No other genre has been influenced by the emergence of YA fiction quite like dystopian literature. In this episode, Megan and Emily join Ian to compare recent dystopian contributions aimed at young adults like Divergent and The Hunger Games to 20th century classics like 1984 and Lord of the Flies.

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• The How to Eat an Elephant podcast

  
  



• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

  
  



• The Mazerunner by James Dashner

  
  



• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

  
  



• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

  
  



• Divergent by Veronica Roth

  
  



• 1984 by George Orwell

  
  



• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  
  



• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  
  



• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  
  



• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

  
  



• Utopia by Sir Thomas More

  
  



• Plato’s Republic

  
  



• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

  
  



• The Giver by Lois Lowry

  
  



• Red Rising by Pierce Brown

  
  



• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

  
  



• Dune by Frank Herbert

  
  



• Foundation by Isaac Asimov

  
  



• The Space/Ransom Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

  
  

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