Recs if you like Legend...

For when your PB friends share the same name(s) as a book character! (See pinned comment for master list! Please feel free to chime in if you want to be added and/or if you want a different book assigned to you; I didn’t want to step on toes and add people I haven’t really talked to without their permission ❤️ also my brain is smooth and I forget book character names all the time lol)

[BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE]

Dystopia-core library books you inhaled in middle school on the bus so you could talk about them during lunch period.

Or: books that had an entire generation of kids convinced they were going to develop powers and be taken to a secret government facility

Dystopian matchmaking: romance and love stories that happen against all odds

A woman's place is in the revolution. Featuring magical/gifted women who disobey the powers that be and rage against the machine.

Books and reading are political.

the staples of the book community on youtube in the early to mid 2010s.

that are actually incredible and completely slept on

also I use fantasy lightly, there's some dystopian and sci-fi in here too :)

Based on my favorite podcast Rereading the Revolution. The hosts reread and recap popular 2000s-2010s novels from Divergent to Looking for Alaska.

The list is in order of oldest episodes to most recent. I will try and update when new episodes drop.

So take a walk down memory lane with these nostalgic picks, or find something new that sparks your inner teenager! Please give the podcast a listen, I think they’re a great bookish podcast to support

"an imagined world or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic. many of the people lead dehumanized and fearful lives"

Dystopian young adult books

syllabus for the eager scholars of rereading the revolution aka the books that shaped teenagers from 2005 to 2015 (based on the books read & discussed on the podcast by Kellie & Daphne – regular episodes, without bonus )

The top 100 best books of the 2010’s as voted for by Goodreads members

Top five: 5) The Martian 4) Gone Girl 3) Divergent 2) Mockingjay

1. The Fault in Our Stars

best sellers and other peak books from middle school era for those of us that aren't quite millennials but are also definitely not core gen z

If you're someone like me, who doesn't love reading Adult books, these are a list of my favourites, both popular and not, for you to enjoy!

The books that were quoted, GIFd, and obsessed over on everyone’s favorite social media site.

a list of first books in a quadrilogy - just in case anyone might need them for book challenges like HRCYED 👀 (this also includes quadrilogies that have additional novellas or got prequels etc, because they were originally four books)

Books that can be thought as mirrors to what’s happening in the world rn ❤️‍🔥mostly fantasy and dystopian books. recs are welcome and appreciated!

I wish I had amnesia so I could read these books for the first time again.

The OG reads from 2010s, iykyk.