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Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world, or utopia. Dystopian fiction is creation of a nightmare world, or dystopia.
Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world, or utopia. Dystopian fiction is creation of a nightmare world, or dystopia.
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
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Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
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Legend (Legend, #1)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
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Delirium (Delirium, #1)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
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Matched (Matched, #1)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 811,198 ratings
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Uglies (Uglies, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
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Fire Country (The Country Saga, #1)
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David Estes (Goodreads Author)
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
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Gone (Gone, #1)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 209,059 ratings
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The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 631,810 ratings
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The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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Kiera Cass (Goodreads Author)
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, #3)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
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Fahrenheit 451
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Enclave (Razorland, #1)
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Ann Aguirre (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 70,619 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 — 115,200 ratings
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The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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Blood Red Road (Dust Lands, #1)
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Moira Young (Goodreads Author)
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City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
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Pretties (Uglies, #2)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
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1984
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Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 1,128,246 ratings
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The Moon Dwellers (The Dwellers, #1)
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David Estes (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 4,424 ratings
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Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)
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Lauren DeStefano (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 100,743 ratings
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Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)
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Beth Revis (Goodreads Author)
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Prodigy (Legend, #2)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
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City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 1,006,850 ratings
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Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1)
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Isaac Marion (Goodreads Author)
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
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Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
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Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
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Crossed (Matched, #2)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
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Specials (Uglies, #3)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
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City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
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Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)
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Partials (Partials Sequence, #1)
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Dan Wells (Goodreads Author)
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Inside Out (Insider, #1)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
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Requiem (Delirium, #3)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
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City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
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Reached (Matched, #3)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
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The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)
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Alexandra Bracken (Goodreads Author)
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Extras (Uglies, #4)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
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Among the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)
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Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
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Susan Ee (Goodreads Author)
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Starters (Starters, #1)
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Lissa Price (Goodreads Author)
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
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Mike Mullin (Goodreads Author)
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Animal Farm
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Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)
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Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author)
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The Eleventh Plague
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Jeff Hirsch (Goodreads Author)
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Variant (Variant, #1)
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Robison Wells (Goodreads Author)
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Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
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The Road
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Ashes, Ashes (Ashes, Ashes, #1)
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Pure (Pure, #1)
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Julianna Baggott (Goodreads Author)
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Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
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The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden, #1)
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Julie Kagawa (Goodreads Author)
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The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
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Evermore (The Immortals, #1)
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Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author)
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Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky, #2)
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Veronica Rossi (Goodreads Author)
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
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The Star Dwellers (The Dwellers, #2)
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David Estes (Goodreads Author)
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The Sun Dwellers (The Dwellers, #3)
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David Estes (Goodreads Author)
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The Elite (The Selection, #2)
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Kiera Cass (Goodreads Author)
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Ashes (Ashes Trilogy, #1)
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Ilsa J. Bick (Goodreads Author)
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Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)
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Everlost (The Skinjacker Trilogy, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
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Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
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Dark Inside (Dark Inside, #1)
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Jeyn Roberts (Goodreads Author)
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The Silence Dividend: Science Fiction Dystopian
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
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Of Monsters and Planes
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Beat (Beat, #1)
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Jared Garrett (Goodreads Author)
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Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
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Emmy Laybourne (Goodreads Author)
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Messenger (The Giver, #3)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
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Ice Country (The Country Saga, #2)
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David Estes (Goodreads Author)
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I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)
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Witch & Wizard (Witch & Wizard, #1)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
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Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
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Echo's Remnant (The Echo Chronicles, #1)
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Tremor (Tremor Cycle, #1)
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Ryan Mark (Goodreads Author)
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The Search for WondLa (The Search for WondLa, #1)
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Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author)
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The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)
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Carrie Ryan (Goodreads Author)
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Son (The Giver, #4)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
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Hunger (Gone, #2)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
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Dark Life (Dark Life, #1)
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Kat Falls (Goodreads Author)
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Lies (Gone, #3)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
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Lockdown (Escape from Furnace, #1)
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Alexander Gordon Smith (Goodreads Author)
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
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I Am Legend and Other Stories
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Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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Victoria Aveyard (Goodreads Author)
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Removed: City of Bones because it's not dystopian.
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Another great one is " Fire Country" by David Estes. It's one of the great ones :)
Touching Spirit Bear #261 is survival. It is definitely not dystopian.
Hercina wrote: "Removed: City of Bones because it's not dystopian."True, it is a YA book, yet it is not a dystopian book.
A Tale of Two Cities? Great story but not for this list.
Tremor by Ryan Mark - It's by a new author, but it definitely packs a punch when considering the big contenders in this genre. A great Dystopian novel, well worth checking out.
WHY is Mario Puzo's "Godfather" on this list???
World War Z is fantastic but not YA.Animal Farm is fantastic, a fable, and yes has talking animals, but also not YA.
Swan Song, about as YA adult as King's The Stand: so not - but very good.
MacAddam trilogy, excellent, but not YA.
Of Mice and Men and Catch 22 neither dystopian nor YA
And The Godfather, seriously?
Heinlein and Rand aren't YA either.
Brave New World, not YA
Need to make this list YA dystopian or just dystopian - and take out those weird oddballs.
I think Metro 2033 should be on this list
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