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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The Once and Future Me
The Island of Last Things
Automatic Noodle
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
A Mother's Guide to the Apocalypse
Sunbirth
The Hungry Gods
One Yellow Eye
The Memory Hunters (The Consecrated, #1)
Soulmatch
The Bloodless Queen
Roots & Rubble
Simplicity
Ancient Warlord (Ancients Rising, #10)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Fearful (The Powerless Trilogy, #3.5)
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
The Inheritance (Breach Wars, #1)
The Poppy Fields
Tilt
Automatic Noodle
Kingdom of Tomorrow (Book of Arden, #1)
Absolute Superman, Vol. 1: Last Dust of Krypton
Vera, or Faith
The School for Good Mothers
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)
462 books — 1,178 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
525 books — 2,127 voters

Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireHopeless by Colleen HooverMaybe Someday by Colleen HooverThe Edge of Never by J.A. RedmerskiAlways by Kindle Alexander
2014 Must Reads
2,028 books — 2,024 voters
A New Earth by Eckhart TolleWay of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan MillmanThe Beasts of Success by Jasun EtherWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Thought Provoking
2,828 books — 1,456 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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