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)
Your Behavior Will Be Monitored
Certainty
Survival Show
The Killing Spell
The Boyfriend Academy
Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer
Alchemised
Broken Dove (Silver Elite, #2)
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Beneath (Rebirth, #1; Reform, #0)
The Last Contract of Isako
The Poppy Fields
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Dating After the End of the World
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
The Gravewood (The Gravewood, #1)
Storm Breaker (Storm Breaker, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
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
2,021 books — 2,025 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellDivergent by Veronica RothBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Best Dystopian Fiction of All Time
461 books — 1,321 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
9,760 books — 2,152 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 — 2,989 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
540 books — 2,141 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
9,476 books — 2,164 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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