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20 Best Dystopian Novels According to shortlist.com

Humanity aims for constant progress; movement towards a superior standard of living.

But what happens when everything goes wrong instead? A mainstay of science fiction writing over the years has been to speculate about a future which has taken a distinct turn for the worse. There's no beautiful end point, only a joyless, dysfunctional dystopia.

We take a look at the 20 greatest novels focusing on the darker side of life.
 
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
	
Article 5 - Kristen Simmons
 	
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
 	
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick
 	
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
 	
Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
 	
Logan's Run - William F. Nolan
 	
Neuromancer - William Gibson
 	
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
 	
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
 	
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
 	
The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
 	
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
 	
The Iron Heel - Jack London
 	
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
 	
The Running Man - Stephen King
 	
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells
 	
Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
 	
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
 	
Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi