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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What We Can Know
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
To Cage a Wild Bird
Saltcrop
Spectators
The Infinite Glade (The Maze Cutter, #3)
The House of Quiet
The First Thousand Trees (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #3)
The Once and Future Me
The Island of Last Things
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
A Mother's Guide to the Apocalypse
Sunbirth
The Hungry Gods
Alchemised
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
The Poppy Fields
Tilt
A Forbidden Alchemy (A Forbidden Alchemy, #1)
Automatic Noodle
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
The Inheritance (Breach Wars, #1)
Nuclear War: A Scenario
To Cage a Wild Bird
Zomromcom
Absolute Superman, Vol. 1: Last Dust of Krypton
Kingdom of Tomorrow (Book of Arden, #1)
Vera, or Faith
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)
462 books — 1,178 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
2,028 books — 2,023 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
YA Dystopia Novels
1,769 books — 11,231 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
596 books — 2,653 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
1,133 books — 2,988 voters
The Deal by Elle KennedyConfess by Colleen HooverThe Mistake by Elle KennedyManwhore by Katy EvansKyland by Mia Sheridan
Top Romances Of 2015
563 books — 2,334 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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