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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 227 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,080,090 ratings — published 2008
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1984 1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,601,457 ratings — published 1948
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 182 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,238,296 ratings — published 2009
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 176 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,792,212 ratings — published 2010
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Divergent (Divergent, #1) Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 160 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,429,513 ratings — published 2011
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The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,486,884 ratings — published 1985
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Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,907,333 ratings — published 1953
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Brave New World Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,112,107 ratings — published 1932
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Insurgent (Divergent, #2) Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 117 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,637,981 ratings — published 2012
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The Giver (Giver, #1) The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,851,018 ratings — published 1993
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Allegiant (Divergent, #3) Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 94 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,152,852 ratings — published 2013
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Animal Farm Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,668,091 ratings — published 1945
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,321,407 ratings — published 2011
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The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1) The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,714,263 ratings — published 2009
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.00 — 291,207 ratings — published 2003
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Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.85 — 881,316 ratings — published 2005
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The Road The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,060,537 ratings — published 2006
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Uglies (Uglies, #1) Uglies (Uglies, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.84 — 711,954 ratings — published 2005
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Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,250,970 ratings — published 1954
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Station Eleven Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.07 — 629,966 ratings — published 2014
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Matched (Matched, #1) Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.62 — 818,025 ratings — published 2010
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0) The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 46 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,238,788 ratings — published 2020
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The Selection (The Selection, #1) The Selection (The Selection, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,787,976 ratings — published 2012
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Legend (Legend, #1) Legend (Legend, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.15 — 568,815 ratings — published 2011
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Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.23 — 283,273 ratings — published 2012
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.09 — 522,950 ratings — published 1968
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Delirium (Delirium, #1) Delirium (Delirium, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.95 — 480,591 ratings — published 2011
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Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,194,200 ratings — published 2015
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The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2) The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.90 — 658,145 ratings — published 2010
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A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.00 — 780,994 ratings — published 1962
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The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, #3) The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.78 — 508,076 ratings — published 2011
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.19 — 278,788 ratings — published 1993
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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,264,640 ratings — published 2011
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.27 — 865,675 ratings — published 2014
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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,022,889 ratings — published 2012
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The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.20 — 440,562 ratings — published 2019
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Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5) Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 31 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,178,495 ratings — published 2025
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The Elite (The Selection, #2) The Elite (The Selection, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.94 — 883,500 ratings — published 2013
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Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.32 — 427,244 ratings — published 2016
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.07 — 134,370 ratings — published 2009
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The One (The Selection, #3) The One (The Selection, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.14 — 788,157 ratings — published 2014
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The Host (The Host, #1) The Host (The Host, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,053,682 ratings — published 2008
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V for Vendetta V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.26 — 327,395 ratings — published 1990
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The Man in the High Castle (Vintage) The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
by (shelved 28 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.59 — 239,598 ratings — published 1962
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Blindness Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.18 — 347,532 ratings — published 1995
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Pretties (Uglies, #2) Pretties (Uglies, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.83 — 281,762 ratings — published 2005
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We We (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.88 — 115,779 ratings — published 1924
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The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1) The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.00 — 482,458 ratings — published 2013
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Pandemonium (Delirium, #2) Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.02 — 246,565 ratings — published 2012
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The Long Walk The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.00 — 293,349 ratings — published 1979
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Jorge Luis Borges
“This City," I thought, "is so horrific that its mere existence, the mere fact of its having endured — even in the middle of a secret desert — pollutes the past and the future and somehow compromises the stars. So long as this City endures, no one in the world can ever be happy or courageous." I do not want to describe it; a chaos of heterogeneous words, the body of a tiger or a bull pullulating with teeth, organs, and heads monstrously yoked together yet hating each other — those might, perhaps, be approximate images.”
Jorge Luis Borges , El inmortal

Scott Kaelen
“Moses threw the spent cigarette butt to the ground. It bounced once then lay still. A lazy wisp of smoke drifted towards the reaching shadows. He pushed himself to his feet and brushed flakes of grit from the seat of his jeans. Stuffing his hands in his pockets, he moved away from the pipe and began to negotiate a route down the alley. A rivulet of cans, wrappers and remnants of kebabs dotted the ground like flotsam; the waste of nights past, discarded by the nameless, faceless masses marking their territories with futile gestures. Oh, sure, the trash was still emptied these days – there were still garbage men around, but it just delayed the inevitable, prolonging the agony of a tired and dying world.”
Scott Kaelen, Moses Garrett

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