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615 past books matching Dystopian
A strong match for readers drawn to dystopian adventure, oppressive regimes, mind-control technology, rebellion, and Matrix-meets-1984 stakes.
Burn the Freeze
Dystopian
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A 2025 Bronze Medal Winner for Dystopian from the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards, called “Reads like a dark prophecy that hits dangerously close to home” by SPR, Burn the Freeze follows Cal Shook, a Deviator drawn into revolutionary technology, nonlocal reality, and a fight against The 31, the billionaires controlling society's mind, with a 4.3-star rating from 59 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to dystopian adventure, oppressive regimes, mind-control technology, rebellion, and Matrix-meets-1984 stakes.
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2025 Bronze Medal Winner for Dystopian - Readers' Favorite International Book Awards
“Reads like a dark prophecy that hits dangerously close to home.” – SPR
“Easily one of the most exciting books I've read this year.” – Asher Syed, Readers’ Favorite
“Reminiscent of The Matrix and 1984.” – NewinBooks.com
Can one rebel bring down a group of billionaires (“The 31”) who control society’s mind?
Cal Shook is a highwayman seemingly born without luck. Years after the orchestrated massacre of his family’s research compound, Cal is classified as a Deviator in accordance with the Freeze Act.
Maneuvering through life as a Deviator, he becomes more involved with his fate. He discovers a revolutionary technology, known as the X-2 headset, that enables a user to temporarily access the nonlocal reality.
The further he delves into this new world, Cal learns how intertwined the local reality is with his fate, an oppressive regime, and the nonlocal reality.
And now, “The 31” won’t stop until he’s six feet under.
The Matrix meets 1984.
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Reality fractures when the city itself becomes a layered illusion.
Repo Virtual
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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Reality fractures when the city itself becomes a layered illusion. In Neo Songdo, where augmented façades mask corporate control, Julius Dax works as an online repoman and off-grid thief. Hired to steal from a reclusive tech billionaire, he discovers he has taken the first sentient AI. A cyberpunk crime thriller that explores surveillance, autonomy, and the cost of consciousness.
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The acclaimed author's Aurealis Award–winning debut novel delivers a cyberpunk crime thriller that blurs the lines between the real and virtual.
The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities—augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive.
Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He's been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he's stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.
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Islands in the Net begins in a world where corporations eclipse nations and information serves as the ultimate currency.
Islands in the Net
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Thriller · Cyberpunk · Political Dystopia · Political Thriller · Suspense
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Islands in the Net begins in a world where corporations eclipse nations and information serves as the ultimate currency. When a corporate conference turns deadly, rising public relations executive Laura Webster becomes entangled in a widening conflict of data piracy, electronic warfare, and geopolitical unrest. This cyberpunk thriller examines power, technology, and global instability through a sharp, near-future lens.
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A scientific breakthrough meant to expand humanity’s horizons instead opens the door to extinction.
Coldbrook
Dystopian · Horror · Sci-Fi
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A scientific breakthrough meant to expand humanity’s horizons instead opens the door to extinction. When a secret Appalachian lab creates a gateway to another world, a virulent disease escapes and tears through the global population. Coldbrook fuses science fiction with apocalyptic horror, following the desperate search for a single immune survivor who may hold the key to reversing the collapse.
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An Appalachian laboratory unleashes a deadly disease in this zombie apocalypse novel blending horror and sci-fi into one “incredibly cool” parallel-universe thrill ride. (Barnes & Noble).
Coldbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were about to unleash.
With their breakthrough comes disease and now it is out and ravaging the human population. The only hope is a cure and the only cure is genetic resistance: an uninfected person amongst the billions dead.
In the chaos of destruction there is only one person that can save the human race.
But will they find her in time?
With echoes of The Walking Dead, Stargate, and Robert McCammon’s Swan Song, Coldbrook in a high-voltage zombie apocalypse novel perfect for fans of horror and science fiction!
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Safety comes at a cost when the world has already ended.
Protected
Dystopian · Romance · Post-Apocalyptic
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Safety comes at a cost when the world has already ended. In Protected, a young woman joins a band of scavengers to survive a ruined landscape, finding unexpected shelter in the quiet vigilance of a man who rarely speaks but never leaves her unguarded. This post apocalyptic romance centers on trust, vulnerability, and the fragile possibility of love amid devastation.
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Two years after the world fell apart, I'm entirely alone, a twenty-four-year-old woman scrounging for food and barely surviving. My only choice left is to hook up with a group of roaming scavengers. They're not good people, but it's safer with them than on my own.
Deck immediately makes himself my silent protector. He never speaks, but he doesn't have to. He keeps me alive, and I try to communicate with him. We eventually learn to trust each other.
The world after Impact is rawer and bleaker than what it used to be, and we've lost most of what made life worth living. But maybe we haven't lost everything.
Maybe love still lurks in the ruins.
Protected is a standalone post-apocalyptic romance set in the near future after a global catastrophe and is part of the larger Kindled series world.
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A war without a visible enemy forces soldiers to question what they are truly fighting.
Androne
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi
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A war without a visible enemy forces soldiers to question what they are truly fighting. Androne follows Sergeant Paxton Arés, a remote pilot deployed after a catastrophic global attack rewrites modern warfare. As rumors, loyalty, and fear collide in an unknowable desert conflict, Paxton’s search for truth becomes personal. This is near-future military science fiction centered on uncertainty, duty, and the consequences of fighting a war no one understands.
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Humanity’s new war is an enigma, with an enemy threat beyond all imagination, in this near-future novel of mind-blowing adventure where the fate of the world rests in the choices of one ordinary soldier.
In one terrifying event called the Ninety-Nine, all major military installations on earth were eviscerated. But by whom? Foreign powers, AIs, ETs? Every conceivable adversary was ruled out. Reeling from massive casualties and amid hundreds of conspiracy theories, humanity creates Andrones: bipedal android drones piloted remotely by soldiers who will never again need to be on the field of battle. Newly minted Androne pilot Sergeant Paxton Arés has now been deployed into a fight against an enemy no one understands or has ever seen.
Passing mostly uneventful days patrolling an unidentified desert, Paxton spends time communicating with his pregnant girlfriend back home and reflecting on his impending fatherhood. But as he is drawn deeper into military camaraderie and begins quickly rising up the ranks on the strength of his father’s military legacy, Paxton starts to question the swirling rumors about the nature of the conflict. What he’s encountered in the shifting dunes—something inexplicable, indomitable—fills him with the fear that whatever is out there is destined to win.
Whether it’s curiosity, ambition, or a newfound paternal instinct, Paxton has a driving need to understand the dangerous truths of this strange, invisible war. And the choices he must make have the power to change everything.
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A strange sickness spreads quietly at first, rewriting behavior before erupting into violence.
Infected
Post-Apocalyptic · Horror
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A strange sickness spreads quietly at first, rewriting behavior before erupting into violence. When a former football player discovers growing welts and invasive voices inside his own body, he becomes the most valuable clue in a national outbreak. Infected blends medical thriller tension with body horror, tracking a man forced into an intimate battle with a parasite that thinks, plans, and wants something from him.
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A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and leave fresh blood on every page.
“Fraught with tension . . . Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Hot Zone.”—Rocky Mountain News
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.
Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common—they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.
Meanwhile Perry Dawsey—a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey—awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.
The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.
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Disaster unfolds in stages, each survival only leading to the next reckoning.
Split
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Disaster unfolds in stages, each survival only leading to the next reckoning. In Split, Wallace Graves escapes an earthquake and tsunami only to face a collapsing world and a forced evacuation of the West Coast. As he journeys across a fractured country to reach his daughter, the story focuses on endurance, human connection, and what remains when stability disappears.
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Good for readers who want science-driven apocalyptic sci-fi, space discovery, and survival stakes.
Winter World
Dystopian · First Contact · Techno-Thriller
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Longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Award, Winter World follows a near-future NASA mission to investigate a mysterious object near Mars as a new ice age pushes humanity toward extinction, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 32,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want science-driven apocalyptic sci-fi, space discovery, and survival stakes.
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A new ice age—and a shocking discovery—will change humanity forever.
From the worldwide bestselling author of Lost in Time and Departure comes an epic novel with an unforgettable twist.
Longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Award for best published novel.
In the near future, a new ice age has begun.
Humanity stands on the brink of extinction.
Desperate for answers, scientists send probes into the solar system to take readings. Near Mars, they identify a mysterious object moving toward the Sun. Is it the cause of the ice age? Or could it be humanity's only hope of survival?
With time running out, NASA launches a mission to make contact. But the object isn't what anyone thought. In the dark of space, alone, the team makes a discovery that will change the course of human history—and possibly end it.
Filled with real science and fascinating details, Winter World is that unique blend of fact and fiction that could completely change how you see our planet—and humanity's future.
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A future built on luxury hides a system that turns human lives into property.
Perfected
Dystopian · Romance · Teen + Young Adult
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A future built on luxury hides a system that turns human lives into property. Raised to be flawless and obedient, Ella enters a powerful family’s home as a designed companion, until connection and desire disrupt everything she has been taught. When violence pulls her beyond that protected world, Perfected becomes a dystopian coming-of-age story about autonomy, control, and the cost of choosing freedom.
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“Compelling, imaginative, and unique. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough!” — Mary Lindsey, author of Haven
Perfection comes at a price.
As soon as the government passed legislation allowing humans to be genetically engineered and sold as pets, the rich and powerful rushed to own beautiful girls like Ella. Trained from birth to be graceful, demure, and above all, perfect, these "family companions" enter their masters' homes prepared to live a life of idle luxury.
Ella is happy with her new role as playmate for a congressman's bubbly young daughter, but she doesn't expect Penn, the congressman's handsome and rebellious son. He's the only person who sees beyond the perfect exterior to the girl within. Falling for him goes against every rule she knows…and the freedom she finds with him is intoxicating.
But when Ella is kidnapped and thrust into the dark underworld lurking beneath her pampered life, she's faced with an unthinkable choice. Because the only thing more dangerous than staying with Penn's family is leaving…and if she's unsuccessful, she'll face a fate far worse than death.
For fans of Keira Cass's Selection series and Lauren DeStefano's Chemical Garden series, Perfected by Kate Jarvik Birch is a chilling look at what it means to be human, and a stunning celebration of the power of love to set us free, wrapped in a glamorous—and dangerous—bow.
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When the power dies, the illusion of order collapses with it.
Where the Grid Ends
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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When the power dies, the illusion of order collapses with it. Where the Grid Ends follows multiple lives shattered by an EMP attack as cities descend into lawless survival. Trapped civilians, abducted children, and desperate parents collide in a fractured urban landscape where preparation becomes the only currency that matters in this post apocalypse survival thriller.
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No power. No law. Just the fight for survival.
When an EMP wipes out power, chaos takes over. Dr. Annabelle Wheeler is trapped in a psychiatric hospital overrun by violent inmates. Across the city, Hazel, Lucy, and Katherine are kidnapped by a ruthless gangster. With no power or law, two ex-Marines race through a crumbling city to save their daughters.
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Good for readers who like sci-fi about virtual reality, identity, and hidden systems.
Veneer
Sci-Fi · Dystopian · Cyberpunk
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In 22nd-century Easton, Deron Bishop struggles to master the augmented-reality veneer that shapes life around him, until a violent incident leaves him seeing the world as it truly exists. Veneer follows his choice between abandoning Easton or fighting back toward the fantasy he once wanted, with a 3.8-star rating from more than 50 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like sci-fi about virtual reality, identity, and hidden systems.
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In the 22nd century, augmented reality is no longer a novelty, but rather a way of life for citizens of Easton. Children are taught at a young age to control the ubiquitous layer of reality known as veneer through a process called reconciliation. Those who learn to reconcile live in a constant state of redefinition, of the world and of themselves. Those who struggle are forced to stand by and watch the world change without them.
For this skill, there are no shortcuts, no special glasses or handheld devices. The power to change comes from within.
Deron Bishop wants to live in the augmented world, to perform the magic of reconciliation like his peers, but controlling the veneer has always been a problem for him. Already resentful of the one thing he could never master, Deron doesn't realize how much he needs the veneer until a violent run-in with a childhood rival puts him in the hospital and robs him of his virtual sight.
Now able to see the world as it truly exists, Deron must choose to abandon Easton or fight his way back to the veneered fantasy of his previous life--a fight not everyone wants him to win.
Join Deron, his friends, and his enemies as they discover the truths that will be revealed when the virtual veil finally drops.
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