Dystopian novels

Dungeon Crawler Carl is a science fantasy LitRPG book series written by American author Matt Dinniman. Initially self published by Dinniman via online publisher Royal Road, it, and its six sequels, were acquired by Ace Books in 2024.

1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell

1945 novella by George Orwell

1925 novel by Franz Kafka

1932 novel by Aldous Huxley

1953 novel by Ray Bradbury

Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that lead to a descent into savagery. The novel's themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos.

1895 dystopian science fiction novella by H. G. Wells

2008 novel by Suzanne Collins

1962 novel by Anthony Burgess

pentalogy of books by Suzanne Collins (2008–2025)

novel by Dan Brown

novel by Franz Kafka

1957 novel by Ayn Rand

1985 novel by Margaret Atwood

science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick

1962 novel by Philip K. Dick

2009 novel by Suzanne Collins

1924 novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Mockingjay is a 2010 dystopian young adult fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger Games series, following 2008's The Hunger Games and 2009's Catching Fire. The book concludes the story of Katniss Everdeen, who agrees to unify the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol.

2011 novel by Veronica Roth

1950 novel by Ray Bradbury

Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by William Gibson. Set in a near-future dystopia, the narrative follows Case, a computer hacker enlisted into a crew by a powerful artificial intelligence and a traumatised former soldier to complete a high-stakes heist. It was Gibson's debut novel and, after its success, served as the first entry in the Sprawl trilogy, followed by Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).

1972 novel Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

1879 novel by Jules Verne

Ubik ( ) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. It follows Joe Chip, a technician at a psychic agency who begins to experience strange alterations in reality that can be temporarily reversed by a mysterious store-bought substance called Ubik. This work expands upon characters and concepts previously introduced in the vignette "What the Dead Men Say".

2008 novel by Stephenie Meyer

1993 novel by Lois Lowry

2004 novel by David Mitchell

novel by H. G. Wells

2009 novel by James Dashner

1982 novel by Stephen King

novel by Ayn Rand

novel by Jules Verne published posthumously in 1994

novel by Karel Čapek

Japanese light novel series

The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Set in a dystopian alternative version of the United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, the plot follows the contestants of a grueling annual walking contest. While not the first of King's novels to be published, The Long Walk was the first novel he wrote, having begun it in 1966–67 during his freshman year at the University of Maine, some eight years before his first published novel, Carrie, was released in 1974.

novel by Ernest Cline

2006 novel by Max Brooks

2015 novel by Michel Houellebecq

2020 novel by Suzanne Collins

1908 novel by Jack London

1999 novel by Koushun Takami

1992 novel by Robert Harris

novel by William Luther Pierce

2012 novel by Veronica Roth

2002 novel by Richard K. Morgan

1899 novel by H. G. Wells

series of 16 novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, published 1995-2007

1956 novel by Arthur C. Clarke

Sunrise on the Reaping is a 2025 dystopian novel written by American author Suzanne Collins and the second prequel novel to the original The Hunger Games trilogy, following The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020). Set about 24 years before the events of the first novel, the narrative delves into themes of political manipulation, the power of propaganda, and the complexities of societal control under a totalitarian regime and centers on the 50th Hunger Games, in which Haymitch Abernathy competed. It was released on March 18, 2025, and published by Scholastic.

1977 novel by Philip K. Dick

1996 novel by David Foster Wallace

The Testaments is a 2019 novel by Margaret Atwood. It is the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (1985). The novel is set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale. It is narrated by Aunt Lydia, a character from the previous novel; Agnes Jemima, a young woman living in Gilead; and Daisy, a young woman living in Canada.

1974 novel by Philip K. Dick

2010 novel by James Dashner

2013 novel by Veronica Roth

1974 novel by Joe Haldeman

novel by Mary Shelley

2021 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro