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615 past books matching Dystopian
Best for readers who like post-apocalyptic survival fiction centered on family, societal collapse, and a mother's determination to reunite with her child.
The Day the World Went Quiet
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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On Molly’s first day back at school, an EMP shuts down the power and throws America into collapse. As highways become graveyards and cities burn, her mother, Madison, must make a dangerous journey to reach her daughter. Best for readers who like post-apocalyptic survival fiction centered on family, societal collapse, and a mother's determination to reunite with her child.
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Molly’s first day back at school.
Madison’s first time letting go.
Then the lights went out… and America died.
Now highways are graveyards. Cities burn. And a mother must cross hell itself to reach her daughter before it’s too late. In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic struggle, hope is the fuel that keeps her alive.
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Ideal for readers drawn to dystopian suspense involving institutional control and fractured identity.
Nothing Out There
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult
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Maysie believes she's lucky to live within a secluded facility where troubled girls are trained to become obedient daughters, but those who fail to graduate disappear. When dreams revive memories of a girl the Program says no longer exists, rival mentors and mounting lies threaten everything she's been taught to believe. Ideal for readers drawn to dystopian suspense involving institutional control and fractured identity.
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Poise. Obedience. Purpose.
Within the walls of a secluded facility that reforms troubled girls into obedient daughters, there are only two options: graduate or disappear. Erased and rebuilt from the ruins of herself, Maysie knows little about the future she’s training for, let alone the world outside. Daily sedatives, posture drills, and the constant reminder to smile shape the only life she’s ever known.
She considers herself lucky. She has friends who keep her calm, rules to keep her safe, and a future she’s been taught to want. The guidance of armed enforcers and watchful doctors is a small price to pay for the promise of perfection.
But perfection never lasts. Dreams bleed into memories of a girl they claim no longer exists. Girls who break vanish without explanation. And two rival mentors—each claiming to know what's best for her—pull Maysie into a game she can’t afford to lose. Every lie she uncovers threatens the version of her they’ve built, and the Program knows how to silence girls who know too much.
Only this time, they won’t stop at her memories.
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Ideal for readers of post-apocalyptic science fiction and sweeping quests.
Hiero’s Answer
Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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On a planet recovering from near-total destruction, Per Hiero Desteen, a priest, telepath, and trained killer, has faced bloodthirsty tribes and extraordinary creatures while trying to protect humanity's survivors. Now his journey comes to its conclusion in a story completed by Sterling E. Lanier's goddaughter, Lucy Andrews Cummin. Ideal for readers of post-apocalyptic science fiction and sweeping quests.
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The world ended. People survived.
Per Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath-and a highly trained killer. Through his travels he has fought bloodthirsty tribes, met incredible creatures, learned unbelievable things, all for the sake of protecting the last vestiges of humanity on the remains of a planet that is regrowing after it was nearly entirely destroyed.
He has seen horrors and wonders. He has braved trials beyond belief.
And now, finally, his journey is coming to an end.
Finally completed by Sterling Lanier's goddaughter Lucy Cummin, Hiero Desteen's legend reaches its epic conclusion, more than fifty years after he was first introduced to the world.
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Best for readers who enjoy dark YA dystopian sci-fi romance with engineered soldiers, forbidden attachment, military secrets, and rebellion.
CREATED
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult · Genetic Engineering
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Genetically engineered to kill without emotion, a young Creation and her twin brother are sent to a military base ahead of schedule, where a spreading infection and her forbidden attraction to a soldier named Marc threaten their survival. Best for readers who enjoy dark YA dystopian sci-fi romance with engineered soldiers, forbidden attachment, military secrets, and rebellion.
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SHE WASN'T BORN TO REBEL.
SHE WAS MADE TO DESTROY ANYONE WHO DID.
They tell me that I can't feel.
They're wrong. I'm learning.
It started with a soldier who wasn't afraid of what they made me. Now I want him, and wanting anything for myself could get us both killed.
I am a Creation. Genetically engineered, conditioned to suppress emotion, and trained to kill without question. My twin brother, Lukahn, and I exist for their war. We were built to heal each other by latching. Skin to skin, palm to palm. We can't survive without each other. Rank is how we both live. And if we're going to stay alive, we have to be the best.
I've killed for them. I've put a bullet through a Creation who hesitated, and I didn't feel anything. That's what I was made for.
The real test comes with Separation, when the government finally claims the lives it created. We are ready.
We are not ready for Separation to come early. Or for the newcomer who ruptures my senses before I even learn his name.
They drag us to a military base before we turn eighteen. Inside, every sign of weakness is watched. Outside, something is spreading. It doesn't move like anything human. It doesn't stop when it should. The vaccines meant to protect us from it might be the very thing that exposes what I am.
Then I meet Marc.
A soldier who doesn't look at me like a weapon waiting for orders, or like my brother's missing half. He touches me like he's not supposed to. A hand at my waist. A thumb against my chin. He looks at me like he can see the nightmares I don't want to have. He takes them away, the way Lukahn does. I shouldn't let him get this close. My brother would kill him if he knew.
I tell myself I'll stay away. I run the drills. I take the rank. I don't look at him.
I look at him.
Near Marc, the silence I was trained to live inside begins to break. A pulse. A flaw. Curiosity. Attachment. Want.
I look up "want" in the archive. The definition is wrong. None of the words for it are right. It isn't supposed to apply to me.
That kind of deviation doesn't get you a trial. It gets you a muzzle to the skull and a trigger pull, and the compound moves on before the body's cold.
I'm the one behind the barrel.
Outside, the infection keeps spreading closer. Inside, our training intensifies, our orders change, and the truth behind why Separation came early may lie with the invaders.
I should be preparing for war. Watching my brother's back. Keeping my hands off Marc. But Lukahn and I have spent our lives keeping each other alive, and I'm beginning to wonder if I'll be the reason he dies.
I was built to destroy rebels.
And now I'm becoming one.
CREATED is Book One of the completed Separation Trilogy: dark YA dystopian sci-fi romance with engineered soldiers, forbidden attachment, and the alien truth behind the war they were created to fight.
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A strong match for readers drawn to bleak post-apocalyptic fiction about survival and the bond between father and son.
The Road
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Post-Apocalyptic
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A Pulitzer Prize winner and national bestseller, The Road was called “gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” by the San Francisco Chronicle. It follows a father and son traveling through a burned America toward the coast, scavenging for food and avoiding lawless bands as they struggle to survive. A strong match for readers drawn to bleak post-apocalyptic fiction about survival and the bond between father and son.
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive that “only adds to McCarthy’s stature as a living master. It’s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle).
One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
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A strong fit for readers who enjoy dystopian crime thrillers combining police investigations, political conspiracies, and espionage.
Sundown
Dystopian · Thriller · Political Dystopia · Political Thriller
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Called “A beefy police procedural with well-developed sci-fi and espionage touches.” by Kirkus Reviews, Sundown follows NYCPD detective Nick Garvey in an oil-starved 2057, where the World Council holds the globe in its grip. As he confronts the assassination of the vice president and a dangerous political power struggle, his investigation puts his granddaughter in the hands of kidnappers and leads to a confrontation with the president. A strong fit for readers who enjoy dystopian crime thrillers combining police investigations, political conspiracies, and espionage.
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In 2057, when the world is starved of oil and the whole globe is in the unrelenting grip of the World Council, NYCPD detective Nick Garvey has his plate murderously full, contending with: the assassination of the Vice President and four Secret Service agents; the vicious power struggle between President Lenora Allison and the Supreme Leader of the World Council, Jason Beck; the off-duty avenging of the brutalization of his estranged daughter by her live-in thug; the kidnapping of his granddaughter when he gets too close to the truth about Jason Beck's world domination dirty tricks; and his confrontation with President Lenora Allison which leads to their joint setup in front of a firing squad; but other than that...
"A beefy police procedural with well-developed sci-fi and espionage touches."
- Kirkus Reviews
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A strong match for readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic survival fiction, resource conflicts, and characters forced to fight for their homes.
Dark Desert Rising
Dystopian · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic · Techno-Thriller
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When a solar flare destroys every circuit on Earth, Lizzy's farm, which pulls water from thin air, becomes the last green place in Nevada and a target for armed survivors. Her sister Poppy knows how to fight, but Lizzy must learn to defend what she's built. A strong match for readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic survival fiction, resource conflicts, and characters forced to fight for their homes.
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The lights went out. The desert didn't care. Lizzy built a farm that pulls water from thin air. When a solar flare kills every circuit on earth, it becomes the last green place in Nevada, and every armed survivor wants it. Her sister Poppy knows how to fight. Lizzy has to learn.
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A strong match for readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic survival thrillers, large-scale disasters, and dangerous journeys.
The Family Refuge
Dystopian · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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After being laughed off the G20 stage, a scientist watches her terrifying prediction come true when a solar flare knocks out power across Earth. Now she must travel 2,000 miles through a collapsing country to reach her brother. A strong match for readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic survival thrillers, large-scale disasters, and dangerous journeys.
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They laughed her off the G20 stage. Hours later, the flare she predicted killed every light on Earth. Now the scientist nobody believed must cross 2,000 miles of collapsing country to reach her brother, because being right was the easy part. Surviving it won’t be.
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Ideal for fans of the Terminator universe who enjoy action-packed science fiction, artificial intelligence threats, and post-apocalyptic warfare.
T2: The Future War
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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In the final book of S.M. Stirling’s T2 trilogy, Sarah and John Connor discover that Skynet has become self-aware and humanity's worst nightmare is unfolding. As Judgment Day unleashes global destruction, John leads the resistance against the machines. Ideal for fans of the Terminator universe who enjoy action-packed science fiction, artificial intelligence threats, and post-apocalyptic warfare.
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The Machines are awake -- and aware ...
There is no destiny but the one we have created ...
There is no turning back -- the future war is now.
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A strong match for readers drawn to post-apocalyptic survival fiction with a difficult father-daughter relationship at its center.
EMP No Power No Shelter
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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EMP No Power No Shelter by William Stone follows Charlie, who escaped her father's obsessive preparations at sixteen, only to find that those preparations keep her alive after an EMP disaster. A strong match for readers drawn to post-apocalyptic survival fiction with a difficult father-daughter relationship at its center.
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She thought it was just another drill. He let her believe that for one more hour.
Her father's paranoia cost her a childhood, her inheritance, and years of her life. It was about to buy her every day she had left.
The town called him crazy. The lawyer called it theft. Burning through her dead mother's money on bunkers and guns. Charlie called it a prison and broke out at sixteen.
Then the disaster came, the kind that proves a paranoid man was just a prophet nobody believed, and everything his obsession stole from her became the only reason she lived.
In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic ruin, the father she ran from is the only reason she's still alive.
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This will appeal to readers who want apocalyptic insect horror with criminal investigations and a band of unlikely allies.
The Swarm
Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
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Called “Creepy, crawly, and endlessly dark” by Gabino Iglesias, this horror novel follows Detective Vicky Paterson and two private investigators as an off-cycle cicada emergence becomes a deadly invasion. A bizarre murder, a missing girl, and a shadowy cult intersect as survivors try to uncover the swarm’s purpose. This will appeal to readers who want apocalyptic insect horror with criminal investigations and a band of unlikely allies.
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From the bizarre and audacious imagination of horror author Andy Marino comes a harrowing tale of the insect that will herald the apocalypse …
"The literary equivalent of swallowing a wasp that's crawled inside your Coke can. Do yourself a favor and read this book." —Nick Cutter, author of The Troop
"Creepy, crawly, and endlessly dark, this is Marino's best novel yet." —Gabino Iglesias, Bram Stoker award winning author of The Devil Takes You Home
It begins with cicadas. It will end with the swarm. When a bizarre murder case lands on the desk of Detective Vicky Paterson, it's just the start of her nightmare. On the same day, her young daughter, Sadie, is swarmed by cicadas emerging off-cycle from their seventeen-year pattern. Sadie barely survives, and her condition is critical.
Across town, Will and Alicia, two dysfunctional private investigators, are on the trail of a missing girl and the shadowy cult involved in her disappearance. But after the first wave of insects hit, they are forced to barricade themselves in a motel where they must work together with a group of strangers to outlast the invasion.
Soon the infestation is impossible to contain. Humanity rests on the knife's edge of extinction. And there is a terrible purpose behind the emergence —one that Vicky, Will, Alicia, and a small group of unlikely allies must unravel if they are to survive.
"Marino's work is unlike any other's in the genre—horrifying, complex, fascinating, and utterly unique." – Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of the Wilderwood series
"Relentless, brutal, and brilliant. An apocalyptic tour de force." —Craig DiLouie, author of How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive
"Marino has taken the safety of sensations away from me. Every prickle along my arm, the slightest buzz anywhere near my ear—it's all fodder for nightmares now. Suggesting your skin will crawl after reading this unnerving novel doesn't come close. Your flesh will fly away." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters
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A good pick for readers who like socially focused science fiction about superhuman abilities, prejudice, family, community, and conflict between ordinary and powered people.
The Nobody People
Dystopian
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The Nobody People: When people with extraordinary abilities emerge from hiding, Avi Hirsch realizes his daughter Emmeline is one of them and may be viewed as a threat by an increasingly hostile society, with a 3.57-star average from more than 1,000 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for readers who like socially focused science fiction about superhuman abilities, prejudice, family, community, and conflict between ordinary and powered people.
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When a group of outcasts with extraordinary abilities comes out of hiding, their clash with a violent society will spark a revolution—or an apocalypse.
“Much like the X-Men comics, Proehl masterfully uses science fiction as a lens to examine social inequality and human evil.”—Booklist
Avi Hirsch has always known his daughter was different. But when others with incredible, otherworldly gifts reveal themselves to the world, Avi realizes that her oddness is something more—that she is something more. With this, he has a terrifying revelation: Emmeline is now entering a society where her unique abilities unfairly mark her as a potential threat. And even though he is her father, Avi cannot keep her safe forever.
Emmeline soon meets others just like her: Carrie Norris, a teenage girl who can turn invisible . . . but just wants to be seen. Fahima Deeb, a woman with an uncanny knack for machinery . . . but it’s her Muslim faith that makes the U.S. government suspicious of her.
They are the nobody people—ordinary individuals with extraordinary gifts who want one only thing: to live as equals in an America that is gripped by fear and hatred. But the government is passing discriminatory laws. Violent mobs are taking to the streets. And one of their own—an angry young man seething with self-loathing—has used his power in an act of mass violence that has put a new target on the community. The nobody people must now stand together and fight for their future, or risk falling apart.
The first book of a timely two-part series, The Nobody People is a powerful novel of love and hope in the face of bigotry that uses a world touched by the fantastic to explore our current reality. It is a story of family and community. It is a story of continuing to fight for one another, no matter the odds. It is the story of us.
Bob Proehl will return with The Somebody People!
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