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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The Hollowed (Project Virion, #1)
Darling Diana (Blackstem Universe #1)
How We Survive
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Daggermouth
Tilt
Dating After the End of the World
The Poppy Fields
The Polymorph
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
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Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The People's Library
Junkyard Riders (Junkyard Cats #5)
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
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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)
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
1984
The Handmaid's Tale
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)

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