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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Daggermouth
Secrets of the First School (Edinburgh Nights #5)
Ashes (Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales #2)
The Hollowed (Project Virion, #1)
Darling Diana (Blackstem Universe #1)
How We Survive
The Merge
Coldwire (Coldwire, #1)
Slow Gods
A Love Story from the End of the World: Stories
Opposite World
Born For Marble  (The Cradled Common, #3)
MindWorks: An Uncanny Compendium of Short Fiction
All Because of Me (The All Because #1)
Gold Sector (Drakon-Clan Series #1)
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Conform (Conform, #1)
Dating After the End of the World
Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The Poppy Fields
Tilt
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
A Visit to the Husband Archive (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Daggermouth
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The School for Good Mothers
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyDivergent by Veronica RothFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Dystopian Books
524 books — 1,034 voters

Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. JensenThe Young Elites by Marie LuThe Iron Trial by Holly BlackSnow Like Ashes by Sara RaaschThe Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
First In Series (2014)
677 books — 1,051 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
Best Dystopian Books for Teens
526 books — 2,130 voters

Cold Days by Jim  ButcherKing of Thorns by Mark  LawrenceA Perfect Blood by Kim HarrisonFair Game by Patricia BriggsTricked by Kevin Hearne
Science Fiction & Fantasy Titles for 2012!
651 books — 1,423 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
YA Dystopia Novels
1,889 books — 11,250 voters

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
1984
The Handmaid's Tale
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)

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