16 Great Dystopian Books from the Past 25 Years

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Greg Hickey is the author of dystopian fiction novel Our Dried Voices — which was nominated for the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year — and is also the curator of The 110 Best Dystopian Novels. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Lindsay. Follow Greg Hickey on BookBub here.

The dystopian genre has come a long way in the past century, moving from totalitarian nightmares and atomic catastrophes to issues like climate change, race, artificial intelligence, and the global food supply. Here are some of the best dystopian books — standouts published in the last 25 years ranging from burgeoning classics to wildly popular commercial successes to hidden gems that deserve to be discovered by science fiction and dystopian readers.