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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The Merge
Coldwire (Coldwire, #1)
Slow Gods
A Love Story from the End of the World: Stories
Opposite World
Born For Marble  (The Cradled Common, #3)
MindWorks: An Uncanny Compendium of Short Fiction
All Because of Me (The All Because #1)
Gold Sector (Drakon-Clan Series #1)
Nyx (Mate's Mark Book 3)
Heavy Metal Lover
Barnacle
Conform (Conform, #1)
A Guardian and a Thief
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Conform (Conform, #1)
Dating After the End of the World
The Poppy Fields
Tilt
Daggermouth
A Visit to the Husband Archive (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuireNever Too Far by Abbi GlinesEntwined with You by Sylvia DayReckless by S.C. StephensBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
2013 New Adult Releases
1,135 books — 2,988 voters
Neuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganThe Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Best of Cyberpunk
371 books — 1,182 voters

Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireHopeless by Colleen HooverMaybe Someday by Colleen HooverThe Edge of Never by J.A. RedmerskiAlways by Kindle Alexander
2014 Must Reads
2,018 books — 2,022 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
YA Dystopia Novels
1,790 books — 11,250 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica RothAllegiant by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
What we've read so far in...2014
9,384 books — 2,040 voters

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
1984
The Handmaid's Tale
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1)

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