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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Daggermouth
Secrets of the First School (Edinburgh Nights #5)
Ashes (Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales #2)
Darling Diana (Blackstem Universe #1)
How We Survive
The Merge
Coldwire (Coldwire, #1)
A Love Story from the End of the World: Stories
Opposite World
Born For Marble  (The Cradled Common, #3)
MindWorks: An Uncanny Compendium of Short Fiction
All Because of Me (The All Because #1)
Gold Sector (Drakon-Clan Series #1)
Heavy Metal Lover
Nyx (Mate's Mark Book 3)
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Tilt
Dating After the End of the World
Daggermouth
Ashes (Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales #2)
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport)
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A Visit to the Husband Archive (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The School for Good Mothers
The People's Library
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
YA Dystopia Novels
1,883 books — 11,249 voters
A New Earth by Eckhart TolleWay of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan MillmanWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Thought Provoking
2,868 books — 1,489 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
9,388 books — 2,044 voters
The Deal by Elle KennedyConfess by Colleen HooverThe Mistake by Elle KennedyManwhore by Katy EvansKyland by Mia Sheridan
Top Romances Of 2015
564 books — 2,335 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryDivergent by Veronica RothBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,754 books — 25,990 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
597 books — 2,645 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)
The Giver (The Giver, #1)

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