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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Daggermouth
Secrets of the First School (Edinburgh Nights #5)
Ashes (Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales #2)
The Hollowed (Project Virion, #1)
Darling Diana (Blackstem Universe #1)
How We Survive
The Merge
Coldwire (Coldwire, #1)
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)
Heavy Metal Lover
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Daggermouth
Tilt
The Poppy Fields
Dating After the End of the World
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport)
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
Nuclear War: A Scenario
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
The People's Library
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
A Visit to the Husband Archive (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
YA Dystopia Novels
1,900 books — 11,274 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)
678 books — 1,052 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
535 books — 2,126 voters
A New Earth by Eckhart TolleWay of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan MillmanWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Thought Provoking
2,877 books — 1,492 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)

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