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
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenHopeless by Colleen HooverDivergent by Veronica RothFallen Too Far by Abbi Glines
What we've read so far in 2013...
8,050 books — 2,636 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)
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 Young Adult Dystopian Novels
592 books — 2,646 voters
The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Martian by Andy WeirWe Were Liars by E. Lockhart
What we've read so far in...2015
9,710 books — 2,058 voters

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What to read in summer?
4,066 books — 1,515 voters
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YA Books Far Better than Twilight
3,234 books — 4,901 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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