[A Dystopian World - Ongoing Blog]

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[A Dystopian World - Ongoing Blog]

Welcome to my book blog...

 

I am fairly new to reading, I have always enjoyed it but have never really dedicated much time to it. Until last year the only books I had properly read were the Harry Potter series (multiple times), Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak, The Hunger Games and The Hobbit, all when I was a teenager (although I am a self professed Potter-head so HP will always be a regular read for me!). I branched out last year and bought a load of books and now that I have found my genre I cant stop! I love books that take normal every day life and give it a twist, i.e. set in the future, on an alien planet, or the wizarding world! I am particularly drawn to dystopian novels, set in the near future that give commentary on current society and the potential impact of how we live (although I do not limit myself just to this genre, I will read anything that takes my fancy!). I also really enjoy magical fantasy books in which I can be transported to another world!

 

I have never written any kind of blog or reviews before and mostly just want to use this as a way to document my thoughts on the books I read

 

I would also love any book recommendations, dystopian or not, to add to my reading list!

 

Goose

 

Reviewed Books:

--Page 1--

2021

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood

Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken

The Giver - Lois Lowry

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

The Constant Rabbit - Jasper Fforde

In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Anxious People - Fredrik Backman

The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin

--Page 2--

My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell

Bones of Faerie - Jannie Lee Simner

Bunny - Mona Awad

You're Welcome, Universe - Whitney Gardner

1984 - George Orwell

Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones

Arc of a Scythe Trilogy (#1 Scythe, #2 Thunderhead & #3 The Toll) - Neal Shusterman

Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas

Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus Duology #1) - Nicky Drayden

The Choice - Claire Wade

The Unit - Ninni Holmqvist

Divided Kingdom - Rupert Thomson

The Sad Ghost Club - Lize Meddings

--Page 3--

Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach

You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection) – Amor Towles

Tender is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (The Wayfarers Series #1) – Becky Chambers

Emergency Skin (Forward Collection) – N. K. Jemisin

Roxy – Neal Shusterman

2022

Rabbits – Terry Miles

The Wicker King – K. Ancrum

Coraline – Neil Gaiman

Summer Frost (Forward Collection) – Blake Crouch

A Closed and Common Orbit (The Wayfarers Series #2) – Becky Chambers

Symbiosis (Escaping Exodus Duology #2) – Nicky Drayden

The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly – Sun-Mi Hwang

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman

Eliza and her Monsters – Francesca Zappia

The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

--Page 4--

Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson

Heartless – Marissa Meyer

A Court of Thorns and Roses Series (#1 A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2 A Court of Mist and Fury & #3 A Court of Wings and Ruin) – Sarah J. Maas

The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

Keeping It Real – Justina Robson

The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett

Record of a Spaceborn Few (The Wayfarers Series #3) – Becky Chambers

The Year of the Witching – Alexis Henderson

Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik

To Kill a Kingdom – Alexandra Christo

The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix

The Cruel Prince Series (#1 The Cruel Prince, #2 The Wicked King & #3 The Queen of Nothing) – Holly Black

Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine

The Midnight Library – Matt Haig

The Innkeeper Chronicles (#1 Clean Sweep, #2 Sweep in Peace, #3 One Fell Sweep, #4 Sweep of the Blade, #5 Sweep with Me & #6 Sweep of the Heart) – Ilona Andrews

To Be Taught if Fortunate – Becky Chambers

Wings – Aprilynne Pike

The House in the Cerulean Sea – T.J. Klune

--Page 5--

Animal Farm – George Orwell

I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Ian Reid

Magpie – Elizabeth Day

Room – Emma Donoghue

Six of Crows Duology (#1 Six of Crows & #2 Crooked Kingdom) – Leigh Bardugo

Perfectly Preventable Deaths Duology (#1 Perfectly Preventable Deaths & #2 Precious Catastrophe) – Deirdre Sullivan

The Maze Runner - James Dashner

2023

Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller

The School for Good and Evil – Soman Chainani

The Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard

Flawed – Cecelia Ahern

Dorothy Must Die – Danielle Paige

How to Buy a Planet – D. A. Holdsworth

Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett

Payback’s a Witch – Lana Harper

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

--Page 6--

The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

Old Man’s War – John Scalzi

You’d Be Home Now – Kathleen Glasgow

--Page 7--

Legends & Lattes – Travis Baldree

The Luna Chronicles (#1 Cinder, #2 Scarlett, #3 Cress, #4 Winter & #4.5 Stars Above) - Marissa Meyer

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett

The Luminaries - Susan Dennard 

The Tea Dragon Society - Kay O'Neill 

The Time Machine - H. G. Wells

Faeries of the Faultlines - Iris Compiet

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology #1) – Emily Tesh

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance Series #1) – Naomi Novik

Sea Witch – Sarah Henning

The Moss Series (#1 By Ash, Oak and Thorn & #2 By Rowan and Yew) - Melissa Harrison

The Android’s Dream – John Scalzi

--Page 8--

The Last Graduate (The Scholomance Series #2) – Naomi Novik

A Marvellous Light – Freya Marske

The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology #1) – Holly Black

Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher

The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance Series #3) – Naomi Novik

The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham

Five Minds – Guy Morpuss

The Faerie Hounds of York – Arden Powell

The Invisible Library – Genevieve Cogman

Wild Beauty – Anna-Marie McLemore

The One – John Marrs

The Library of the Dead – T. L. Huchu

The Surface Breaks – Louise O’Neill