The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
2008
Books with the “Dystopia” trope
A story set in an oppressive society under total control, where people have no freedom or choice.
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Atmosphere and mood · Dystopia
Books with this trope
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
1949
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
1953
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
1985
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
2015
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
1932
Animal Farm
George Orwell
1945
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
2006
Divergent
Veronica Roth
2011
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
2009
Delirium
Lauren Oliver
2011
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
1962
Anthem
Ayn Rand
1938
The Giver
Lois Lowry
1993
The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
2009
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
2005
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
2011
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
1895
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
The Trial
Franz Kafka
1925
Scythe
Neal Shusterman
2016
The Darkest Minds
Alexandra Bracken
2012
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
1924
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
1993
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
2003
Wool
Hugh Howey
2011
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
2014
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
1968
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
2009
Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi
2011
Legend
Marie Lu
2011
Matched
Ally Condie
2010
The Selection
Kiera Cass
2012
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
2017
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
1955
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