Best New Dystopian Novels - April 2024

The Unknown

For fans of Divergent, The Hunger Games, and Stranger Things who want to discover something new ..."I have read hundreds of books and it is extremely rare for me to be surprised or give 5 stars. I almost always anticipate the plot twists. I thought I had this one all figured out from the very beginning ... [I] couldn't have been more wrong! ... An exhilarating, emotional, fast paced read that I couldn't put down ... This story was utterly unique." - Justine, Book Catharsis ★★★★★EIGHT CHILDREN WERE KIDNAPPED.BUT WHY?Eight kids, ages nine to seventeen, awaken to find that almost every... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1082472972
• ASIN: 1082472972
• ISBN: 1082472972
• Manufacturer: Independently published

The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEMargaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.   Two have grown up as part of the first generation to... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07KVLPYDQ
• ASIN: B07KVLPYDQ
• Manufacturer: Nan A. Talese

The One: A Novel

A Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2018“Just try to put this gripping thriller down once you pick it up.” —AARP“A shock on every other page.” —Wall Street JournalHow far would you go to find The One?A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you’ll be matched with your perfect partner—the one you’re genetically made for.That’s the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1335998853
• ASIN: 1335998853
• ISBN: 1335998853
• Manufacturer: Hanover Square Press

Year One: Chronicles of The One, Book 1

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (December 2017)A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts—Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives…It began on New Year’s Eve.The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed—and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.Where there had been order... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06X6G8FKH
• ASIN: B06X6G8FKH
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

Recruitment: A Dystopian Novel (The Resistance Trilogy Book 1)

In the Valta, no matter what month you were born, everyone is assigned the same birthday. November 1st. It's the anniversary of the day when the government declared war on the Eastern Order. The day you turn seventeen, the Recruiters come to take you away. And no one ever hears from you again. It’s October 31st. Today, Kress is sixteen years old. Tomorrow, she’ll be taken. The good news? So will her best friend Cardyn, and Brohn, the handsome, enigmatic boy she’s avoided all her life. The bad news? Recruitment isn’t what any of them expected.Weeks of training await. Military and psycho... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GZ9MBP8
• ASIN: B07GZ9MBP8

The Amber Project: A Dystopian Sci-fi Novel (The Variant Saga Book 1)

200 years after the world ends, their future begins.In 2157, a mysterious gas known as Variant spreads across the globe, killing or mutating most organic life. The surviving humans take refuge in an underground city, determined to return home. But after generations of failures and botched attempts, hope is beginning to dwindle. That is, until a young scientist makes a unique discovery--and everything changes. Suddenly, there's reason to hope again, and it rests within a group of genetically engineered children that are both human and Variant.Terry is one of these children, mo... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00W2AQ1KO
• ASIN: B00W2AQ1KO
• Manufacturer: Variant Publications

One Second After (A John Matherson Novel Book 1)

• ASIN: B002LATV16
• ASIN: B002LATV16
• Manufacturer: Forge Books

Jezebel: An Angels of War Novella (New Adult Dystopian Technothriller) (Angels of War Series 1.5)

Figuring out how to pay for college used to be Isabella Monroe’s biggest concern, until she started making money with a webcam. Then, one Sunday morning, a post-hookup Uber ride turns into a fight for her life after a nerve agent is released in downtown Los Angeles by terrorists calling themselves the Deciders.Isabella, her driver, and hundreds of other civilians are herded into a college campus turned reeducation camp where they’re forced to accept the teachings of Veritas, a collection of documents that claim the world is run by a cabal of sociopathic elites. Resistance is punished. Thos... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1732306400
• ASIN: 1732306400
• ISBN: 1732306400
• Manufacturer: Masterless Press, LLC

The Handmaid's Tale

• ASIN: B003JFJHTS
• ASIN: B003JFJHTS
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451673310
• UPC: 642688055004
• ASIN: 1451673310
• ISBN: 9781451673319
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Warning

Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no place to run in a community that's been taken--and is being intentionally kept--off the grid. A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed cellular networks fail to resume service. Animals savagely attack humans. And the damaged power plant, where Jordan's father is an engineer, is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07L2TXTS5
• ASIN: B07L2TXTS5
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Transient Echoes: A Dystopian Sci-fi Novel (The Variant Saga Book 2)

It has been three years since the day of the Second Jolt. Thanks to the efforts of a select few, the world is finally moving on. As the Variant air begins to thin, humanity finds itself on the cusp of a new age of exploration.But at what cost?After closing the rift—the source of all Variant—the hybrid child known as Terry has been transported to a distant world, far away from the only home he’s ever known. Completely isolated, and haunted by voices from his past, he wanders through the ruins of an ancient civilization long forgotten. Back on Earth, a young woman named Mei works tirelessl... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01B9U2H50
• ASIN: B01B9U2H50
• Manufacturer: Variant Publications

CyberStorm: A Novel

The incredibly realistic story of one family's struggle to survive the destruction of New York in a massive terror attack. Million-copy bestseller now in development for film by 20th Century Fox."I couldn't put it down...shows how dangerous our transition to an interconnected infrastructure has become." Karic Allega, Joint Military Cyber Command, US NAVYNEW YORK GOES DARK IN THE DEAD OF WINTER...A TERRIFYING MYSTERY BEGINS...BUT WHO IS THE ENEMY? AND WILL THEY STRIKE AGAIN?Mike Mitchell is an average New Yorker struggling just to keep his family together when a string of disasters shreds the b... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00BT4QRHG
• ASIN: B00BT4QRHG
• Manufacturer: Matthew Mather ULC

Configured: Book #1 in the Configured Trilogy

There will come a day... when love will mark her as a traitor.In a society where emotions are nothing and function is everything, Avlyn Lark is just trying to blend in.She's lucky to be alive, unlike her twin brother Ben who died when they were four. And she's fortunate to have been taken from her biological parents and assigned to a Level Two family. But mastering her emotions? That's a problem, especially when a rebel bomb blows up a building right in front of her.Then on Configuration Day, Avlyn's official transition to adulthood, she starts seeing strange visions. And instead of being pla... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01M0XHNFX
• ASIN: B01M0XHNFX
• Manufacturer: Torment Publishing

The Atlantis Gene: A Thriller (The Origin Mystery, Book 1)

THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL TIME...THE HISTORY OF HUMAN ORIGINS...WILL BE REVEALED.* * *Read the novel that started it all: The Atlantis Gene is the first book in A.G. Riddle’s bestselling Origin Mystery trilogy, which has sold OVER THREE MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE, been translated into twenty languages, and is in development to be a major motion picture!* * *70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct.We survived, but no one knows how.Until now.The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time.* * *Off the coast of Antarcti... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00C2WDD5I
• ASIN: B00C2WDD5I
• Manufacturer: Legion Books

The Best of Us : A Novel

Paradise isn't quite what it seems as four college friends meet for an island vacation in this captivating new novel from the acclaimed author of "These Girls." An all-expense-paid week at a luxury villa in

• UPC: 21277570
• Rating: 4.2

Human Again: A Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel

Human Again: A Dystopian Sci-Fi

• UPC: 686918038
• Rating: 4.0

Immurement : A Young Adult Science Fiction Dystopian Novel

The Sweepers are coming. They hunt the young.Sixteen-year-old Derry Connolly lives in perpetual fear of capture. The year is 2069. A scorched post-apocalyptic earth overrun by merciless gangs offers little haven. From the skies, mysterious

• UPC: 53442700
• Rating: 4.7

Grave Predictions : Tales of Mankind's Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny

Sixteen compelling tales of post-apocalyptic societies and dystopian worlds include stories by Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, W. E. B. Du Bois, Harlan Ellison, and

• UPC: 49622605
• Rating: 3.6

Skeleton Blues : A Dystopian Thriller Set in Edinburgh

Edinburgh, spring 2034. The weather's balmy, there's a referendum on whether to join a reconstituted Scotland coming up - and a tourist is found strangled. As usual, maverick detective Quint Dalrymple is called in to

• UPC: 54702836
• Rating: 2.0

My Best Friend's Exorcism : A Novel

An unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist that blends teen angst, adolescent drama, unspeakable horrors, and a mix of '80s pop songs into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller The year is 1988. High school sophomores

• UPC: 55695819
• Rating: 4.0

Break Pointe (Marked Ones Series): A New Adult Dystopian Dance Romance Novel - eBook

As a Marked One doomed by bad genes to die early, Edel has a limited amount of time to make her mark on stage as a professional dancer and pay off her student loans. But

• UPC: 920305174

I'm So Happy for You : A novel about best friends

Wendy's best friend, Daphne, has always been dependably prone to catastrophe. And Wendy has always been there to help. But when Daphne suddenly starts to surpass her in every way, Wendy is not so happy

• UPC: 10762203
• Rating: 3.9

Raven Song : A Dystopian Fantasy

Raven Song is the first of a dark adult dystopian fantasy series, a story of magic, intrigue, love, violence, and the old gods in the shadows who wait for us to notice them

• UPC: 53646521
• Rating: 4.0

Earth's Requiem : Dystopian Urban Fantasy

Resilient, kickass, and determined, Aislinn's walled herself off from anything that might make her feel again. Until a wolf picks her for a bond mate and a Celtic god rises out of legend to claim

• UPC: 744959550