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615 past books matching Dystopian
On a sunbaked world shaped by lost civilizations, engineer Pell is summoned to restore an ancient machine hidden inside a forbidding tower.
Still the Sun
Dystopian · Romantasy
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On a sunbaked world shaped by lost civilizations, engineer Pell is summoned to restore an ancient machine hidden inside a forbidding tower. As buried technology awakens, so do unsettling visions and an unexpected connection to the tower’s mysterious keeper. Secrets of the past, slow-burn romance, and forgotten truths collide in this lyrical romantic fantasy.
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An ancient machine holds the secrets of a distant world’s past for two intimate strangers in the latest romantic fantasy adventure by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg.
Pell is an engineer and digger by trade—unearthing and repairing the fascinating artifacts left behind by the mysterious Ancients who once inhabited the sunbaked planet of Tampere. She’ll do anything to help the people of her village survive and to better understand the secrets of what came before.
Heartwood and Moseus are keepers of a forbidding tower near the village of Emgarden. Inside are the remnants of complex machines the likes of which Pell has never seen. Considering her affinity for Ancient tech, the keepers know Pell is their only hope of putting the pieces of these metal puzzles together and getting them running. The tower’s other riddle is Heartwood himself. He is an enigma, distant yet protective, to whom Pell is inexplicably drawn.
Pell’s restoration of this broken behemoth soon brings disturbing visions—and the discovery that her relationship to it could finally reveal the origins of the tower’s strange keepers and the unfathomable reason the truth has been hidden from her.
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A strong match for readers who like system apocalypse LitRPG, progression fantasy, survival challenges, and power-focused character growth.
The Primal Hunter
Fantasy · Cyberpunk · Post-Apocalyptic
Our take
A bestselling LitRPG series opener, The Primal Hunter follows Jake, an ordinary office worker thrust into a monster-filled survival tutorial after Earth is integrated into a vast multiverse. While others struggle, Jake discovers he thrives in a world built around levels, skills, danger, and growing power. A strong match for readers who like system apocalypse LitRPG, progression fantasy, survival challenges, and power-focused character growth.
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On just another average day, Jake finds himself in a forest filled with monsters, dangers, and opportunity...
It was a day like any other when suddenly the world changed. The universe reached a threshold humanity didn’t even know existed, and it was time to finally be integrated into the vast multiverse. A place where power is the only thing anyone can truly rely on.
Jake, a seemingly average office worker, finds himself thrust into this new world. Into a tutorial filled with dangers and opportunities.
His new reality should breed fear and concern. His fellow coworkers falter at every turn. Jake, however, finds himself thriving.
Perhaps... This is the world Jake was meant to be born in.
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When a solar flare plunges Earth into darkness, survival becomes a deadly game.
The Light We Lost
Dystopian
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When a solar flare plunges Earth into darkness, survival becomes a deadly game. The Light We Lost is a pulse-pounding post-apocalyptic thriller with 4.6 stars and over 5,000 reviews. Fans of The Last of Us and SILO won’t be able to look away. Start this edge-of-your-seat survival series today—before the lights go out.
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When the world goes dark, survival turns savage.
After a solar flare knocks out the power grid forever, thirteen-year-old Shiloh wakes beside a dead body with no memory of the night before—and her brother missing. Hunted through the dense Michigan wilderness by a killer who knows what she saw, her only hope is staying one step ahead.
Sheriff Jackson Cross is chasing that same killer, but he needs help—specifically from Eli Pope, a newly released ex-con with revenge on his mind.
And 1600 miles away, Lena Easton begins a desperate journey north with only her rescue dog and grit to guide her through a crumbling America.
Three strangers. One disaster. Everything to lose.
But when all lights fail… who will save you?
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Spanning seven generations and two planets, Walk the Vanished Earth is a luminous literary dystopian novel about ancestry, legacy, and survival.
Walk the Vanished Earth
Dystopian
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Spanning seven generations and two planets, Walk the Vanished Earth is a luminous literary dystopian novel about ancestry, legacy, and survival. With 4.2 stars on Amazon and praise from The New York Times, Erin Swan’s debut will move fans of Station Eleven and Severance. Click now to discover a family saga that’s as haunting as it is hopeful.
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From the Kansas plains in 1873 to the red dust of Mars in 2073, one family’s story echoes across centuries of collapse, survival, and reinvention.
In Walk the Vanished Earth, Samson hunts bison in a young America. Bea draws pictures of a past she can’t explain. Paul builds a floating city above a drowned New Orleans. And Moon—raised on Mars by alien “uncles”—must choose whether to become a mother in a world that no longer remembers Earth.
Told over seven generations, Erin Swan’s haunting debut blends climate fiction, dystopian vision, and intimate family drama. It explores what it means to endure, what we carry through time, and whether legacy matters when the planet itself is vanishing.
This isn’t just the end—it’s the beginning of something radical, and maybe even hopeful.
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Blood Over Bright Haven follows the first woman admitted to an elite mage order as she and a displaced outsider uncover a truth that could upend magic itself.
Blood Over Bright Haven: A Novel
Dystopian · Fantasy · Sci-Fi
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Blood Over Bright Haven follows the first woman admitted to an elite mage order as she and a displaced outsider uncover a truth that could upend magic itself. This dark, cerebral fantasy blends power, prejudice, and sacrifice, earning 4.5 stars on Amazon and more than 122,000 ratings on Goodreads and recognition as an Elle Best Book.
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The first woman ever admitted to a prestigious order of mages unravels a secret conspiracy that could change the practice of magic forever, in this standalone dark fantasy from the author of The Sword of Kaigen.
“Powerful, thought-provoking. . . . Fans of R.F. Kuang’s Babel will find much to admire here, from the intricate magic system to the unflinching exploration of societal issues.”—Booklist
AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
For twenty years, Sciona has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry at the University of Magics and Industry.
When Sciona finally passes the qualifying exam and becomes a highmage, she finds her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues are determined to make her feel unwelcome—and, instead of a qualified lab assistant, they give her a janitor.
What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was not always a janitor. Ten years ago, he was a nomadic hunter who lost his family on their perilous journey from the wild plains to the city. But now he sees the opportunity to understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the privileged in power.
At first, mage and outsider have a fractious relationship. But working together, they uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first.
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The last remnants of humanity drift above a poisoned world, surviving only through dangerous missions to the surface.
Hell Divers
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic · Techno-Thriller
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The last remnants of humanity drift above a poisoned world, surviving only through dangerous missions to the surface. In Hell Divers, elite scavengers plunge from aging airships into the ruins below to recover the parts that keep civilization airborne. When a dive team enters a hostile zone known as Hades, they encounter a new threat rising from the wasteland, one that could destroy humanity’s final refuge.
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The New York Times Bestselling series is now available in Kindle Unlimited for the first time and includes an exclusive NEW novella at the end.
They dive so humanity survives…
More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers—men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.
When one of the remaining airships is damaged in an electrical storm, a Hell Diver team is deployed to a hostile zone called Hades. But there’s something down there far worse than the mutated creatures discovered on dives in the past—something that threatens the fragile future of humanity.
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The world is ending.
The Final Evolution
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk
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The world is ending. Avatars have replaced people. And the last hope for humanity? Avery Cates’ most hated enemy. In this gritty, high-stakes finale, Cates must choose: revenge or redemption. The Final Evolution is a brutal techno-thriller that pulls no punches.
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The world is dying, and Avery Cates is running out of reasons to save it.
With humanity on the brink—avatars replacing people, birth rates vanished, extinction looming—the once-infamous gunner is a shell of who he was. His only remaining target? Canny Orel, the nemesis he’s spent a lifetime hunting. But Orel isn’t exactly human anymore—and he might be the last key to saving what’s left of the species.
When Avery uncovers a way to trick his old enemy, the choice is clear… or is it?
Vengeance has been his fuel for years. But now, it’s salvation or payback. Humanity or revenge.
In this brutal, pulse-pounding finale to the Avery Cates series, the end is here—and only one man can decide how it happens.
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Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and The Aeronaut’s Windlass.
By Fire Above
Dystopian · Fantasy · Sci-Fi
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War just got personal. In By Fire Above, Captain Josette Dupre fights bureaucracy, noble schemers, and enemy occupation to save her hometown. With a sass-fueled crew and a barely-holding-together airship, this military fantasy delivers explosive action and razor-sharp wit. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and The Aeronaut’s Windlass. Click now to join the fight above the clouds.
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Captain Josette Dupre thought war was hell—until the enemy occupied her hometown and imprisoned her mother. Now, she’s ready to burn the Vins to ash. But first, she must battle an even more insidious enemy: Garnia’s pompous nobles and military brass.
With her sarcastic crew, a ship held together by sheer defiance, and the reluctant help of Lord Bernat (and his infuriatingly attractive older brother), Josette sets out to rally support and retake her city. But when the home front becomes a battlefield, the real fight begins.
By Fire Above is a witty, adrenaline-fueled military fantasy packed with explosive aerial battles, sharp banter, and sky-high stakes. Perfect for fans of The Guns Above, Gideon the Ninth, and sharp-tongued heroines who don't wait to be rescued.
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With six months left before an asteroid ends life on Earth, Detective Hank Palace still believes in solving murders.
The Last Policeman
Dystopian
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With six months left before an asteroid ends life on Earth, Detective Hank Palace still believes in solving murders. When a supposed suicide feels wrong, he refuses to let it go—even as society collapses around him. The Last Policeman, winner of the Edgar Award, blends mystery and apocalypse in Ben H. Winters’s acclaimed first novel of the trilogy.
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"[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."—John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns
Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback Original!
What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?
Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact.
The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares.
The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered?
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With 4.6 stars on Amazon and gripping, cinematic suspense, it’s a must-read for fans of Jack Hunt and Grace Hamilton.
Chaos Rising
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Lights out. Planes down. Chicago burns. In Chaos Rising, USA Today bestseller Kyla Stone delivers a pulse-pounding prequel to the Edge of Collapse series. With 4.6 stars on Amazon and gripping, cinematic suspense, it’s a must-read for fans of Jack Hunt and Grace Hamilton. Survive the first moments of collapse—download now and don’t look back.
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On Christmas Eve, the lights go out. Reclusive former soldier Liam Coleman despises crowds and hates bustling downtown Chicago, but his twin brother and his pregnant sister-in-law need him.
Mere minutes after leaving O'Hare, their car abruptly crashes, along with hundreds of other vehicles. Phones stop working. Before anyone can react, the first plane falls from the sky, heading straight for Miracle Mile...
From USA Today Bestselling Author Kyla Stone comes Chaos Rising, the 85-page prequel to the acclaimed Edge of Collapse post-apocalyptic series, a riveting survival thriller for fans of flawed, complex characters and heart-in-your-throat action. Perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Jack Hunt, Boyd Craven, and Grace Hamilton.
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Best for readers who like epic fantasy shaped by apocalypse, oppression, revolution, and dangerous power.
The Fifth Season
Fantasy · Post-Apocalyptic
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Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award and called “intricate and extraordinary” by The New York Times, in a world where earth's power is weaponized, a woman with a secret ability searches for her kidnapped daughter amid global catastrophe and betrayal in The Fifth Season, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 41,900 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like epic fantasy shaped by apocalypse, oppression, revolution, and dangerous power.
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At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)
This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.
It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.
This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
Read the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
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A 4.5-star fan favorite with over 30,000 Goodreads ratings—perfect for readers craving weird, wonderful fantasy with a bite.
The Scar
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Steampunk
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A hijacked prison ship. A floating city built from the bones of piracy. And a linguist caught in a rising tide of horror. The Scar by Locus Award-winner China Miéville is a dark, richly imagined epic of monsters, magic, and rebellion. A 4.5-star fan favorite with over 30,000 Goodreads ratings—perfect for readers craving weird, wonderful fantasy with a bite.
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On a prison ship bound for a distant colony, Bellis Coldwine, a linguist fleeing punishment, dreams only of survival. But fate has darker plans. Captured by pirates, the ship’s passengers are taken to Armada—a lawless floating city built from the hulls of stolen vessels and ruled by the enigmatic Lovers. Here, equality hides under control, and escape is forbidden.
Trapped in a society unlike any other, Bellis must hide her defiance while unearthing Armada’s hidden mission—one that could reshape reality itself. As monstrous forces stir beneath the ocean’s depths, and ancient secrets are revealed, Bellis faces a terrible choice: aid the terrifying vision of Armada’s leaders, or defy them and risk annihilation.
In this dazzling, Locus Award-winning novel, China Miéville charts a course into madness, magic, and mind-bending originality.
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