Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Novels have the capacity to captivate our imaginations while also engaging in human themes and reflecting the modern world.

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale, first published in 1985, is currently available at no cost to Kindle Unlimited ...

Goodreads readers have crowned this bestselling dystopian novel the “best book ever,” more than 15 years after it first ...

Novels tend to portray dystopia as a messy, noisy business. Climate change brings devastating fires and floods; political extremism breeds abuse and bloodshed; viruses fill graveyards following quick, ...

The dystopian craze of the 2010s prompted a wave of on-screen adaptations and new book releases. Suddenly, all across the page and silver screen, teenagers were fighting for their lives in apocalyptic ...

The novel, “Prophet Song,” is a story mirroring today's headlines, with a country dissolving into political chaos, descending into violence, and one woman watching her family fall apart. Jeffrey Brown ...

Whitney French tried — repeatedly — to write her new book as a conventional novel. It didn’t work.

(JTA) — At some point during my reading of Zachary Solomon’s debut novel, “A Brutal Design,” I needed to look up Duma, the utopian city-state where the novel is set, and see if it is a real place. It ...

Fans may know Omar Epps best as an actor on shows such as House and This Is Us — but he's also the co-author of a two-part dystopian YA series known as Nubia. The second book in the series, Nubia: The ...

Books have the power to pull us in, gather us up, toss us about and leave us changed. Sometimes the changes are uplifting and inspiring in nature. Other times, they are disconcerting, challenging the ...

I have a confession to make: I have never read George Orwell’s “1984”, nor Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” Yet I still consider myself an avid fan of the dystopia genre. Call me fake all you want; I ...