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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Operation Bounce House
For Human Use
The People's Library
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
After the Fall
The Forest on the Edge of Time
The Hospital at the End of the World
This Safe Darkness (Sols & Shades)
Eradication: A Fable
Pretenders to the Throne of God (The Tyrant Philosophers, #4)
Neurovance
Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur
Free for All #1
We Call Them Witches
A Wild Radiance
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Operation Bounce House
The Polymorph
Dating After the End of the World
The Poppy Fields
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Shroud
The School for Good Mothers
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
The People's Library
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
Best Young Adult Dystopian Novels
601 books — 2,654 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica RothAllegiant by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
What we've read so far in...2014
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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
2,020 books — 2,024 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyDivergent by Veronica RothFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Dystopian Books
528 books — 1,054 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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