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Teens & Young Adults
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding’s compelling story about a group of very ordinary...
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Adults
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy)
by Margaret Atwood
The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future — from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.
Snowman,...
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Teens & Young Adults Adults
I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson
This bestselling classic tale of the last man on Earth by Richard Matheson — one of genre literature's most honored storytellers became the basis for a major motion picture starring Will Smith.
Robert Neville is the last living man...
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Adults
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham
The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.”
What if...
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Adults
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is his masterpiece. From the author of The Doors of Perception,...
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Teens & Young Adults
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe Series)
by Neal Shusterman
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the...
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Teens & Young Adults
American War
by Omar El Akkad
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed...
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Teens & Young Adults
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times).
When global climate...
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Teens & Young Adults
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains...