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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Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Sublimation
Obstetrix
Green City Wars
Cat Love
Edge of Mercy (Sugar & Vice, #3)
The Wildborn (Starborn, #1)
The End of Everything
Earth 7
All We Have Left
Sphaera
Broken Dove (Silver Elite, #2)
Because I Killed Him (The Nine Gentlemen, #1)
The Last Contract of Isako
Seek the Traitor's Son (The Burning Empire, #1)
Alchemised
Broken Dove (Silver Elite, #2)
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Fearful (The Powerless Trilogy, #3.5)
A Forsaken Prophecy (The Artisan Trilogy, #2)
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
The Last Contract of Isako
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
Us Deadly Few (Us Dark Few, #2)
The Poppy Fields
Seek Immediate Shelter
Ruinous Ends (The Souls of Blackwood Academy, #2)
Dating After the End of the World
Gabriel's Fire by Lotchie BurtonSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzThe Art of Avoiding Your Alpha by Lola GlassGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettViciously Yours by Jamie Applegate Hunter
Summer Reading Books
3,729 books — 1,026 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
YA Dystopia Novels
2,023 books — 11,568 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!
1,244 books — 2,817 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)
678 books — 1,051 voters
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzOne Dark Window by Rachel GilligThe Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedWicked Saints by Emily A. DuncanVictor's Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer
Anything You Really Liked
2,708 books — 1,108 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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