Top Ten Tuesday! Favourite Dystopians

Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by the lovely girls at The Broke and the Bookish. Every week there is a different topic and we will (try to) list our preferences! This week was a freebie so we chose to list: Best Dystopians in no particular order... 

1. Angelfall It is the apocalypse. It has been 6 weeks since the Angels (Yes, as in angels from Heaven) have been sent to wipe out the human race. After the Angels kidnap Penryn’s wheelchair bound sister, she is forced to side with the enemy - the very hot uh attractive angel - Raffe. They soon form an unlikely friendship and begin to fall in more ways than one.

**WARNING: This book has a few disturbing features and scenes which probably aren't suitable for anyone in year 7 to 9.**

2. Divergent In a world where people are divided by their strongest characteristics, the fraction they choose determines their life. However some are not born to conform to one trait. They are born to diverge, a power perceived to be fatal to all of humanity. 

3. Gone Imagine everyone over the age of 14 just disappears one day. Gone. With all the adults suddenly gone it’s a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...

4. Matched Everyone has a partner, everyone is matched. Cassia lives in a world where the government has controls everyone and everything – what you eat, who you marry and even when you die. Cassia is a Matched with Xavier, her best friend but what happens when she starts to doubt her society and starts to fall for the wrong guy? 

5. The Darkest Minds Half of American children have died from a mysterious disease. Unfortunately those remaining haven’t fared much better as they survive with mysterious abilities. Abilities that scare the government who attempt to lock them up, however, there is always room to escape…

6. The Hunger Games We all know this one, a girl Katniss volunteers in place of sister to enter into the Hunger Games a yearly annual tournament for kids aged… to fight to the death. We know this will be in everyone’s Top Ten dystopian’s, but regardless its still a great read and the Catching Fire film is released at the end of the year.

7. The Knife of Never Letting Go Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Todd is stuck in a town where you are never really alone, until one day he finds paradise - there is no Noise. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden -- a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.

8. Under the Never Sky The world is no longer what is used to be, Earth is now ravaged by Aether storms, destructive electrical currents that rip through the sky. These storms threaten the ‘peaceful’ inhabitants of those living in two post-apocalyptic societies, one primitive and the other a futuristic, artificial world. See what happens when two individuals from these rival worlds meet, Perry and Aria, who couldn’t be more different as they discover they have more in common than they first believed…

9. Unwind A futuristic society in which you sure don’t want to be an ‘unwanted teen’ as you’ll most likely become an ‘unwound’. Basically a nice way of saying that you’ll be shipped away to have your organs harvested for someone in ‘need’ – ‘need’ meaning someone who prefers your green eyes over their brown ones. Therefore it’s only natural that some teens aren’t cool with sacrificing themselves for the good of nation…

10. Uglies 

A world in which everyone is born an ‘ugly’, but luckily once you turn 16 the amazing happens!

1. You undergo a mandatory operation to become an exceedingly attractive ‘pretty’.

2. Next, you are then transferred to an uber groovy society in which the only job requirement is have fun.