pipeline from the ocean. The province's former oil and gas pipelines are being converted to carry desalinated sea water, and the north and south are at odds because of it. The protagonist, Wilma, is desperately trying to hold onto her dying family farm, while her son, Daniel, takes a job for the enemy: the big water pipeline corporation.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Calgary

    Freehand Books

    Not specified