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March to Madness: Dystopian Style

Michele Laikowski

March to Madness: Dystopian Style

& MARCH TO MADNESS: DYSTOPIAN STYLE CHAMPION 2025 is … The Hunger Games

& it all came down to these two

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Margaret Atwood

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3.9

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Final (Destination) Four

Game 1

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Divergent (Divergent Series #1)

Veronica Roth

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4.6

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Game 2

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Lois Lowry

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4.3

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Margaret Atwood

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3.9

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The Losers of the Erased Eight

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Ready Player One: A Novel

Ernest Cline

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4.4

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1984

George Orwell

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4.3

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Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Ray Bradbury

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4.3

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Pierce Brown

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4.5

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The Losers of the Scared Sixteen

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Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

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4.2

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The Stand

Stephen King

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4.4

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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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4.3

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Philip K. Dick

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1.5

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Octavia E. Butler

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4.5

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Woman on the Edge of Time: A Novel

Marge Piercy

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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

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3.8

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The Losers of the First & Second Rounds

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Little Brother & Homeland

Cory Doctorow

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The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4

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Laila Lalami

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4.3

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Diane Cook

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Hugh Howey

5

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Vladimir Sorokin

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4.8

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Cormac McCarthy

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3.8

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Jack London

4

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Omar El Akkad

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Simon Stålenhag

5

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Ling Ma

4

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Paula Lichtarowicz

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Jacqueline Harpman

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4.4

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Justin Cronin

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4.1

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Dry

Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

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4.8

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It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis

5

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Leni Zumas

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Jessamine Chan

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4.2

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Alan Moore

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4.4

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Michael Grant

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4.7

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Sophie Mackintosh

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Marie Lu

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4.5

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They: A Sequence of Unease

Kay Dick

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Neal Stephenson

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Neal Shusterman

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4.9

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Rafael Bernal

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James Dashner

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4.5

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Yoko Ogawa

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4.7

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Russell Hoban

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Stephen King

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4.4

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William T. Vollmann

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Margaret Atwood

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4.2

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Paul Lynch

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Eiren Caffall

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4.1

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William Gibson

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4.4

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Tatyana Tolstaya

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William Golding

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3.9

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P. D. James

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Robert Harris

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Philip Roth

4

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Celeste Ng

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4.2

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

5

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Sequoia Nagamatsu

4

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Dave Eggers

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Louise Erdrich

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Nnedi Okorafor

5

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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4.1

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Leif Enger

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4.6

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Naomi Alderman

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Agustina Bazterrica

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4.1

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