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Dystopian Books

Original List by Crowd: Dystopian Books

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Dystopians are polar opposites of Utopian; basically about imperfect societies in the near-future. General themes in dystopian fiction: social contro... more

Criteria: Books with heavy dystopian elements: social control, police state, society under strict governmental control, etc

Reference: http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/dystopian-science-fiction.php

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Crowd's list (53 items) - original
#1 pick: 1984
Crowd's list (53 items) - master
#1 pick: 1984

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44

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Brave New World

3

36

8

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4

23

2

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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Award Nominations:1968 NEBULA

5

18

4

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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

6

18

5

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Richard Matheson

7

20

8

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Lord Of The Flies

William Golding

8

14

2

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The Time Machine

9

17

8

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Cormac McCarthy

10

10

2

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Aoleon The Martian Girl

Brent LeVasseur

11

25

19

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The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

12

14

7

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The Handmaid's Tale

13

11

4

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

14

11

5

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The Running Man

15

12

6

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Canticle For Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller Jr.

16

7

3

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The Children Of Men

17

7

3

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The Maze Runner

18

6

2

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19

10

7

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Margaret Atwood

20

9

6

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Awards Won:1984 NEBULA, 1984 PKD, 1985 HUGO

Award Nominations:1984 BSFA, 1985 CAMPBELL

21

4

1

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Book Of The New Sun

22

4

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23

6

5

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Award Nominations:2004 NEBULA, 2005 CLARKE

24

5

4

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25

5

4

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26

4

3

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27

2

1

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The Gameplayers Of Zan

28

2

1

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29

2

1

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Across The Universe

30

2

1

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Ready Player One

Award Nominations:2012 CAMPBELL

31

2

1

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Vintage International

Haruki Murakami

32

2

1

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Emily St. John Mandel

33

2

1

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The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

Awards Won:2009 NEBULA, 2010 HUGO, 2010 CAMPBELL

Award Nominations:2010 BSFA

34

1

0

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35

1

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Red Rising Trilogy

36

7

7

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Scott Westerfeld

37

5

5

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Richard K. Morgan

Awards Won:2003 PKD

38

3

3

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The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

Awards Won:1974 NEBULA, 1975 HUGO, 1975 LocusSF

Award Nominations:1975 CAMPBELL

39

2

2

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Stop 1 on the Uproar in The Broken Apple Road Trip

40

1

1

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The Water Knife

Paolo Bacigalupi

41

1

1

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The Last Survivors

42

1

1

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Eight Against Utopia

DOUGLAS R. MASON

43

1

1

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The Broken Earth

44

13

15

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45

2

3

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46

0

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47

1

3

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Award Nominations:1975 NEBULA

48

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3

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49

0

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50

1

4

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Spanish Edition

Angeles Rodriguez

51

0

4

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Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

(Book 1)

52

3

8

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53

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6

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