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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Womb City
Sky's End (Above the Black, #1)
Deep Freeze (Revival #1)
Into the Sunken City
Your Utopia
The Glass Box
The Last Stars in the Sky
Defy the Future
The Order: Kingdom of Fallen Ash (The Order Series Book 1)
Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock
Soren (Wanderers Between Worlds, #1)
Yours for the Taking
Above the Fire
Possession (Forbidden Alphas, #1)
When Monsters Rise (The Monsters Among Us #4)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
This Impossible Brightness
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
Edge of Collapse (Edge of Collapse, #1)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
The Candy House
Scorpio (Frontlines: Evolution, #1)
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
Escaping Reality by Lisa Renee JonesThe 5th Wave by Rick YanceyReal by Katy EvansBranded by Abi KetnerThe Law of Attraction by N.M. Silber
New Series (2013)
1,002 books — 2,603 voters

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)
460 books — 1,303 voters
Archer's Voice by Mia SheridanMaybe Someday by Colleen HooverUgly Love by Colleen HooverPlay by Kylie ScottBeautiful Player by Christina Lauren
Top Ten Romances Of 2014
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Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. JensenThe Young Elites by Marie LuThe Iron Trial by Holly BlackSnow Like Ashes by Sara RaaschThe Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
First In Series (2014)
677 books — 1,570 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
9,402 books — 2,091 voters

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
1984
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
Fahrenheit 451
Legend (Legend, #1)
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
Matched (Matched, #1)
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
Brave New World
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)

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