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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The Sixth Faction (The Sixth Faction, #1)
Under the Iron Sky (The Iron Sky Trilogy, #1)
Broken Rival
Life Out of Order
What Feeds Below
The Natural Order
Wild Silver and Lead (Snake Ops, #1)
Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends
Dungeon Crawler Carl, Vol. 2 (Graphic Novel)
Passengers
The Names of the New World
MINDEATER (TelexVerse Book 1)
Exit Party
Escape Me (Shatter Me: Series Two, #3)
Doomsdate
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Under the Iron Sky (The Iron Sky Trilogy, #1)
Under Story
Broken Rival
Other Worlds Than These (The Talisman, #3)
Scion (Scion, #1)
When There Are Wolves Again
The End of Everything
Biological War: A Scenario
Defy the Dusk (The Sundering Duet, #1)
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl Graphic Novel, #1)
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Life Out of Order
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YA Dystopia Novels
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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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