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616 past books matching Dystopian
Renna never expected to fall for a prince—especially one promised to her stepsister.
The Promised Prince
Dystopian · Urban Fantasy
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Renna never expected to fall for a prince—especially one promised to her stepsister. But Prince Trev’s charm and their undeniable connection make him impossible to resist. Torn between duty and desire, both must choose: sacrifice their love, or risk everything for a chance at happiness in a world bound by rules.
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He's bound by duty. She's bound to forget him. But love isn't following the rules.
Eighteen-year-old Renna Degray dreams of romance and a bright future—until a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger turns her world upside down. When she discovers the man she’s falling for is Trev, the Prince of Albion, betrothed to her stepsister, Renna is forced to bury her feelings. But with his charm, humor, and undeniable connection to her, ignoring him proves harder than expected.
For Trev, love was never part of the plan. He must secure a marriage alliance to protect his kingdom, a responsibility he’s never questioned—until now. Yet, the Council of Essentials controls every choice he makes.
Will Trev and Renna sacrifice everything for love, or let duty tear them apart?
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Fawn’s new life reveals brutal truths beneath its polished surface.
The Other Side
Dystopian · Dark Fantasy
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Fawn’s new life reveals brutal truths beneath its polished surface. Faced with forces that threaten both love and justice, she must bridge two worlds to confront her own past—and humanity’s dark future. But in a place where power rules, can Fawn find a path to freedom before it’s too late?
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In a world where survival means accepting fate, can hope ever lead to freedom?
Fawn has been thrust into a life she never asked for, forced to adapt to a world far removed from her sheltered existence. At first, she clings to the idea that love and loyalty will be enough to guide her through.
But as the illusions of her new reality crumble, Fawn is confronted with the harsh truth: power is merciless, and justice is a fragile ideal. Torn between two worlds, she realizes that bridging them may be her only hope to face her own past demons—and humanity’s darkest future.
In a fight against powerful forces, can Fawn rewrite her destiny, or will the world’s cruelty swallow her whole?
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Fawn and Brayson escape to a quiet village by the Ruby Mountains, where Fawn begins to feel truly alive.
The World that Was
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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Fawn and Brayson escape to a quiet village by the Ruby Mountains, where Fawn begins to feel truly alive. But buried secrets and whispers from her past threaten her newfound peace, pulling her back toward a fate she thought she’d left behind. Some truths, it seems, refuse to stay hidden.
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Life is meant for the living... but some pasts won’t let go.
After escaping the horrors of The Nocere, Fawn and Brayson stumble upon a secluded village nestled against the Ruby Mountains. Here, among the villagers’ quiet strength, Fawn experiences a new sense of freedom—and a glimpse of what it means to be truly alive.
But shadows linger. Rumors and buried secrets threaten to unravel her fragile peace, as the haunting pull of the past grows stronger. Fawn’s hard-won serenity begins to crack, and she’s forced to confront a truth that may reshape her destiny.
Can Fawn outrun her past, or is she bound to face the fate she fears most?
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In a world split between the bee-immune Green Zone and the deadly Dead Zone, seventeen-year-olds River and Echo are forced to confront their shared survival.
Harvest Day
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult · Urban Fantasy
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In a world split between the bee-immune Green Zone and the deadly Dead Zone, seventeen-year-olds River and Echo are forced to confront their shared survival. As they each challenge what they’ve been taught about bees—and each other—they uncover a threat far greater than they could have imagined.
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The sixth wave of extinction hit hard: bees vanished, economies crumbled, and ecosystems collapsed. Genetic modifications saved the species—but at a cost. Now, bees’ venom is lethal to humans.
River, seventeen, has only known life in the Green Zone, where immunity to bee venom allows his community to thrive. Echo, his age, was born in the Dead Zone, where bees are exterminated and survival means raiding the Green Zone’s guarded borders. Each relies on the other’s world for survival, yet they’ve been raised as enemies.
As their immunity is put to the test, River and Echo face truths that shake everything they’ve believed.
Is humanity’s true enemy the bees—or something far darker within their own walls?
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Inside the dome, Emery feels protected—until her brother falls ill, forcing her beyond the Wall of Fire in search of a cure.
Wall of Fire
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult
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Inside the dome, Emery feels protected—until her brother falls ill, forcing her beyond the Wall of Fire in search of a cure. Thrust into brutal trials with her long-lost love as her only ally, Emery uncovers dark secrets that threaten not only her life but the fate of everyone she loves.
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The last safe haven—or a deadly illusion?
Inside the dome city, Emery feels protected from the deadly pandemic that ravages the outside world. But when her brother succumbs to a strange illness, she defies every rule, crossing the Wall of Fire to find a cure. Her plan backfires, and she’s thrust into a brutal gauntlet of trials that will decide if she’s exiled or can return to save her brother.
Amidst the trials, Emery encounters Eason—the guy she’s secretly loved, now her unexpected ally. But as hidden agendas and dangerous alliances unfold, Emery realizes trusting the wrong person could endanger everything she holds dear.
Is the sanctuary she’s always trusted hiding the most dangerous threat of all?
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Sixteen-year-old bearer of humanity’s last knowledge, she faces a choice: share it with the world or let it fall into the hands of the ruthless Wraith Lord.
The Knowledge Seeker
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult
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Sixteen-year-old bearer of humanity’s last knowledge, she faces a choice: share it with the world or let it fall into the hands of the ruthless Wraith Lord. In a post-apocalyptic world on the edge of another Dark Age, she must risk everything to protect the Knowledge—or watch humanity descend into darkness.
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I never asked to hold the last remnants of your civilization’s knowledge, but at sixteen, that burden is mine.
Six hundred years after climate-fueled wars ended your world, only printed books survived—and now every piece of human knowledge is stored in a device around my neck, accessible only to me. With society on the brink of another Dark Age, I must find a way to share this knowledge with the world.
But the Wraith Lord has other plans. Ruthless and power-hungry, he will stop at nothing to claim the Knowledge for himself, dooming humanity to endless darkness and servitude.
To save the world, I must risk everything. Can I unlock the Knowledge for all—or will I lose it to the Wraith Lord’s grasp?
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In a future where survival is automated, freedom becomes the first casualty.
This Time We Lose
Dystopian · Techno-Thriller · Time Travel
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In a future where survival is automated, freedom becomes the first casualty. In 2188, Landry lives inside a ration city governed by an all-controlling AI that decides who eats, heals, and endures. Secretly aligned with MAGERA, a covert time-travel resistance, she risks everything to undo the decisions that led to Earth’s collapse. This dystopian thriller explores control, climate ruin, and the cost of rewriting history.
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In the year 2188, survival is automated—but living is another matter entirely.
Landry’s every need is controlled by Radan, an all-powerful AI. Food is rationed. Health is monitored. Emotions are irrelevant. In this future, staying alive is a privilege, not a right.
Landry lives in a ration city—safe, fed, and watched. But safety isn't freedom. And survival isn’t living.
She secretly works for MAGERA, a covert organisation with one mission: travel back in time to stop the events that triggered Earth’s collapse.
Because in this world, food is scarcer than gold, climate change is irreversible, and AI is the last authority.
Can they identify the turning points in history before it’s too late to change them?
A gripping tale of rebellion, survival, and rewriting the future.
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Eight kids wake up far from home, trapped in a harsh world where strict rules come with deadly consequences.
The Unknown
Dystopian
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Eight kids wake up far from home, trapped in a harsh world where strict rules come with deadly consequences. Struggling to survive and searching for answers, they confront haunting questions: Why were they taken, and will they ever escape? In a place where trust is scarce, every decision could be fatal.
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Eight children, ages nine to seventeen, wake up in a place that feels like a nightmare. Taken from their beds in the dead of night, they find themselves in a stark, unforgiving world with strict rules—and severe punishments for disobedience.
Among them is thirteen-year-old Jamie, who quickly realizes that survival requires teamwork, courage, and trust in strangers. But as they struggle to adjust, unsettling questions gnaw at them all: Why were they chosen? Who brought them here? And what will happen if they don’t follow the rules?
As alliances form and fractures appear, the stakes grow higher with every choice. Will they escape this twisted reality, or will their captors' game claim them one by one?
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In the wake of an EMP strike, veteran John Sheridan is stranded in the Black Hills, where survival turns deadly.
When The World Turns Dark
Dystopian
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In the wake of an EMP strike, veteran John Sheridan is stranded in the Black Hills, where survival turns deadly. Meanwhile, his daughter Laura races through a hurricane-ravaged Florida to save her son, facing threats from the storm—and from those desperate enough to exploit it. Their family’s survival is on the line.
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When an EMP cripples the electrical grid, John Sheridan, a guilt-ridden veteran, is left stranded in the Black Hills with failing vision and a mysterious local girl. Alone in a remote cabin, John must confront both his past and a dark secret as survival takes on new urgency in the face of a nationwide blackout.
Meanwhile, his daughter Laura refuses to evacuate her Florida home without her surviving son, braving a deadly hurricane to reach him. But her journey through chaos attracts dangerous attention, forcing her to face threats greater than the storm itself.
As darkness falls and desperation rises, both father and daughter must risk everything to protect what remains of their fractured family. But in a world stripped of order, will they find each other in time?
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Survival after the end of the world demands choices no one should have to make.
The Fortress
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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Survival after the end of the world demands choices no one should have to make. In The Fortress, a former teacher named Sim builds a sanctuary for orphaned children in a plague-ravaged wasteland and trains them to defend it. When a brutal marauder leader lays siege to their refuge, the young survivors must prove whether loyalty, discipline, and hard lessons can protect the fragile world they have built.
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Winner of the Literary Titan Award 2025
"A pulsating masterpiece." --Eric Ferrar, Readers Favorite
A teacher in his old life. A warrior now.
In a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by plague, Sim molds a band of orphans to be child soldiers in an epic battle for survival. As their fortress stands tall against the chaos, Sim trains his young charges in the art of war, crafting them into a formidable force of resilience and unity. Their survival skills are honed, their courage tested, and their loyalty unbreakable.
But when the ruthless Zagan and his horde of marauders launch a relentless and bloody siege, the orphans face their greatest challenge yet. With destruction looming and the devil's emissary at their gates, Sim and his fortress of flesh and blood must rise to the occasion. The fate of their world rests on their shoulders.
Can Sim's tactical genius and the orphans' valor withstand the storm of evil, or will their sanctuary crumble under the weight of darkness?
Dive into this pulse-pounding saga of courage and redemption.
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In a world reshaped by a virus that transformed the dead into relentless predators, journalists Georgia and Shaun Mason uncover a conspiracy that could alter everything.
The Rising
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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In a world reshaped by a virus that transformed the dead into relentless predators, journalists Georgia and Shaun Mason uncover a conspiracy that could alter everything. With the infected at their heels and a truth that refuses to stay buried, they’ll risk everything to expose a deadly cover-up.
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The truth won’t rest, and neither will Georgia Mason. She’s a journalist in a world where humanity’s greatest cures created a new horror: a virus that drives its victims to one, insatiable command—FEED.
Twenty years after this virus spread like wildfire, society hangs by a thread. Georgia and her brother, Shaun, live in the shadow of the Rising, fighting to uncover stories most fear to touch. But when they stumble upon a conspiracy linked to the infected, they’re drawn into a deadly game with stakes higher than they ever imagined.
Their quest for the truth could change the world—or cost them their lives. As the infected close in, Georgia has only one plea: Rise up while you can.
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As Earth collapses, Jared Morgan finds refuge in the Sanctuary, an underground city controlled by a ruthless leader.
The Book of Jared
Dystopian · Techno-Thriller
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As Earth collapses, Jared Morgan finds refuge in the Sanctuary, an underground city controlled by a ruthless leader. But when Jared discovers a secret to time travel hidden in his DNA, he must decide whether to escape to the past or remain trapped in a future ruled by fear and control.
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In the Sanctuary, survival comes at a steep price.
Jared Morgan escapes the Earth’s destruction by finding refuge in the Sanctuary, an underground city carved into Poland’s salt mines. But as tensions rise below, Jared realizes the true threat isn’t the crumbling surface world—it’s David, the ruthless leader who demands total control over every citizen.
Jared and his grandfather hold a powerful secret: DNA can map time travel. As David’s grip tightens and the Sanctuary becomes a prison, Jared must find the courage to escape—by traveling to the past.
Will he break free before he loses himself to the forces controlling his future? Or is there no escape from the Sanctuary’s deadly grasp?
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