Where readers find their next favorite dystopian reads, presented by author KN Tristan
I read 105 books in 2025 and 40 of them were dystopian. I was on a bit of a tear. (In case you’re curious, the others were a mix of nonfiction about Antarctica, horror reads for a book club, and a couple Spanish language board books because that’s where I’m at learning-wise… mi conejillo de […]
Dystopian fiction has been around for ages—1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World—those are the classics. Around 2012, everything changed. The Hunger Games exploded and suddenly YA dystopian books were the genre. You couldn’t swing a copy of Divergent without hitting a new series about teens rebelling against messed-up, oppressive governments.
