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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We Burned So Bright
Release Me (Shatter Me: The New Republic, #2)
The Verdant Cage
Honor & Heresy
The Gravewood (The Gravewood, #1)
Permanence
The Bloody and the Damned
Sanctuary
Piper at the Gates of Dusk (The New World, #1)
Certainty
Your Behavior Will Be Monitored
Survival Show
The Boyfriend Academy
The Killing Spell
Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
Beneath (Rebirth, #1; Reform, #0)
The Poppy Fields
Dating After the End of the World
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
The School for Good Mothers
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Riftborn (Of Sorrows and Blades #1)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
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New Series (2013)
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Neuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganThe Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
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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
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Me Before You by Jojo MoyesThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsWinter by Marissa MeyerCinder by Marissa MeyerThe Martian by Andy Weir
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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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