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Dystopian Society
Worlds rebuilt on oppression, surveillance, or catastrophe. And the individuals who dare to imagine something better.
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Red Rising
Pierce Brown · Sci-Fi
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future.
chosen one · dystopian society · high stakes survival · enemies to lovers · found family · revenge plot
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Daggermouth
H. M. Wolfe · Fantasy
He Is Her Ruin. She Is His Rebellion. The first thing you’ll learn in New Found Haven is mercy no longer exists. Showing mercy is a weakness, and…
dark romance · enemies to lovers · grimdark · dystopian society · trauma recovery · forced proximity
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Broken Dove
Dani Francis · Romance
In the heart-pounding sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling dystopian romance Silver Elite, lines will be crossed, loyalties will be tested, and the…
dark romance · dystopian society · forbidden romance · high stakes survival · love triangle
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Divergent
Veronica Roth · Sci-Fi
‘Divergent’ is the first in a trilogy of dystopian, YA novels by Veronica Roth.
chosen one · dystopian society · coming of age · forbidden romance · high stakes survival
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Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Paul Tremblay · Sci-Fi
Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable…
dystopian society · psychological thriller · unreliable narrator
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Sublimation
Isabel J. Kim · Sci-Fi
Doppelgangers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border: Sublimation is a thrilling and provocative debut for…
dystopian society · psychological thriller · political intrigue · morally grey character
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Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins · Fantasy
**When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?** As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games,…
dystopian society · grimdark · survival · high stakes survival · coming of age
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Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi · Fantasy
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of…
slow burn · enemies to lovers · dystopian society · forbidden romance · trauma recovery · high stakes survival
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Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard · Fantasy
Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with red and those with silver.
dystopian society · enemies to lovers · chosen one
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Powerless
Lauren Roberts · Fantasy
Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites.
forbidden romance · dystopian society · chosen one · enemies to lovers · slow burn
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