Anastasia Krupnik, the first installment in Lowry's series of novels about a "crackle-brained, fizzle-headed, freckle-faced dynamo," presents an atmosphere that starkly contrasts with that of The Giver. Can you spot any connections between the two?

A reviewer of The Giver likened it to Margaret Atwood's adult novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985), a dystopian story where women's roles are restricted to either wives or child-bearers.

In the nineteenth century, there were numerous attempts to establish Utopian communities. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance (1852) is inspired by his personal experiences with one such endeavor.

Any story set in the future is inevitably compared to George Orwell's 1949 classic, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The Republic, Plato's famous depiction of a political Utopia, was written in the 4th century B.C.