The 25 Best Dystopian Novels According to Entertainment Weekly 

There is something about dystopian novels that attracts us to them and want to read all of the best dystopian novels ever written. That is why we will be looking at the 25 best dystopian novels according to Entertainment Weekly!

Honestly, when I saw that this list was made by Entertainment Weekly, I was a bit skeptical. They don’t often cover books but they do interview authors and cover what is trending. This seems like something out of the blue but as a fan of books and dystopian novels, I am excited for it.

The list by Entertainment Weekly is pretty good. Whoever created the list did a great job and is a fan of dystopian novels. There were the obvious picks and then some surprises that even I hadn’t heard of. Either they did a great job researching dystopian novels or actually are a big fan of dystopian novels. You can see the full list below!

The 25 Best Dystopian Novels

• 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (1999)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
• The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard (1962)
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (1985)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1952)
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1962)
• Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishigiro (2005)
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993)
• The Power by Naomi Alderman (2016)
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
• The Stand by Stephen King (1978)
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore (1982–1989)
• The Wall by ​​John Lanchester (2019)
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)

No list about dystopian novels can leave out 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Giver. There are others that should also be on very list but those three are ones that I would automatically look for on any dystopian novel list.

my favorite picks on this list are Station Eleven, The Hunger Games, and Ender’s Game. These are heralded classics that I still find myself thinking about often. The Hunger Games series is still going strong today with prequels still being released in the 2020s.

Conclusion

Entertainment Weekly did a great job with this list and exposed me to dystopian novels I hadn’t seen before. That is what I look for in lists and E. W. did just that. These are the best dystopian novels of all time and only a book or two I would have included if I made the list. What did you think of this list? Let us know in the comments below!

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