Dystopian books
Books about societies gone wrong: states that control, divide or watch their citizens. Pierce Brown's Golden Son continues a revolt against a caste system on Mars, Alan Moore's V for Vendetta sets an anarchist against a fascist Britain, and Neal Shusterman's Thunderhead imagines a world run by an AI in which death has been abolished. Suzanne Collins's Sunrise on the Reaping returns to Panem.
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- 1Mistborn: The Final Empire
8.98.9 / 10 - 2Children of Time
8.58.5 / 10 - 3Persepolis Rising
8.58.5 / 10 - 4Akira, Vol. 1
8.58.5 / 10 - 5Nineteen Eighty-Four
8.58.5 / 10 - 6V for Vendetta
8.58.5 / 10 - 7Transmetropolitan
8.58.5 / 10 - 8Infinite Jest
8.48.4 / 10 - 9Red Rising
8.48.4 / 10 - 10Wool
8.38.3 / 10 - 11The Hunger Games
8.38.3 / 10 - 12Scythe
8.38.3 / 10 - 13Animal Farm
8.38.3 / 10 - 14Freedom
8.38.3 / 10 - 15Parable of the Sower
8.38.3 / 10 - 16Akira, Vol. 2
8.28.2 / 10 - 17The Handmaid's Tale
8.28.2 / 10 - 18An Ember in the Ashes
8.28.2 / 10 - 19The Caves of Steel
8.18.1 / 10 - 20CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
8.18.1 / 10 - 21Steelheart
8.18.1 / 10 - 22Monsters of Men
8.18.1 / 10 - 23Ready Player One
8.18.1 / 10 - 24Daggermouth
8.18.1 / 10 - 25The Lathe of Heaven
8.08.0 / 10 - 26Powerful
8.08.0 / 10 - 27Pyongyang
8.08.0 / 10 - 28The Quillan Games
8.08.0 / 10 - 29Cronus
8.08.0 / 10 - 30The Young Elites
7.77.7 / 10