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Best Dystopian Fiction of All Time
Only the best in dystopian fiction, some YA, all AWESOME! Some classics, some brand new.
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,287,146 ratings
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,310,888 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,262,177 ratings
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 4,051,952 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,748,609 ratings
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 3,629,435 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,405,732 ratings
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,751,586 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,349,378 ratings
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Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,603,566 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,456,259 ratings
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Legend (Legend, #1)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 558,197 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,138,161 ratings
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The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,646,955 ratings
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The Stand
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 819,560 ratings
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Uglies (Uglies, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 703,188 ratings
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Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 267,049 ratings
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Matched (Matched, #1)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 811,073 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 500,179 ratings
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Delirium (Delirium, #1)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 477,404 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,010,467 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 824,827 ratings
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 245,875 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 283,383 ratings
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The Fourth Sage (The Circularity Saga #1)
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Stefan Bolz (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 1,127,795 ratings
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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 1,170,501 ratings
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The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 296,193 ratings
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The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset (The Hunger Games, #1-3)
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4.50 avg rating — 232,457 ratings
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Wool (Wool, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 106,529 ratings
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We
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3.88 avg rating — 109,096 ratings
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The Long Walk
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)
4.05 avg rating — 235,564 ratings
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Cloud Atlas
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4.01 avg rating — 264,070 ratings
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Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 244,890 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 757,635 ratings
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)
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Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 221,066 ratings
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Champion (Legend, #3)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 230,966 ratings
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The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)
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Alexandra Bracken (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 204,705 ratings
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The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 631,503 ratings
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The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, #3)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 491,184 ratings
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Prodigy (Legend, #2)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 278,470 ratings
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Shift (Silo, #2)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 146,494 ratings
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Battle Royale
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4.26 avg rating — 83,784 ratings
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Blindness
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4.18 avg rating — 328,557 ratings
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Pretties (Uglies, #2)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 277,926 ratings
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 202,795 ratings
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Specials (Uglies, #3)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 202,614 ratings
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Dust (Silo, #3)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 131,267 ratings
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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 998,056 ratings
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,570 ratings
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Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
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Susan Ee (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 197,691 ratings
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The Old Man and the Wasteland (The Wasteland Saga, #1)
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Nick Cole (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 5,521 ratings
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Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1)
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Veronica Rossi (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 115,197 ratings
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 294,646 ratings
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The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 95,811 ratings
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Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 41,002 ratings
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Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 205,991 ratings
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Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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Victoria Aveyard (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,143,168 ratings
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The Running Man
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)
3.89 avg rating — 152,813 ratings
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 131,531 ratings
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 685,916 ratings
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Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 44,784 ratings
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Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)
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Lauren DeStefano (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 100,731 ratings
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 381,014 ratings
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Feed (Newsflesh, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 61,065 ratings
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
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3.96 avg rating — 16,751 ratings
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The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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The Silence Dividend: Science Fiction Dystopian
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Man in the High Castle
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3.59 avg rating — 230,941 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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Kiera Cass (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,728,588 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,275,361 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 343,145 ratings
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On the Beach
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3.98 avg rating — 48,581 ratings
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The Plague
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4.02 avg rating — 304,034 ratings
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This Perfect Day
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3.99 avg rating — 10,640 ratings
score: 869,
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The Testing (The Testing, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 81,803 ratings
score: 837,
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 653,616 ratings
score: 825,
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,585 ratings
score: 811,
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 177,948 ratings
score: 802,
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Anthem
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3.61 avg rating — 164,939 ratings
score: 764,
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The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
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Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 105,225 ratings
score: 736,
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
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Mary E. Pearson (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 52,847 ratings
score: 731,
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The People of Sparks (Book of Ember, #2)
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3.70 avg rating — 63,569 ratings
score: 715,
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The Minority Report
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3.84 avg rating — 24,415 ratings
score: 712,
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The Demon Seekers, Book One
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John Shors (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 258 ratings
score: 700,
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Project Mayhem (Project Butterfly, #2)
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K.A. Angliss (Goodreads Author)
4.90 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 697,
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Revealing Eden (Save the Pearls, #1)
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Victoria Foyt (Goodreads Author)
1.99 avg rating — 996 ratings
score: 688,
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Alas, Babylon
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4.09 avg rating — 48,036 ratings
score: 658,
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When the Sleeper Wakes
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3.35 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
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The Reader of Acheron
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Walter Rhein (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Before The Silence: Prequel to The Silence Dividend
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 356,895 ratings
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The Wasteland Saga (The Wasteland Saga #1-3)
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Nick Cole (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 905 ratings
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The Dog Stars
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3.95 avg rating — 70,418 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 245,830 ratings
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The Iron Heel
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3.77 avg rating — 12,098 ratings
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.13 avg rating — 85,366 ratings
score: 563,
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World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)
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Susan Ee (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 107,728 ratings
score: 557,
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 559,409 ratings
score: 526,
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Read the Fourth Sage written by Stefan Bolz. From the very first page, I was hooked. I could not stop reading this book and creating images as the words became clear in my mind's eye. What a writer. What a book. I recommend it to all of you who believe in big brother and large corporations.... its scary. But great.
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Great list! I had published my own list of the best dystopian novels a couple years ago but figured I should update it. So here are the best dystopian novels of 2016 and 2017 based on curated lists from the Huffington Post, Vulture, Publishers Weekly and more, suggestions from readers on Goodreads and Reddit and ratings on Goodreads and Amazon: https://www.greghickeywrites.com/best....
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