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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Broken Dove (Silver Elite, #2)
The Last Contract of Isako
Seek the Traitor's Son (The Burning Empire, #1)
Because I Killed Him (The Nine Gentlemen, #1)
Storm Breaker (Storm Breaker, #1)
Ode to the Half-Broken
The Republic of Memory (The Song of the Safina, #1)
Dungeon Crawler Carl: Crocodile
The Franchise
Abyss
Ignore All Previous Instructions
You Pierce My Soul
Absence
The Second Life of Snap
Deathball (Deathball #1)
Alchemised
Broken Dove (Silver Elite, #2)
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl Graphic Novel #1)
One Small Echo (Shadowsong, #1)
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
チェンソーマン 23 [Chainsaw Man 23]
Veiled Court (Legacy of Avalon, #1)
The Last Contract of Isako
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
The Poppy Fields
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
Obstetrix
Dating After the End of the World
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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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