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 Dystopian Books for Teens
537 books — 2,130 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryDivergent by Veronica RothBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,924 books — 26,280 voters

Neuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganThe Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Best of Cyberpunk
381 books — 1,194 voters
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireHopeless by Colleen HooverMaybe Someday by Colleen HooverThe Edge of Never by J.A. RedmerskiAlways by Kindle Alexander
2014 Must Reads
2,021 books — 2,025 voters

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

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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