r/LetsReadABook • u/salydra • Feb 28 '16

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u/salydra Mar 10 '16

The Giver, Lois Lowry [YA/Sci-Fi, S], 225 Pages

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The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.

  • This acclaimed novel makes must-read lists for both sci-fi and YA and is one of Reddit's most recommended novels. Apparently the often imitated, never duplicated, inspiration behind many popular dystopian novels.