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
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
Best Dystopian Books for Teens
536 books — 2,129 voters
A New Earth by Eckhart TolleWay of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan MillmanWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Beasts of Success by Jasun EtherInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Thought Provoking
2,928 books — 1,603 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

Cold Days by Jim  ButcherKing of Thorns by Mark  LawrenceA Perfect Blood by Kim HarrisonFair Game by Patricia BriggsTricked by Kevin Hearne
Science Fiction & Fantasy Titles for 2012!
657 books — 1,429 voters
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasRed Queen by Victoria AveyardMermen by Mimi Jean PamfiloffAn Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa TahirSix of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
New Series (2015)
479 books — 1,193 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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