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20 Best Dystopian Books of All Time


Our goal: Find the best Dystopian books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

    Here's what we did:
  1. Type "best dystopian books" into our search engine and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly for you here! 😊
    (It was a lot of work. But hey! That's why we're here, right?)

(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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  1. MOST RECOMMENDED!
    1
    1984

    1984

    George Orwell

  2. 2
    Brave New World

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley

  3. 3
    The Handmaid's Tale

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

  4. 4
    The Road

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

  5. 5
    Fahrenheit 451
  6. 6
    A Clockwork Orange

    A Clockwork Orange

    Anthony Burgess

  7. 7
    Station Eleven

    Station Eleven

    A Novel

    Emily St. John Mandel

  8. 8
    The Power

    The Power

    Naomi Alderman

  9. 9
    The Hunger Games
  10. 10
    Parable of the Sower
  11. 11
    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell

  12. 12
    The Time Machine
  13. 13
    Never Let Me Go

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

  14. 14
    The Fifth Season
  15. 15
    Vox

    Vox

    Christina Dalcher

  16. 17
    Blindness

    Blindness

    Jose Saramago

  17. 18
    We

    We

    A Novel

    Yevgeny Zamyatin

  18. 19
    The Children of Men
  19. 20
    Battle Royale

    Battle Royale

    Koushun Takami

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