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
Neurovance
Red Star Rebels
Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur
Free for All #1
The Whims of Love (Monstrous Whims, #3)
We Call Them Witches
A Wild Radiance
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Operation Bounce House
The Polymorph
Dating After the End of the World
The Poppy Fields
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Shroud
Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
The School for Good Mothers
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica RothAllegiant by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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9,435 books — 2,085 voters
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)
1,067 books — 2,312 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!
1,223 books — 2,770 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
536 books — 2,128 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)
477 books — 1,190 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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