A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Different Flesh by Harry Turtledove
A Gift Upon the Shore by M.K. Wren
A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
After London by Richard Jefferies
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
America City by Chris Beckett
An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
Arslan by M.J. Engh
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Before Mars by Emma Newman
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
Blindness by José Saramago
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Bunker Diaries by Kevin Brooks
California by Edan Lepucki
Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Children of Men by P.D. James
City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Colony by Rob Grant
Contagion by Robin Cook
Crash by J.G. Ballard
Cry, the Beloved Country (dystopian allegory element) by Alan Paton
Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny
Dark Crystal (novelization) by A.C.H. Smith
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Dayworld by Philip José Farmer
Death of Grass by John Christopher
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick & Roger Zelazny
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y by Don DeLillo
Diaspora by Greg Egan
Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Doctor Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach
Elegance of the Hedgehog (dystopian undertones) by Muriel Barbery
Empty World by John Christopher
End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker
Ender’s Game (dystopian military society) by Orson Scott Card
Eon by Greg Bear
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Faithful Ruslan by Georgi Vladimov
Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Feral Nation by Scott B. Williams
Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Genocides by Thomas M. Disch
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Globalhead by Bruce Sterling
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Greybeard by Brian Aldiss
Guards! Guards! (satirical dystopia elements) by Terry Pratchett
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Hard to Be a God by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
He, She and It by Marge Piercy
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
If This Goes On— by Robert A. Heinlein
Infinite Jest (dystopian satire) by David Foster Wallace
Iron Heel by Jack London
Island by Aldous Huxley
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Judge Dredd: America by John Wagner
Kafka on the Shore (dystopian dreamscapes) by Haruki Murakami
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Le Transperceneige (Snowpiercer) by Jacques Lob
Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
Liberty 2070 by Poul Anderson
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
Limitless (pharma dystopia undertone) by Alan Glynn
Lion and the Unicorn by George Orwell
Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson
Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love in the Time of Cholera (social dystopia undertone) by Gabriel García Márquez
Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Maze Runner by James Dashner
Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
Metamorphosis Alpha by James M. Ward
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
New Atlantis by Ursula K. Le Guin
News from Nowhere (utopian/dystopian contrast) by William Morris
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
No Blade of Grass by John Christopher
O-Zone by Paul Theroux
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Out of the Smoke by Gladys Mitchell
Outlander (dystopian future parts) by Diana Gabaldon
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Pawn of Prophecy (social dystopia backdrop) by David Eddings
Pendulum by George Bernard Shaw
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Possessor by John Twelve Hawks
Power of the Dog (narco dystopia) by Don Winslow
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Real-Time World by Christopher Priest
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
Remember, Remember by Phil Rickman
Republic of the Future by Anna Bowman Dodd
Requiem for Homo Sapiens by David Zindell
Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Road by Cormac McCarthy
Road to Nowhere by Meg Elison
Running Man by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
Rust by Julie Mars
Savage Detectives (social decay dystopia) by Roberto Bolaño
Scarlet Plague by Jack London
Season of the Witch by James Leo Herlihy
Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Silent Invasion by Larry Hancock
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Social Contract (dystopian philosophy) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Solaris (social dystopia undertone) by Stanisław Lem
Stand by Stephen King
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Survivalist by Jerry Ahern
Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin
Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
Terminus Man by Colin Kapp
Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Them by Joyce Carol Oates
Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
Torchwood: Children of Earth by John Fay
Transcendent by Stephen Baxter
Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis
Tropic of Cancer (banned dystopia context) by Henry Miller
Troika by Alastair Reynolds
True Names by Vernor Vinge
Tuf Voyaging (dystopian control themes) by George R.R. Martin
Turn of the Screw (dystopian allegory) by Henry James
Twilight Zone Stories (various dystopias) by Rod Serling
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd
Voices of Time by J.G. Ballard
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas
Wall by John Lanchester
War with the Newts by Karel Čapek
Watchmen (dystopian elements) by Alan Moore
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Wool by Hugh Howey
World Inside by Robert Silverberg
World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler
World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Yellow Arrow by Viktor Pelevin
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
