Dystopic Books

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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 228 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,791,729 ratings — published 2008
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 184 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,106,747 ratings — published 2009
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1984 1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,381,801 ratings — published 1949
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 176 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,677,586 ratings — published 2010
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Divergent (Divergent, #1) Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 161 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,346,968 ratings — published 2011
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The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,389,540 ratings — published 1985
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Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 137 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,795,927 ratings — published 1953
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Brave New World Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,057,645 ratings — published 1932
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Insurgent (Divergent, #2) Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 117 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,614,525 ratings — published 2012
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The Giver (The Giver, #1) The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,781,235 ratings — published 1993
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Allegiant (Divergent, #3) Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 94 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,135,684 ratings — published 2013
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Animal Farm Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,483,288 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 4.23 — 1,289,198 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 4.05 — 1,666,655 ratings — published 2009
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.00 — 285,830 ratings — published 2003
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Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.85 — 842,210 ratings — published 2005
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The Road The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,025,766 ratings — published 2006
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Station Eleven Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.07 — 606,208 ratings — published 2014
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Matched (Matched, #1) Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.62 — 813,354 ratings — published 2010
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Uglies (Uglies, #1) Uglies (Uglies, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.84 — 706,151 ratings — published 2005
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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 45 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,143,842 ratings — published 2020
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Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,170,954 ratings — published 1954
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The Selection (The Selection, #1) The Selection (The Selection, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,746,654 ratings — published 2012
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Legend (Legend, #1) Legend (Legend, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.15 — 561,522 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 — 272,286 ratings — published 2012
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Delirium (Delirium, #1) Delirium (Delirium, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.95 — 478,385 ratings — published 2011
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.09 — 508,003 ratings — published 1968
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Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,157,928 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 3.89 — 637,543 ratings — published 2010
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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 — 496,217 ratings — published 2011
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A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.00 — 764,695 ratings — published 1962
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.20 — 256,549 ratings — published 1993
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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 — 735,296 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 — 1,006,046 ratings — published 2012
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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,200,973 ratings — published 2011
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Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.32 — 406,459 ratings — published 2016
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,432 ratings — published 2009
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Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games) Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
by (shelved 29 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.51 — 956,485 ratings — published 2025
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The Elite (The Selection, #2) The Elite (The Selection, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.94 — 864,768 ratings — published 2013
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V for Vendetta V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.26 — 323,793 ratings — published 1990
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The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.20 — 417,569 ratings — published 2019
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The One (The Selection, #3) The One (The Selection, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.14 — 771,031 ratings — published 2014
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The Host (The Host, #1) The Host (The Host, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,046,151 ratings — published 2008
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Blindness Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.18 — 334,183 ratings — published 1995
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Pretties (Uglies, #2) Pretties (Uglies, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.83 — 279,147 ratings — published 2005
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The Man in the High Castle The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.59 — 233,751 ratings — published 1962
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We We (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as dystopic)
avg rating 3.88 — 111,231 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 — 478,421 ratings — published 2013
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Pandemonium (Delirium, #2) Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.02 — 245,433 ratings — published 2012
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The Long Walk The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as dystopic)
avg rating 4.02 — 264,928 ratings — published 1978
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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

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

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