Welcome to my list of favorite science fiction books!!
For the top ten, I’m including a summary of the story. For the rest I left that
off in the interest of not having too long of an entry here.
The Top Ten
1. Unwind- In future where teens can be destroyed through a process known as unwinding, three kids form different walks of life fight to survive and change the world they live in.
2. Delirium- Love is illegal in Lena’s world and
not a problem once you get the vaccine, but she meets Alex and falls in love
before she gets the shot.
3. Blood Red Road – Twins Saba and Lugh are
separated when he is kidnapped and she must make a terrible journey through the
Dustlands to find and rescue him from being a sacrifice by the bloody ruler.
4. Hunger Games- I think everyone knows Katniss
sacrifices herself for her younger sister in the Hunger Games where she becomes
embroiled in an uprising and a love triangle.
5. Matched – Soon to be a movie, this story is
about arranged marriages and Cassia who falls for someone else but does love
her match because he is her best friend.
6. Legend – A future America torn apart is represented
by Day and June on opposite sides who fall in love and discover a horrifying
truth behind the disease that plagues their society.
7. Partials- The robots known as partials that
humans created evolved and rebelled and now a small band of survivors, led by Kira,
try to find the cure to whatever kills all the newborns.
8. Life As We Knew It- A family that survives the
disasters resulting from the moon being knocked out of orbit by a meteor
chronicles their struggles to survive.
9. Girl in the Arena- In a world that worships
arena fights like we do with football, Lyn, a teenage girl, enters to avoid a
marriage to the man who killed her stepfather by trying to beat him.
10. Uglies- Tally can’t wait for her surgery to
become pretty until she befriends a girl who is opposed to it and runs away to
a group of rebels the government is trying to track down.
Others I really love:
Ender's Game
Fire and Flood
Epic
Variant
Never Let Me Go
How I Live Now
Adoration of Jenna Fox
For Darkness Shows the Stars
The Compound
Academy 7
Glow
Birthmarked
Shipbreaker
1984
Fog Diver
Check back in October for my favorite horror stories!
