Dystopia

Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day...

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses... Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those...

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone...

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred...

You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. You know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion that wipes out every man-made structure on Earth and turns the surviving humans into unwilling contestants on a...

In a bleak future where totalitarian rule is absolute, Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history to fit the Party’s ever-changing narrative. Outwardly obedient, Winston secretly despises the regime that punishes independent thought and demands unwavering loyalty to Big Brother. As...

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is...

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full...

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 women...

Red Rising Saga, 1. Darrow is a Red—part of the lowest caste in a color-coded society stretched across the solar system. Deep beneath the surface of Mars, he and his fellow laborers mine tirelessly, believing their sacrifice is building a better world for future...

The novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank...

The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive. 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...

The Southern Reach Series #1. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed what remains of human civilization, and every expedition into its borders has ended in disaster, or death. In Annihilation, we follow the...

A stunning deluxe edition of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. This paperback edition features gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and an iconic new cover.  It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the...

The stunning graphic novel adaptation. A must-read and collector’s item for fans of “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is...

On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its...

When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many...

A stunning deluxe edition of Catching Fire, book two in the Hunger Games series. This paperback edition features gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and an iconic new cover.  Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute...

The Chrysalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, who exist in a state of constant alert for any deviation from what they...

What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind—and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants?  Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that...

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Divergent with a special edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling series that captured the hearts of millions of readers and inspired a series of major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley. This edition features exclusive content from Veronica...

Dungeon Crawler Carl #6 Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, have survived longer and leveled up higher than anyone ever thought they could in the galaxy’s most popular reality show, but after the shocking conclusion of the seventh level, it’s...

Red Rising Saga, 5. He broke the chains—then he broke the world. A decade after leading a revolution and founding a Republic, Darrow is an outlaw. Cast out, his fleet shattered, he wages a rogue war on Mercury—outmatched and outgunned. Is he still a...

After the chaos of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut reach the dungeon’s tenth floor, where they’re thrust into a deceptively simple challenge: race from point A to point B, avoid last place, upgrade, repeat—while the tracks grow deadlier each round. But glitches are spreading,...

Red Rising Saga, 2. Born a Red, Darrow toiled in the mines beneath Mars’s surface, enduring brutal labor while believing he was helping build a brighter future for generations to come. That faith proves a lie. The Society he served thrives on deception, and...

Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy. Murderbot would like to be left alone. The universe has other plans. The second paperback collection of The Murderbot Diaries brings together Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy, continuing the journey of everyone’s favorite media-loving, anxiety-ridden SecUnit with a growing sense...

In the far future, humanity is nearly extinct. Scattered across the planet in small tribes, people live under the watchful care of mysterious "Mothers." Some children are born from laboratories using the cells of dolphins and rabbits; others draw sustenance from light and water...

In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to...

Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career...

Dungeon Crawler Carl #7 The ninth floor. Faction Wars. Nine armies enter, led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. The winning team must capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, betrayal ....

A Novel in Letters. Ella Minnow Pea lives a quiet life on the island of Nollop, named after the creator of the famous pangram, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” But when the island’s ruling Council begins banning letters of the...

Arc of a Scythe #1 A world without hunger, disease, war, or suffering. Humanity has conquered every hardship — even death itself. Yet life must still be limited, and that burden falls to the Scythes, the only individuals permitted to end it, charged with...

Seth drowns, desperate and alone. But then he wakes. Naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. And where is he? The street seems familiar, but everything is abandoned, overgrown, covered in dust. He remembers dying, his skull bashed against the rocks. Has he woken up in...

Widely regarded as the greatest horror novel by one of the greatest horror writers of all time, The Stand is a true modern classic. First published in 1978 and republished in 1990 in its complete, unabridged form—with 150,000 words restored from the original edition—this...

A woman endlessly wanders a mysterious forest after an unimaginable war. In 1940s Casablanca, a teenage girl faces severe consequences for questioning authority. Trapped in a loveless marriage, a young Belgian woman begins to confront her own desires. These three novellas—the first works by...

Centuries ago, the robots of Panga achieved self-awareness, set aside their tools, and disappeared into the wilderness. Over time, their departure became the stuff of myth and legend. Everything changes when a tea monk encounters a robot who has returned to honor an ancient...

Kady believed the hardest thing she'd ever face was ending her relationship with Ezra. Then her planet was attacked. When a ruthless corporation launches a devastating assault on their remote colony world, Kady and Ezra barely escape aboard an evacuation fleet. Separated by circumstance...

As a choking smog wipes out crops and collapses her career, a chef flees a bleak city for a mysterious mountaintop colony untouched by the world’s decline. There, amid clear skies and rare ingredients, her enigmatic employer and his daughter have created a lavish...

Red Rising Series, 6. The Reaper is a legend—hero of the Rising and breaker of chains. But he is also Darrow, a husband, father, and friend born from the red soil of Mars. Stranded after a crushing defeat on Mercury, Darrow longs to return...

From Megha Majumdar, the acclaimed author of A Burning, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a gripping new novel set in a near-future Kolkata, India—a city ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, where two families’ fierce love for their children sets them...

Just after landing at LAX following an overseas conference, Sara is stopped by agents from the Risk Assessment Administration and given shocking news: according to an algorithm that analyzes dreams, she is on the verge of committing a violent crime—against her own husband. For...

A stunning deluxe edition of Mockingjay, book three in the Hunger Games series. This paperback edition features gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and an iconic new cover. Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. There are...

Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas. Not until...

Sofia Bottom lives in Elysia, a small country forgotten by Europe. But inside its borders, the old myths of trees that come alive and faeries who live among their roots have given way to an explosion of the arts and the consolations of philosophy....

Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions. His home is a shared 20...

Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really...

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the...

Two hundred years after civilization was destroyed by the Blast, Benedikt has a modest life: he transcribes old books for the great leader Fyodor Kuzmich, has a home, and has managed to avoid mutation and the ever-watchful Saniturions. But beyond his world lurks the...

When Earth is invaded by an alien species that quietly takes control of human minds, few people remain free. Melanie Stryder is expected to become just another host, but even after the alien known as Wanderer occupies her body, she refuses to surrender her...

The Broken Earth, 1. At the end of the world, a woman with a dangerous secret power must find her kidnapped daughter while hiding the very ability that could condemn her. As a massive rift splits the world's only continent, ash fills the sky,...