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HI omg!!! Welcome to our much-anticipated dystopian quest!!

In these wild unprecedented times we live in, but even since being a very disillusioned child, I loved to read dystopian literature. Sure, I do enjoy a good cozy read, too, but these books really make me think and feel seen. So this quest is really for everyone who has been told that they're overreacting to the news, because these authors clearly took a look at what was going on in the time they wrote their books and thought, "I'm going to take this ideology to the furthest logical conclusion, and I bet you it's not going to look so different from what we actually have going on around here."

Like many of you, I really hungered for a dystopian literature quest, and so when I became a TC, I started working on it right away. This was a labor of love for me, I considered 173 different books to get us down to this core initial set of 40 books. I have a long list of books that I am hoping to eventually add, but I also would love to get your recommendations, please feel free to add those to this thread.

In working on the quest, I learned a lot about the different types of dystopias we see represented in literature, and I will be making a post explaining those soon as well as which types each book presents (some are combos, which is fun!), once everyone gets to take a look around! I did make the conscious choice to avoid books that were purely post-apocalyptic, though those are often grouped with dystopian works. Instead, this quest will focus on books that present societies - some are crumbling, some are thriving, some are insular mini societies set against the outside world - but avoid those books that are comprised of a natural disaster, and the protagonists not knowing if they are the only people left alive and wandering around, if that makes sense!

Welcome, welcome, and if you'd like, go ahead and share what brings you to dystopian literature, if you have any favorites or recommendations, and anything else you'd like to share with the group! I'm excited to quest here by your side!!

Ok Pagebound— I’m hoping someone can do me a solid. I really want to read a specific type of romance book with a unique trope. I either need good reccomendation or I’m going to have to write this damn story myself…

I want a book that is technically “second chance romance”, but the couple never actually broke up. Instead, they were torn apart/kept apart by something outside of their control. I want intense yearning and a reunion. Even better if they got together when they were young, were taken away from each other, and then reunite in adulthood…

I guess it should give Romeo and Juliet vibes (but… no death, if we can avoid it…)

DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THIS EXISTS??

Does it get better? Cause I’m bored 😑

I got selected for my second ever ARC (and my first trad publish ARC) this week and it made me feel SO warm inside! There’s such a special feeling to it.

I have been asked to wait until a specific date to release my review, so I’m going to keep my own ARC title hush hush, but I would love to hear your stories about getting selected for ARCS! How did you feel? Was it a random choice or an author you adore? Do you have the physical copy with that special lil legal text on the top? Tell me everything!