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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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Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
The Dream Hotel
Tilt
They Bloom at Night
Fable for the End of the World
Blood Beneath the Snow (Blood & Souls, #1)
Luminous
The Knight and the Butcherbird
Jameson (Hunter Squad Book 1)
Into Elysium (The Resistance Book 1)
The Dark Mirror (The Bone Season, #5)
All Better Now
Whiteout
The Mask of Fear (Star Wars: Reign of the Empire, #1)
Brother Brontë
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
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 Knight and the Butcherbird
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
Tilt
Edge of Collapse (Edge of Collapse, #1)
The Wren in the Holly Library (Oak & Holly Cycle, #1)
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
Alone
The School for Good Mothers
Edge of Madness (Edge of Collapse, #2)
The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Martian by Andy WeirWe Were Liars by E. Lockhart
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The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica RothAllegiant by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuireNever Too Far by Abbi GlinesEntwined with You by Sylvia DayReckless by S.C. StephensBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
2013 New Adult Releases
1,131 books — 2,990 voters

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
1984
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
The Handmaid's Tale
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
Legend (Legend, #1)
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
Brave New World
Matched (Matched, #1)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)

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