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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I Cheerfully Refuse
Hearts Still Beating
Earthflown
Off With Their Heads
A Better World
Mal Goes to War
Mania
The Merciless King of Moore High
The Kill Factor
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Moon Dust in My Hairnet
Calypso
The Book Censor's Library
Shadowlands Omega (Beasts of Gatamora Book 2)
Naraka (Sang, #2)
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Annie Bot
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
Vow of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #2)
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
Defy the Night (Defy the Night, #1)
When Among Crows
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
The School for Good Mothers
Edge of Collapse (Edge of Collapse, #1)
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
The Oldest Dance (Wisdom Revolution, #2)
I Cheerfully Refuse
1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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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)
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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Brave New World
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
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