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
Born For Marble  (The Cradled Common, #3)
MindWorks: An Uncanny Compendium of Short Fiction
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)
First
Local Heavens
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

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!
1,219 books — 2,754 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
Best Dystopian Books for Teens
525 books — 2,129 voters
The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Martian by Andy WeirWe Were Liars by E. Lockhart
What we've read so far in...2015
9,715 books — 2,063 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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