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  • Cover of A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork OrangeSeries

    series · 4 books · 1962

    completed

    Dystopia, set in near future and our world.

    “After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”

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  • Cover of The Hunger Games Universe
    The Hunger GamesUniverse

    universe · 5 books · 2008

    Dystopia, set in far future and north america.

    “Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”

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    includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels

  • Cover of The Handmaid's Tale
    The Handmaid's TaleSeries

    series · 3 books · 1985

    Dystopia, about gender and society, set in north america and near future.

    “The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”

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  • Cover of Fahrenheit 451
    Fahrenheit 451Series

    series · 2 books · 1951

    completed

    Dystopia, about books and reading, set in north america and near future.

    “Set in a future where books are outlawed and firemen exist to burn them, it follows fireman Guy Montag as doubts about his job push him toward the very literature he's supposed to destroy.”

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    Start with The Fireman →

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  • Cover of The Penultimate Truth
    The Penultimate TruthNovel

    Philip K. Dick · standalone novel · 1964

    Dystopia, about surveillance, set in far future and underground & caves.

    “The people are told that World War III is being fought above them, when in reality the war ended years ago.”

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  • Cover of When the Sleeper Wakes
    When the Sleeper WakesNovel

    H. G. Wells · standalone novel · 1899

    Dystopia, about political intrigue, set in our world and far future.

    “Graham, an insomniac Englishman in 1890s London, takes a course of sleep-inducing drugs and falls into a coma that lasts two centuries.”

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