Tuesday, May 15, 2007

3M's List

My list for the Dystopian Challenge:

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Messenger by Lois Lowry
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Never Let Me Go by K. Ishiguro

Bonus/Alternates that I probably won't find time for but would like to read are:

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Children of Men by P.D. James
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

3 comments:

Michelle Fluttering Butterflies said...

I really enjoyed Never Let Me Go, I think you'll like it...

Lisa said...

I picked up Gathering Blue at the library yesterday. I have to know what happens after The Giver!

Thomas Hogglestock said...

Oryx and Crake is amazing. My fear is that the future will be some hideous combination of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. After all isn't the religious zeolotry of Handmaid's Tale and in its current form--those that don't believe in evolution/science--helping to lead us to a global environemnt like the one in Oryx and Crake?