I need a to find a good award winning novel that I could read for my Grade 12 University level English class. I would like for this novel to be fiction and possibly have to do with something along the lines of sci-fi or the future. I wanted to read "The Road" but it turns out that someone is already reading it. If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them.

A Canticle for Liebowitz--great post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel that is at least as well-regard in terms of literary merit as The Road. Won the 1961 Hugo Award as best sci-fi novel (had to look that up ). It was the only sci-fi book that my AP English teacher let us read for credit way back in the day.

Damn, well that would have been great but the only thing is that it has to be written at a date later then the 1970s

In that case, you could try something by Viktor Pelevin. He's a Russian author who writes sort of in the vein of Joseph Heller (Ctach 22). I like his novel Omon Ra, which is a black comedy about the Soviet space program. It's very good and very funny. And he did win some Russian literary award at one time. If it's got to be an American/British author, Ken Kesey wrote "Sailor Song." It's a post-apocalyptic type book, too. It's not as good as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," but it was a decent read.

By the way, if you like sci-fi, you should read A Canticle for Liebowitz some time anyway. It's a great book.

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

Satirical read about robots messin shit up. I actually read that in 12th grade

This post was edited by Mcchickens on Mar 22 2011 07:53pm