This dystopian tale set in Los Angeles in 2025 centers around Lauren Olamina, a young black woman who flees her community to seek a better life. Lauren suffers from hyperempathy (she feels the pain of others as if it were her own), but dreams of a better world through her religion, Earthseed.
2. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Told in a futuristic slang similar to Russian, this is the dystopian tale of Alex, a juvenile delinquent who thrives on Beethoven and violence. When Alex undergoes psychological rehabilitation for his behavior, the reader is forced to consider the nature of free will.
3. The Adoration of Jenna Fox, by Mary Pearson
When Jenna Fox wakes up from a coma, she has zero memory of the past seventeen years of her life. As she slowly unravels the mystery of her identity, Jenna must come to terms with what it means to be human in an age where science rules.
4. The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier
A deadly virus has killed everyone on Earth, except for Laura Byrd, a wildlife specialist who has been isolated on an expedition to the South Pole. Meanwhile, the newly dead populate “the City”, an earthlike afterworld, where their existence depends on the memories of the living—in other words, on Laura.
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