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YA Dystopian

  • Ten years ago this month, Ally Condie’s "Matched" was published, launching the dystopian YA trilogy that includes "Crossed" and "Reached."Matched quickly…
  • The past few weeks have been pretty hot – in the high 90’s, so imagine if that’s how it was all year round, and if the air was so bad, you had to wear a…
  • New York Times Bestselling author Kass Morgan took the world by storm with her dystopian novel The 100. The fans loved it so much in fact, that the CW…
  • When we think about the beginning of the end, Wyoming doesn’t seem like it would be at the epicenter. But in Anna Schumacher’s End Times, a small oil boom…
  • Chris Weitz has been entertaining teens for years with his movies American Pie, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and About A Boy. Now he’s turned his…
  • When Marissa Meyer debuted the first Lunar Chronicles novel, she took everything we thought we know about the fairytales of our childhood, and turned them…
  • When Veronica Roth began writing in her dorm room at Northwestern University, she had no idea that a year after graduating college she’d be a New York…
  • It’s been a long journey for Lauren Oliver. Not only is she the co-owner of the literary development company Paper Lantern Lit, she is the master behind…
  • In Marie Lu’s book Legend, she created a dystopian world there the United States fractured in two, and a plague ravaged the upper half. Our heroes Day and…
  • Antony John’s novel Elemental is a dystopian treasure hunt of epic proportions as the reader is guided by a group of teens trying to find out what really…