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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Hell's Heart
Ruins
Young World
Westward Women
Mother Is Watching
Cutting Corners
Fathom Fall
For Human Use
The People's Library
After the Fall
The Forest on the Edge of Time
The Hospital at the End of the World
I Am the Ghost Here
This Safe Darkness (Sols & Shades, #1)
Alchemised
Release Me (Shatter Me: The New Republic, #2)
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Operation Bounce House
Beneath (Rebirth #1; Reform, #0)
The Polymorph
Dating After the End of the World
The Poppy Fields
Flame of Fortunes (The Firestone Academy #5)
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
Riftborn (Of Sorrows and Blades #1)
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
The School for Good Mothers
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
1984
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
The Handmaid's Tale
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)

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