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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Beneath (Rebirth #1; Reform, #0)
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)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
Best Young Adult Dystopian Novels
610 books — 2,659 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dystopia!
1,226 books — 2,771 voters

Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuireNever Too Far by Abbi GlinesEntwined with You by Sylvia DayReckless by S.C. StephensBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
2013 New Adult Releases
1,137 books — 2,988 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyDivergent by Veronica Roth
Best Dystopian Books
530 books — 1,056 voters

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasRed Queen by Victoria AveyardMermen by Mimi Jean PamfiloffAn Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa TahirSix of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
New Series (2015)
493 books — 1,198 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica RothAllegiant by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
What we've read so far in...2014
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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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