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
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
Cold Days by Jim  ButcherKing of Thorns by Mark  LawrenceA Perfect Blood by Kim HarrisonFair Game by Patricia BriggsTricked by Kevin Hearne
Science Fiction & Fantasy Titles for 2012!
646 books — 1,420 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica RothAllegiant by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
What we've read so far in...2014
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Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. JensenThe Young Elites by Marie LuThe Iron Trial by Holly BlackSnow Like Ashes by Sara RaaschThe Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
First In Series (2014)
676 books — 1,050 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryDivergent by Veronica RothBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,654 books — 25,870 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
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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