Dystopia

Dystopia is a form of literature that explores social and political structures. It is a creation of a nightmare world - unlike its opposite, Utopia, which is an ideal world.

Dystopia is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It often features multiple kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions, and a state of constant warfare or violence.

Many novels combine Dystopia and Utopia, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of the two poss
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We Burned So Bright
Release Me (Shatter Me: The New Republic, #2)
The Verdant Cage
Honor & Heresy
The Gravewood (The Gravewood, #1)
Wife Shaped Bodies
The Bloody and the Damned
Sanctuary
Piper at the Gates of Dusk (The New World, #1)
Certainty
Your Behavior Will Be Monitored
Survival Show
The Killing Spell
The Boyfriend Academy
Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
Beneath (Rebirth, #1; Reform, #0)
The Poppy Fields
Storm Breaker (Storm Breaker, #1)
Dating After the End of the World
The Gravewood (The Gravewood, #1)
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
The School for Good Mothers
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
1984
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
The Handmaid's Tale
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)

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