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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For Human Use
The People's Library
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
After the Fall
The Forest on the Edge of Time
The Hospital at the End of the World
This Safe Darkness (Sols & Shades)
Eradication: A Fable
Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur
Free for All #1
The Whims of Love (Monstrous Whims, #3)
We Call Them Witches
A Wild Radiance
The Night Ship
Until I Die: A Dark Dystopian Romance
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
The Polymorph
Operation Bounce House
Dating After the End of the World
The Poppy Fields
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
Beneath (Conform, #0)
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
The School for Good Mothers
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Shroud
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenHopeless by Colleen HooverDivergent by Veronica RothFallen Too Far by Abbi Glines
What we've read so far in 2013...
8,104 books — 2,697 voters
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
1,138 books — 2,990 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
2,020 books — 2,024 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dystopia!
1,226 books — 2,771 voters

Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. JensenThe Young Elites by Marie LuThe Iron Trial by Holly BlackSnow Like Ashes by Sara RaaschThe Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
First In Series (2014)
679 books — 1,053 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyDivergent by Veronica RothFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Dystopian Books
529 books — 1,054 voters

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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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