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Dystopian Novel Rankings

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The 100 most defining dystopian, totalitarian, and post-collapse novels in literature, ranked by historical importance and critical standing.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four β€” George Orwell (1949)β€”
Brave New World β€” Aldous Huxley (1932)β€”
Fahrenheit 451 β€” Ray Bradbury (1953)β€”
The Handmaid's Tale β€” Margaret Atwood (1985)β€”
We β€” Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)β€”
The Road β€” Cormac McCarthy (2006)β€”
Children of Men β€” P.D. James (1992)β€”
A Clockwork Orange β€” Anthony Burgess (1962)β€”
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? β€” Philip K. Dick (1968)β€”
Never Let Me Go β€” Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)β€”
The Dispossessed β€” Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)β€”
Parable of the Sower β€” Octavia E. Butler (1993)β€”
Animal Farm β€” George Orwell (1945)β€”
The Giver β€” Lois Lowry (1993)β€”
Neuromancer β€” William Gibson (1984)β€”
Station Eleven β€” Emily St. John Mandel (2014)β€”
Oryx and Crake β€” Margaret Atwood (2003)β€”
The Iron Heel β€” Jack London (1908)β€”
Darkness at Noon β€” Arthur Koestler (1940)β€”
Lord of the Flies β€” William Golding (1954)β€”
Canticle for Leibowitz β€” Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959)β€”
The Trial β€” Franz Kafka (1925)β€”
The Hunger Games β€” Suzanne Collins (2008)β€”
The Man in the High Castle β€” Philip K. Dick (1962)β€”
Parable of the Talents β€” Octavia E. Butler (1998)β€”
Snow Crash β€” Neal Stephenson (1992)β€”
The Chrysalids β€” John Wyndham (1955)β€”
Cat's Cradle β€” Kurt Vonnegut (1963)β€”
The Drowned World β€” J.G. Ballard (1962)β€”
High-Rise β€” J.G. Ballard (1975)β€”
I Am Legend β€” Richard Matheson (1954)β€”
The Day of the Triffids β€” John Wyndham (1951)β€”
The Memory Police β€” Yoko Ogawa (1994)β€”
Kallocain β€” Karin Boye (1940)β€”
The Time Machine β€” H.G. Wells (1895)β€”
Slaughterhouse-Five β€” Kurt Vonnegut (1969)β€”
Wool β€” Hugh Howey (2011)β€”
The Stand β€” Stephen King (1978)β€”
Player Piano β€” Kurt Vonnegut (1952)β€”
Make Room! Make Room! β€” Harry Harrison (1966)β€”
The Running Man β€” Stephen King (1982)β€”
The Long Walk β€” Stephen King (1979)β€”
The Postman β€” David Brin (1985)β€”
A Scanner Darkly β€” Philip K. Dick (1977)β€”
Ubik β€” Philip K. Dick (1969)β€”
Red Rising β€” Pierce Brown (2014)β€”
V for Vendetta β€” Alan Moore (1988)β€”
The Year of the Flood β€” Margaret Atwood (2009)β€”
MaddAddam β€” Margaret Atwood (2013)β€”
The Testaments β€” Margaret Atwood (2019)β€”
Blindness β€” JosΓ© Saramago (1995)β€”
The Lathe of Heaven β€” Ursula K. Le Guin (1971)β€”
The Sheep Look Up β€” John Brunner (1972)β€”
Stand on Zanzibar β€” John Brunner (1968)β€”
The Jagged Orbit β€” John Brunner (1969)β€”
Battle Royale β€” Koushun Takami (1999)β€”
On the Beach β€” Nevil Shute (1957)β€”
The City of Ember β€” Jeanne DuPrau (2003)β€”
Catching Fire β€” Suzanne Collins (2009)β€”
Mockingjay β€” Suzanne Collins (2010)β€”
The Maze Runner β€” James Dashner (2009)β€”
Divergent β€” Veronica Roth (2011)β€”
The Power β€” Naomi Alderman (2016)β€”
Tender Is the Flesh β€” Agustina Bazterrica (2017)β€”
Feed β€” M.T. Anderson (2002)β€”
Mockingbird β€” Walter Tevis (1980)β€”
The Space Merchants β€” Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth (1952)β€”
Alas, Babylon β€” Pat Frank (1959)β€”
Earth Abides β€” George R. Stewart (1949)β€”
Swan Song β€” Robert R. McCammon (1987)β€”
The Dog Stars β€” Peter Heller (2012)β€”
Severance β€” Ling Ma (2018)β€”
The Passage β€” Justin Cronin (2010)β€”
The Unit β€” Ninni Holmqvist (2006)β€”
This Perfect Day β€” Ira Levin (1970)β€”
The Stepford Wives β€” Ira Levin (1972)β€”
When the Sleeper Wakes β€” H.G. Wells (1899)β€”
Swastika Night β€” Katharine Burdekin (1937)β€”
Anthem β€” Ayn Rand (1938)β€”
Atlas Shrugged β€” Ayn Rand (1957)β€”
The Hopkins Manuscript β€” R.C. Sherriff (1939)β€”
The Wanting Seed β€” Anthony Burgess (1962)β€”
Level 7 β€” Mordecai Roshwald (1959)β€”
R.U.R. β€” Karel Čapek (1920)β€”
War with the Newts β€” Karel Čapek (1936)β€”
The Snail on the Slope β€” Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1966)β€”
Definitely Maybe β€” Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1974)β€”
Hard to Be a God β€” Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1964)β€”
The Possibility of an Island β€” Michel Houellebecq (2005)β€”
Submission β€” Michel Houellebecq (2015)β€”
The End of August β€” Yu Miri (2020)β€”
Walkaway β€” Cory Doctorow (2017)β€”
Little Brother β€” Cory Doctorow (2008)β€”
The Windup Girl β€” Paolo Bacigalupi (2009)β€”
The Water Knife β€” Paolo Bacigalupi (2015)β€”
Borne β€” Jeff VanderMeer (2017)β€”
Annihilation β€” Jeff VanderMeer (2014)β€”
The Marrow Thieves β€” Cherie Dimaline (2017)β€”
Gathering Blue β€” Lois Lowry (2000)β€”
Messenger β€” Lois Lowry (2004)β€”