Dystopia

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...

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...

Silo #2 Before the walls of the silo were built, the seeds of humanity's downfall were already being planted. In Shift, the chilling sequel to Hugh Howey’s "wool", the timeline rewinds to trace the origins of the underground sanctuary and the terrifying science that...

Silo #3 Where Wool uncovered the secret life within the silos and Shift revealed how the subterranean network came to be, Dust brings Hugh Howey’s bestselling trilogy to a tense, apocalyptic conclusion. Now stepping into the role of mayor for Silo 18, Juliette harbors...

Silo #1 In a ruined world where the surface air means instant death, humanity’s sole survivors reside in a subterranean, multi-story silo. Here, survival hinges on absolute obedience: questioning the system is taboo, and dreaming of the outside is treason. The price for such...

 Wool, Shift, Dust, and Silo Stories. Humanity’s last survivors live beneath the earth in a massive, strictly controlled silo—where the most dangerous crime is daring to dream of the surface. In this subterranean world, survival depends on absolute obedience. Rules maintain order, and one...

Spanning over 40 years of South Africa’s past, present, and near future, Masande Ntshanga’s Triangulum is an ambitious, genre-bending literary mystery. In 2040, the South African National Space Agency receives a cryptic package containing a memoir and digital recordings from an anonymous woman claiming...

Carl Stagg, a writer researching imperial power struggles in 17th century Sri Lanka, ekes out a living as a watchman in a factionalized America where confidence in democracy has eroded. Along his nightly patrol, Stagg finds a beaten prostitute, one in a series of...

The hypnotic dystopian cult classic (Pushkin Press Classics). A haunting dystopian science fiction classic set in a world slowly being consumed by an advancing global freeze. As society collapses, a nameless narrator crosses a surreal, nightmarish landscape in search of a mysterious white-haired girl...

St. Leibowits #1 Long after the Flame Deluge has scorched the earth, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz makes a remarkable discovery in the Utah desert: sacred relics from the life of the great saint himself, including a blessed blueprint, a holy...

Phillip Tennent earns his living combing the tideline, salvaging the strange artefacts the Channel washes ashore. Years have passed since the crisis that reshaped the world, though no one can quite explain what happened. Governments have withered, unfamiliar creatures haunt the seas, and an...

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,...

At art school, Enka is instantly captivated by Mathilde—brilliant, original, and impossible to ignore. As Enka struggles to prove herself in a fiercely competitive world, she throws everything into their friendship. But as Mathilde’s success grows, so does the distance between them. Then comes...

From acclaimed Scottish writer Ali Smith comes a moving, genre-blending tale about humanity’s enduring search for meaning. Set in an uncertain near future, the story unfolds in a world where new divisions between people are drawn every day—a not-so-brave new reality shaped by control,...

Arc of a Scythe #2 Rowan and Citra stand on opposite sides of the Scythedom’s moral divide in this chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe, from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. Humans learn from their mistakes. I cannot. I make...

Arc of a Scythe #3 Dictators rise. Prophets emerge. The world trembles under the weight of mounting unrest. In a society that has conquered death, humanity now faces a more dangerous question: will it be undone by the immortal powers it created? Citra and...

Wren Darlington has spent her entire life in the shadows, sharpening her psychic abilities and quietly supporting the rebel Uprising. On the Continent, being Modified is a death sentence—and Wren is one of the most powerful Mods alive. So when a single mistake lands...

Parable, 2. By 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the devastation of her home and family, and brought her vision to life: a fledgling community in Northern California built on the principles of Earthseed, the faith she founded. In a fractured, volatile America—now ruled by...

Parable, 1. As climate catastrophe and economic collapse plunge the early 2020s into chaos, California becomes a landscape of scarcity and violence. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives in a walled community with her preacher father, family and neighbors, clinging to a fragile sense of order...

Two decades after a devastating U.S.–China war, a dominant political party clings to power amid rising unrest. When the American president suddenly dies during a live address, chaos erupts—conspiracies swirl, violence escalates, and the nation teeters on the edge of civil war. Behind the...

In the fifth installment of The Bone Season series, Paige Mahoney awakens in the free world—beyond Scion’s grasp for the first time in over a decade. But half a year of her life is missing, and the path that brought her here is shrouded...

In the electrifying second installment of The Bone Season series, Paige Mahoney has escaped the nightmarish prison of Oxford—but freedom comes at a cost. Now a fugitive in Scion-controlled London, Paige finds herself caught between loyalties. To survive, she must return to the ruthless...

It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked. It's almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant, but that's exactly what sixteen-year-old Vali is doing. She and her family have carved out a stable, happy life in...

In a future shaped by catastrophe, the city of Bulwark stands as humanity’s last stronghold—a walled metropolis ruled by order, sacrifice and a powerful AI that rewards loyalty and obedience. Founded by those who survived a series of global cataclysms, Bulwark honors its elite...

In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. Controlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest,...

Following a fierce battle for the Rose Crown, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over the clairvoyant syndicate of London. But with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilizing the fractured underworld has never seemed so challenging....

A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers...

Considered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished poet seeking fame in the phantasmic world of Berlin...

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—the second book of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, set in the visionary world of Oryx and Crake, is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction....

The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague,...

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamants—this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy has brought the previous two books together in a fitting and joyous conclusion that’s an epic not only of an imagined future but of our...

Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators, and...

Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the publication of Divergent with a special edition four-book boxed set 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. Each...

From the world's #1 bestselling author comes an innovative illustrated thriller set in a world run by machines. The humans who survived the Great War won by the Robots can either submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the...

Katniss Everdeen's adventures may have come to an end, but her story continues to blaze in the hearts of millions worldwide. In The Girl Who Was on Fire - Movie Edition , sixteen YA authors take you back to the world of the Hunger...

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened...

After being expelled from their ancestral home, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia’s aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so...

After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and...