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
Broken Dove (Silver Elite, #2)
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Beneath (Rebirth, #1; Reform, #0)
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
The Last Contract of Isako
Dating After the End of the World
The Poppy Fields
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
Storm Breaker (Storm Breaker, #1)
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
The School for Good Mothers
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzOne Dark Window by Rachel GilligThe Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedVictor's Blessing by Barbara SontheimerWicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan
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Escaping Reality by Lisa Renee JonesThe 5th Wave by Rick YanceyReal by Katy EvansBranded by Abi KetnerThe Law of Attraction by N.M. Silber
New Series (2013)
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Neuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganThe Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Best of Cyberpunk
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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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