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615 past books matching Dystopian
Defy Me follows Juliette Ferrars as her world collapses under the weight of long-buried truths.
Defy Me
Dystopian · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Defy Me follows Juliette Ferrars as her world collapses under the weight of long-buried truths. As memories resurface and everything she believed unravels, she must decide whether to be a weapon or a warrior, supported by Warner and her closest allies. With strong Amazon and Goodreads ratings, this installment pushes the Shatter Me series into deeper emotional territory.
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Restore Me follows Juliette Ferrars as she steps into her role as Supreme Commander, only to find her newfound power tested by tragedy and the darkness she thought…
Restore Me
Dystopian · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Restore Me follows Juliette Ferrars as she steps into her role as Supreme Commander, only to find her newfound power tested by tragedy and the darkness she thought she had mastered. With Warner at her side and the world watching, every choice becomes a reckoning. A New York Times bestseller with strong Amazon and Goodreads ratings, this installment deepens the series’ emotional stakes.
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An instant New York Times bestseller! Juliette and Warner’s story continues in the electrifying fourth installment of Tahereh Mafi’s bestselling Shatter Me series.
The girl with the power to kill with a single touch now has the world in the palm of her hand. Juliette Ferrars thought she’d won. She took over Sector 45, was named the new Supreme Commander of North America, and now has Warner by her side. But when tragedy strikes, she must confront the darkness that dwells both around and inside her.
Who will she become in the face of adversity? Will she be able to control the power she wields, and use it for good?
This bestselling series from powerhouse author Tahereh Mafi showcases relentlessly thrilling action, heart stopping romance, and a war-torn world in which rebellion is the only path to freedom.
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Ignite Me follows Juliette as she rises from the destruction of Omega Point and joins forces with Warner to master her powers and confront The Reestablishment.
Ignite Me
Dystopian · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Ignite Me follows Juliette as she rises from the destruction of Omega Point and joins forces with Warner to master her powers and confront The Reestablishment. Every alliance is fragile, every emotion sharpened by war, and her choices could decide the fate of their fractured world. With 4.6 stars on Amazon and more than 650,000 Goodreads ratings, this installment is a reader favorite.
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The explosive last novel in Juliette and Warner's story, the globally bestselling Shatter Me series.
Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie?
Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong—between Ella and Juliette—blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control.
The day of reckoning for The Reestablishment is coming. But she may not get to choose what side she fights on.
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Avidian follows Kat Sinclair, an Avid who sees the dead and is forced to investigate a brutal double murder inside the powerful Volkov household.
Avidian
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Avidian follows Kat Sinclair, an Avid who sees the dead and is forced to investigate a brutal double murder inside the powerful Volkov household. Their secrets pull her toward a truth that could destroy her, even as a disarming stranger offers the first glimpse of hope she has felt in years. With strong Amazon and Goodreads ratings, this is dark, atmospheric dystopian.
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If Shatter Me and Divergent had a morally gray baby raised by ghosts—it would be Avidian.
This is a spicy, binge-worthy romantasy set in a dystopian world where she’s forced to solve a murder using her rare ability to see the dead—and the man offering her a way out might be hiding the most dangerous secret of all.
I can see the dead. They tell me their secrets. But this time, their secrets might get me killed.
My name is Kat Sinclair, and the Volkov family owns me. People like me, born with special abilities, are called Avids. But my gift doesn’t spare me from the demands of Marco Volkov, the ruthless family patriarch who keeps me in line with the ever-present threat of violence.
When a grisly double murder involving a family nephew and a cook shakes the household, I’m forced to uncover the truth. The whispers of the dead reveal more than I bargained for, unearthing secrets that could destroy the Volkovs—and me.
But I met a charming stranger who might be able to help. Except he doesn’t know about my gift, my scars, or the dark past I can’t escape. But in his eyes, I see something I thought I’d lost long ago—hope.
If I want to escape, I’ll have to play along. But this murder might be hiding something even more dangerous. If I’m not careful, I’ll be the next one the dead are whispering about.
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As a deadly virus ends nearly all life, an immune convict is ordered to find the warden’s missing daughter.
Find Her
Post-Apocalyptic · Dystopian · Romance · Sci-Fi
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As a deadly virus ends nearly all life, an immune convict is ordered to find the warden’s missing daughter. Guided only by her photograph, he searches a collapsing world ruled by violent factions. When he finds her, protecting her becomes more than a duty. With 4.1 stars and hundreds of Goodreads ratings, this is a tense, emotional apocalypse romance.
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An unlikely savior searching for an angel in the midst of Hell...
As a convict serving a life sentence, I shouldn't be playing the hero to the prison warden's damsel-in-distress daughter. But with ninety-nine percent of the population projected to die from a rapidly-spreading virus and society falling into chaos, the desperate, dying father’s options are limited. And since I'm immune to the virus, he puts his daughter's life in my hands with one simple directive: Find her.
I only know the warden's daughter from a photograph, but she glows like she was Heaven-sent. Protecting her gives me purpose in this godforsaken world where a sinister and uncannily-organized faction is rising from the rubble—taking control in a lawless land and rounding up the few survivors. When I finally find her, will the young woman with the innocent smile and ocean-blue eyes still shine from within? Or will the spiraling darkness snuff out her light for good?
FIND HER is a standalone, steamy apocalypse romance novel with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
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As a deadly virus destroys the world, three survivors navigate the ruins of America.
The Immune
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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As a deadly virus destroys the world, three survivors navigate the ruins of America. Adam Fisher discovers he is immune, Sarah Wells fights to hold the line in New York, and Freddie Briggs searches for meaning after devastating loss. Their paths converge in a dangerous quest for answers. A 4.4-star favorite with thousands of reviews.
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AFTER THE WORLD ENDS, THE ADVENTURE BEGINS.
On a warm summer night in New York City, a deadly virus is unleashed, burning across the globe like a wildfire and pushing society to the brink of collapse.
Adam Fisher, a physician in Virginia, watches in horror as society collapses, taking with it everyone he has ever known - even as he inexplicably remains immune.
In New York, U.S. Army captain Sarah Wells struggles to maintain a military quarantine while hiding a tragic secret of her own.
And in Georgia, former professional football player Freddie Briggs mourns the loss of his family.
In the silent wake of the pandemic, these three survivors, brought together by chance, will discover a stunning bit of hope, sending them on a quest across the dangerous ruins of an America blasted by plague - and putting them face to face with the horrifying truth about the apocalypse.
Fans of Stephen King's THE STAND and Justin Cronin's THE PASSAGE will love this book - join thousands of other readers on this post apocalyptic adventure and buy now!
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In Caitlyn Can’t Die, a Halloween disaster destroys the world and leaves Caitlyn wishing she had not survived.
Caitlyn Can’t Die
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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In Caitlyn Can’t Die, a Halloween disaster destroys the world and leaves Caitlyn wishing she had not survived. When Riley refuses to abandon her after finding her wounded, the two opposites become uneasy allies in a collapsing landscape where people pose more danger than monsters. With 4.3 Amazon stars and strong Goodreads ratings, this survival romance strikes an emotional chord.
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Since when did surviving the apocalypse become a good thing?
Caitlyn was doing okay before the end of the world. She had a decent job, dated around, and there was nothing a glass (bottle) of wine couldn't fix. When a Halloween haunted house proves to have real-life monsters turning everyone into creatures with black goo for blood, she manages to survive a few months on pure luck. The thing is... she doesn't want to anymore.
Riley doesn't leave people behind. It's not in his nature to give up, so when he finds a woman bleeding out in the woods, he stops to help. It's only when she wakes up the next day, furious that she isn't dead, that he realizes she didn't want to be saved. The duo are complete opposites who can't stop arguing with one another about how to survive, or if they even want to anymore.
It's not just the lack of heat, clean water, and tampons. This new world is horrible for those left alive. People have become more dangerous than the beasts they are running from. Who would want to live like this? But day after day, and despite all odds, Caitlyn and Riley keep going. They start to wonder if the lack of every modern convenience combined with the threat of impending doom isn't all that bad. They have each other, and maybe, that's enough.
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In a near future where nanotherapy grants virtual immortality, literary scholar Yonghun vanishes and returns changed, raising unsettling questions about identity.
Toward Eternity
Dystopian · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Speculative Fiction
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In a near future where nanotherapy grants virtual immortality, literary scholar Yonghun vanishes and returns changed, raising unsettling questions about identity. His creation, an AI taught to understand poetry, is placed into an android body and given life, sparking a new evolution of sentient beings. Anton Hur delivers a haunting, lyrical exploration of personhood, progress, and love’s endurance.
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"A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide, and manipulates prose into something like a new language....Toward Eternity recognizes both the building and burning of bridges." -New York Times
*A PARADE, LITHUB, and CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS Best New Book. *An AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD WINNER.
Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology?
In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The body’s cells are entirely replaced with nanites—robot or android cells which not only cure those afflicted but leaves them virtually immortal.
Literary researcher Yonghun teaches an AI how to understand poetry and creates a living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning Beloved, in honor of his husband. When Yonghun—himself a recipient of nanotherapy—mysteriously vanishes into thin air and then just as suddenly reappears, the event raises disturbing questions. What happened to Yonghun, and though he’s returned, is he really himself anymore?
When Dr. Beeko, the scientist who holds the patent to the nanotherapy technology, learns of Panit, he transfers its consciousness from the machine into an android body, giving it freedom and life. As Yonghun, Panit, and other nano humans thrive—and begin to replicate—their development will lead them to a crossroads and a choice with existential consequences.
Exploring the nature of intelligence and the unexpected consequences of progress, the meaning of personhood and life, and what we really have to fear from technology and the future, Toward Eternity is a gorgeous, thought-provoking novel that challenges the notion of what makes us human—and how love survives even the end of that humanity.
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Oracle begins when an eighteenth-century ship appears in a winter field and a teenager vanishes inside it.
Oracle
Horror · Sci-Fi · Cosmic Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
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Oracle begins when an eighteenth-century ship appears in a winter field and a teenager vanishes inside it. As disappearances escalate, occult expert Robert Grim and young Luca uncover signs of an ancient force preparing to return. With 4.0 stars on Amazon and over 4,500 Goodreads ratings, this supernatural thriller blends mystery, dread, and apocalyptic suspense.
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From international bestseller Thomas Olde Heuvelt comes Oracle, a supernatural thriller where an omen from our past threatens the return of ancient forces that will change the world forever.
"The threshold to the apocalypse has seldom been so fun. This is Olde Heuvelt’s sharpest, most compelling work to date.”—The New York Times
On a foggy winter morning, high school kids Luca and Emma discover the impossible: the wreck of an eighteenth-century ship stranded in a flower field.
Emma enters the hatch on the deck and is never seen again. And she isn’t the last to disappear. . . .
Soon a government agency begins to investigate, determined to uncover the ship’s secrets before a media storm erupts. They enlist Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the occult, to unravel the mystery, and he soon realizes the ship could be a harbinger of an ancient doom awakened under the sea.
In a maelstrom of international intrigue and pure terror, Grim and Luca must race against time as they come face-to-face with an open doorway to the apocalypse.
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In Across the Sand, four siblings struggle to forge a life in a future ruled by dunes, while Anya crosses No Man’s Land seeking vengeance after her town…
Across the Sand
Dystopian
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In Across the Sand, four siblings struggle to forge a life in a future ruled by dunes, while Anya crosses No Man’s Land seeking vengeance after her town is destroyed. Their paths collide in a desert shaped by survival and hidden history. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and thousands of Goodreads ratings, this novel expands Hugh Howey’s acclaimed world of Sand.
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“Hugh’s imaginative worlds and tales within them never fail to entertain!”
—Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary
The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations after a disaster has destroyed civilization as we know it, where four siblings struggle to build their futures amid the harsh wastes of endless desert
The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes, a land of howling wind and infernal sand.
In this barren home, siblings Conner, Rob, Palmer and Violet daily carve out a future. They live in the shadow of their father and oldest sister, Vic, two of the greatest sand divers ever to comb the desert’s depths. But these branches of their family tree are long gone, disappeared into the wastes beyond, leaving the younger siblings scratching in the dust, hopeful for a better life.
On the other side of No Man’s Land, Anya was born beside the abundant mines knowing her prospects would be to marry, have a family, and work in ore, in service to the Empire of the East. But when an atomic bomb delivered by a stranger destroys most of her town—murdering all her friends and community—she follows her father to a strange land of dunes to bring vengeance to their enemies.
Two families collide across the sand, and nothing for a thousand dunes will ever be the same.
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In The Darkening, strange summer snow and dimming daylight signal a global collapse as alien spores infect the world.
The Darkening
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion
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In The Darkening, strange summer snow and dimming daylight signal a global collapse as alien spores infect the world. Nate and Paula Corwin flee Montana with their children, facing mutated threats, blizzards, and collapsing refugee camps on the road south. A relentless apocalyptic thriller from million-copy bestseller Jasper T. Scott, rated 4.6 stars on Amazon.
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The sun is dimming, the world is ending, and the long journey south is only the beginning.
In the middle of summer, snow falls over Montana. Daylight dims to a ghostly twilight. And at night, glowing alien spores drift from the sky bringing a sickness that can twist the people you love into something unrecognizable. The air grows colder and the infected more dangerous with every passing day.
Nate Corwin, a science teacher, and his wife Paula, a nurse, know that their suburban home won’t hold for long. With their two children, Riley and Jonah, and their loyal golden retriever, Max, they set out for Paula’s family farm in Florida—one place they pray might still be safe—and warm.
But the road south is a gauntlet of horrors: parasite-driven killers, blizzards, collapsing refugee camps, and monsters that hunt in the dark. The only defense—UV light—is feeble at best, and the infected are starting to adapt.
As the alien bloom spreads and the world tilts toward madness, the Corwins will learn that survival isn’t just about keeping the monsters out, it’s about deciding how far you’re willing to go to protect the people you love.
The Darkening is a relentless, heart-pounding journey through a world where the sun is growing dark, the rules are gone, and every step could be your last.
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Best for readers who like philosophical sci-fi, surveillance-state mysteries, nested narratives, and mind-bending puzzles.
Gnomon
Dystopian
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Called “a Pynchonesque mega-novel” by The Washington Post, Gnomon follows inspector Mielikki Neith as she investigates the first death in custody inside a near-future surveillance state where thoughts and memories are recorded. Inside the victim’s neural recordings, she finds impossible lives and a hidden code, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 2,400 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like philosophical sci-fi, surveillance-state mysteries, nested narratives, and mind-bending puzzles.
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From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, comes a virtuosic new novel set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, that is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle.
"A Pynchonesque mega-novel that periodically calls to mind the films of Inception and The Matrix…. What a ride!" —The Washington Post
In the world of Gnomon, citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.' Every action is seen, every word is recorded, and the System has access to its citizens' thoughts and memories—all in the name of providing the safest society in history.
When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. The System doesn't make mistakes, but something isn't right about the circumstances surrounding Hunter's death. Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector and a true believer in the System, is assigned to find out what went wrong. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isn't Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunter's psyche: a lovelorn financier in Athens who has a mystical experience with a shark; a brilliant alchemist in ancient Carthage confronting the unexpected outcome of her invention; an expat Ethiopian painter in London designing a controversial new video game, and a sociopathic disembodied intelligence from the distant future.
Embedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding. In the static between these stories, Neith begins to catch glimpses of the real Diana Hunter—and, alarmingly, of herself. The staggering consequences of what she finds will reverberate throughout the world.
A dazzling, panoramic achievement, and Nick Harkaway's most brilliant work to date, Gnomon is peerless and profound, captivating and irreverent, as it pierces through strata of reality and consciousness, and illuminates how to set a mind free. It is a truly accomplished novel from a mind possessing a matchless wit infused with a deep humanity.
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