When autumn comes around with its crisp cool breezes and dark cozy evenings, readers everywhere often get the urge to take a hearty bite out of their towering to-read stack. Some reach for mysteries or horror, some for classics, some for fantasy, and some even start in on the Christmas romances. But what if I told you you need to were going to fall in love with a little-known dystopian series this fall?

Dystopia might not scream “cozy autumn reading” at first glance, but on closer observa...