Dystopian
Every dystopian author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Dystopian fiction takes one thing that's wrong with the world and lets it win. Read in order, these series trace how far it goes.
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown is an American author who writes young adult fantasy novels, best known for the Red Rising series that...
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Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng is an American novelist whose domestic dramas explore family secrets, identity, and the fault lines of community. Born...
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Ernest Cline
Ernest Cline is an American author of science fiction novels and a screenwriter. He is also a spoken word artist....
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Gabrielle Zevin
What happens when a writer understands both the architecture of story and the ache of human connection? Gabrielle Zevin happens....
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Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, journalist, and travel writer who has built a career spanning fiction and editorial work....
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Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin is an American author of horror and science fiction. Raised in New England, he is a graduate of...
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Noah Hawley
Noah Hawley is an American author of literary fiction. He is also an Emmy, Golden Globe, PEN, Critics’ Choice, and...
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Susan Ee
Susan Ee is an American novelist who writes young adult fantasy and was a lawyer before turning to fiction full-time....
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Tom Rob Smith
Tom Rob Smith is an English novelist who writes historical fiction and thrillers. He was born in 1979 to a...
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Derek B. Miller
Derek B. Miller is an American author and international affairs specialist who writes crime fiction. He spent over a decade...
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Natasha Pulley
Natasha Pulley writes historical fiction with a commitment to authenticity that takes her around the world. Born in Cambridge and...
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James Wesley Rawles
James Wesley Rawles is an American author of survivalist fiction and nonfiction. He is also a rancher and the founder...
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Axie Oh
Axie Oh is an American author who writes young adult fantasy and contemporary romance, often drawing on her Korean heritage...
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Peng Shepherd
Peng Shepherd is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels. She made her debut in 2018 with The...
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Veronica Rossi
Veronica Rossi is an American author who writes young adult dystopian fiction with romance at its heart. Born in Rio...
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Drew Magary
Drew Magary is an American author and columnist who writes both speculative fiction and nonfiction, moving between dystopian novels and...
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C. Robert Cargill
C. Robert Cargill is an American science fiction writer who first reached readers with Dreams and Shadows in 2013, though...
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Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill is a Canadian author who writes novels and nonfiction, much of it shaped by questions of identity and...
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Michael Mammay
Michael Mammay is an American science fiction novelist who built his career on military SF before stepping into broader speculative...
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Heather O’Neill
Heather O’Neill is a Canadian novelist, poet, and screenwriter born and raised in Montreal. She attended McGill University and spent...
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Steven Price
Steven Price, a Canadian poet and novelist, received the Gerald Lampert Award for poetry in 2007 and the ReLit Award...
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Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May is an American fantasy novelist who made her debut in 2013 with The Falconer, the first book in...
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Ken Grimwood
Ken Grimwood was an American novelist best known for his book Replay. The novel, first published in 1987, was nominated...
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Nadine Brandes
Nadine Brandes is an American author of young adult novels who once spent four days as a sea cook for...
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Matt Richtel
Matt Richtel is an American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes mysteries and thrillers. Richtel's reporting for The New...
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Adam Sternbergh
Adam Sternbergh is a Canadian-American author of future-noir thrillers. He made his debut in 2014 with Shovel Ready, a novel...
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Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey is an American author of novels and short stories. Her books include Biography of X, Nobody Is Ever...
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Jonathan Moore
Jonathan Moore is an American author who writes crime thrillers. Before he began his writing career, Moore worked a variety...
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Laura Van Den Berg
Laura van den Berg is an American writer who works in both the short story and the novel, bringing a...
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Joan He
Joan He made her debut as a novelist in 2019 with Descendant of the Crane, a YA fantasy that introduced...
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Jennifer Rush
Jennifer Rush is an American author of young adult fantasy novels. She began writing fiction at age five, preferring invented...
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Cindy Pon
Cindy Pon is an American author who writes young adult fantasy and thrillers centered on Asian characters and worlds rarely...
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Jem Tugwell
Jem Tugwell writes near-future detective thrillers and psychological thrillers. He earned his Crime Writing MA from City University, and his...
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Laura Pohl
Laura Pohl is a Brazilian author who writes young adult science fiction and fantasy. Born in Germany to Brazilian parents...
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Daniel Sweren-Becker
Daniel Sweren-Becker is an American author who writes YA dystopian thrillers and works across television and theater. Originally from Manhattan,...
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Debra Driza
In 2013, a former physical therapist published a YA science fiction thriller that introduced readers to Mila, a girl who...
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Alechia Dow
Alechia Dow is a young adult and middle grade author who made her debut in 2020 with The Sound of...
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Charlotte Nicole Davis
Charlotte Nicole Davis is an American author who writes fantasy westerns that center women of color in a genre that...
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Kieran Shea
Kieran Shea is an American author of science fiction novels, heralded for his Koko series, also known as the EBK...
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Yvonne Ventresca
Yvonne Ventresca writes suspenseful young adult novels and short stories. Her young adult thriller, BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES, won a...
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Leah Thomas
Leah Thomas is an American author who writes young adult speculative fiction. She is best known for Because You’ll Never...
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Kate A. Boorman
Kate A. Boorman writes speculative fiction novels and made her debut in 2014 with the novel Winterkill. She was born...
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Wayne Simmons
Wayne Simmons is an Irish author of horror novels whose work has been published internationally. Before releasing his debut novel,...
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Julianne Pachico
Julianne Pachico is a British-American author of literary fiction. Born in Cambridge, England, she spent her childhood in Cali, Colombia,...
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A.J. Steiger
A.J. Steiger writes young adult fiction that blends the familiar with the fantastical, drawing from her lifelong experience in the...
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Rigel Carson
Rigel Carson, the pen name of suspense and mystery writer Maggie Toussaint, is an award-winning author with a background as...
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Christopher Swiedler
Christopher Swiedler is an American author who made his debut in 2020 with In The Red, stepping into the literary...
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