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Take me to your Leader! (Adult Reading Challenge)

April 3-May 14
Step out of this world and read three Science Fiction books! Get ideas for your book to read from each of the themed lists.  Or read one of your own choosing.  
One of each of a Dystopian novel, a Time Travel novel, and a Space Western. 
You could win a gift card
Dystopian Novels
Nineteen Eight-Four by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burges
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillip Dick
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Stand by Stephen King
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonngut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Space Opera/Western
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planetby Becky Chambers
Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
Dark Run by Mike Brooks
The Cold Between by Elizabeth Bonesteel
Coming Home by Jack McDevitt
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

Time Travel
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle 
All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Ghost Country by Patrick Lee
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Clair North
The Langoliers by Stephen King
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchet
Time and Again by Jack Finney
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis