My love for dystopian books began with Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series. A procedure that would make you beautiful and fit into society? Count me in! After that, I read any dystopian book I could get my hands on, and now, years later, they’re making a comeback with the new Hunger Games books.

Dystopia is the opposite of Utopia, where everything is perfect. In dystopian books, life and culture is horrible, usually run by a tyrant, even if the world looks shiny and ...