Theme+-+Deterioration+in+society

Bodies and soul / David Hill Box / Penelope Todd Brother in the land / Robert Swindell Children of men / P.D. James The city of Ember / Jeanne DuPrau Deep fried / Bernard Beckett Feed / M.T. Anderson This is future fiction but it seems to me in some ways very close! It involves an environment in which information is always and instantly available (the internet no longer needs an external technology but feeds directly into the brain) but as the ease of information access has gone up, the value placed on it has gone down. Schools no longer exist, on the theory that since anything you want to know is readily available anyway, they are unnecessary, and the young people have no structure, no purpose and no interest in anything.
 * Titles reflecting the deterioration of society (or individual against society) **
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Genesis / Bernard Beckett Glax-arena / Gillian Rubenstein House of scorpions / Nancy Farmer How I live now / Meg Rosoff Life as we knew it / Susan Pfeiffer Shows how society deteriorates after a major natural disaster changes earth's climate.

Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The people of Sparks / Jeanne DuPrau <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Riding Tycho / Jan Mark <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The road / Cormac McCarthy <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tomorrow series / John Marsden <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Uglies (and rest of series) / Scott Westerfeld <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Useful idiots / Jan Mark <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The wish kin / Joss Hedley <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Z for Zachariah / Robert O’Brien <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The gathering / Isobelle Carmody <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hunger games / Suzanne Collins <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Brave new world / Aldous Huxley <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lord of the flies / William Golding <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Schindler's list / Thomas Keneally The knife of never letting go / Patrick Ness Big mouth ugly girl / Joyce Carol Oates Animal farm and 1984 / George Orwell The last book in the universe / Rodman Philbrick Goodbye Sarajevo: a true story of courage, love and survival / Atka Reid & H. Schofield The wave / Morton Rhue Unwind / Neil Shusterman The rules of survival / Nancy Werlin