Tag: dystopia

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The Heir

Kiera Cass · 2015

Princess Eadlyn holds her own Selection with 35 suitors while Illea rebels.

2,305-word summary · 10 min read

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand · 1957

Railroads strain under rules as Dagny fights to keep trains running and find a missing inventor.

2,001-word summary · 9 min read

The Death Cure

James Dashner · 2011

Thomas refuses WICKED's final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north.

2,955-word summary · 13 min read

The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey · 2013

Cassie Sullivan crosses ruined Ohio to save Sammy after four alien waves, trusting Evan Walker while doubting him.

3,063-word summary · 14 min read

Powerless

Lauren Roberts · 2023

Ordinary Paedyn hides in Ilya, saves Kai, and enters the Purging Trials while pretending an ability.

3,079-word summary · 14 min read

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · 1968

Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.

2,841-word summary · 13 min read

Delirium

Lauren Oliver · 2011

In a America where love is treated as disease, Lena Haloway counts down to her Cure until she meets Alex in Portland.

2,425-word summary · 11 min read

Watchmen

Alan Moore · 1987

A full retelling of Alan Moore's Watchmen: a retired hero's death in 1985 America sparks a sprawling plot with an exiled god and a shocking bid for peace, from…

2,762-word summary · 12 min read

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells · 1895

Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.

2,335-word summary · 10 min read

The Scorch Trials

James Dashner · 2010

Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches.

2,097-word summary · 9 min read

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel · 2014

After a flu empties the world, a traveling troupe plays Shakespeare for small towns linked by one dead actor.

2,480-word summary · 11 min read