Top 10 Dystopian Books
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1.📚 The Handmaid’s Tale
✍️ Margaret Atwood
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The book, set in New England in the near future, posits a Christian fundamentalist theocratic regime in the former United States that arose as a response to a fertility crisis.
2.📚 The Stand
✍️ Stephen King
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A deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which some of the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other.
3.📚 The Trial
✍️ Franz Kafka
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Novel that follows the story of a man named Joseph K. who is arrested and put on trial for an unknown crime in a nightmarish and absurd legal system. It delves into themes of guilt, bureaucracy, and the individual's struggle against an incomprehensible and oppressive society.
4.📚 The Maze Runner
✍️ James Dashner
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It takes place in a world suffering from a coronal mass ejection and whose surviving civilians fight to avoid an apocalyptic illness called the Flare. It is written from the perspective of Thomas, a 16-year-old boy who wakes up with no memories inside an artificially produced maze.
5.📚 V for Vendetta
✍️ Alan Moore
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Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it.
6.📚 Ready Player One
✍️ Ernest Cline
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The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune and the game itself.
7.📚 Never Let Me Go
✍️ Kazuo Ishiguro
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It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.
8.📚 Blade Runner
✍️ Philip K. Dick
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It follows the story of Bounty Hunter Rick Deckard, whose job is to 'retire' renegade androids who have escaped from the outer colonies.
9.📚 The Selection
✍️ Kiera Cass
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Thirty-five eligible, randomly selected women from across the kingdom are brought in to compete for the prince's hand. The story follows America Singer, a Five. America has no real desire to enter The Selection because she is secretly in a relationship with a boy named Aspen, who is a Six.
10.📚 Shatter Me
✍️ Tahereh Mafi
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Juliette Ferrars is a 17-year-old girl whose touch is lethal and will kill anyone who touches her skin for long enough. Juliette is placed in an asylum 264 days prior to the start of the book after accidentally killing a small boy with her touch when she was 14.