Dystopain book stack + The Shallows Of all the dystopian texts I’ve taught to my grade 11 and grade 12 English classes, none has been so impactful on students as Ray Bradbury’s prescient novella, Fahrenheit 451, with its volatile protagonist, the fireman Montag. I find it to be a good mix of reading length, density (its style is quite poetic and uses imagery in fascinating ways), and real world relevance. It’s more personal than George Orwell’s 1984, which has extended discou