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- The 5th Wave (3)
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By Rick Yancey -
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- The Body Finder (41)
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By Kimberly Derting -
Finished on May 21, 2013 
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- The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (37)
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By Michelle Hodkin -
Finished on May 19, 2013
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- Across the Universe (151)
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By Beth Revis -
Finished on May 18, 2013
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- City of Bones (388)
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By Cassandra Clare -
Finished on May 15, 2013
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- Legend (35)
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By Marie Lu -
Finished on May 10, 2013
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- Popco (238)
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By Scarlett Thomas -
Finished on May 5, 2013
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- Pandemonium (112)
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By Lauren Oliver -
Finished on Apr 19, 2013
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- The Book Thief (1244)
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By Markus Zusak -
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- Instructions for a Heatwave (3)
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By Maggie O'Farrell -
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- Push (94)
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By Sapphire -
Finished on Feb 24, 2013
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- The Handmaid's Tale. Margaret Atwood (599)
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By Margaret Atwood -
Finished on Feb 22, 2013
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- Accabadora (7667)
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By Michela Murgia -
Finished on Feb 15, 2013
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- Our Tragic Universe (73)
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By Scarlett Thomas -
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- Snowdrops (51)
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By Andrew Miller -
Abandoned on Feb 13, 2013
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The Handmaid's Tale. Margaret Atwood
I have had the immeasurable pleasure to read several dystopian novels over the last few years and I have always found myself thinking that each one of them had perfectly succeeded in the process of representing different aspects of the discomfort and corruption which swarm about in our society. Howe ... (continue)
I have had the immeasurable pleasure to read several dystopian novels over the last few years and I have always found myself thinking that each one of them had perfectly succeeded in the process of representing different aspects of the discomfort and corruption which swarm about in our society. However, I believe there is a great gap between those novels and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: while reading books such as Oliver's Delirium and Collins' The Hunger Games, I felt like the scenarios depicted in them represented a possibility, a slight but, nonetheless, creepy possibility of what could actually happen to the world we live in. Atwood's story, on the contrary, felt so unbelievably real and authentic that I, sometimes, had to close the book and think through what I had just read. The world described in The Handmaid's Tale is not a mere possibility, it is the exact depiction of where our society is currently heading.