Do Dystopes Make You Mope?

Dystopian novels tend to make you mope. That is their intent. They are not your happy ever after books.
According to dictionary.com, dystopia is defined as "a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding". I like the World English Dictionary's definition, "an imaginary place where everything is bad as it can be".

Dystopian novels seem to be the latest craze to write about following the Hunger Games popularity. Other current dystopian novels to read are Matched by Allie Condie, The Thirteenth Plague by Jeff Hirsch, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore, The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan, Delirium by Lauren Oliver, Gone series by Michael Grant and The Compound by S.E. Bodeen

The following dystopian novels have recently been published: Divergent by Veronica Roth, Enclave by Ann Aguirre, Legend by Marie Lu, Shipbreaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, Glow by Kathleen Ryan, Salt series by Maurice Gee, and Tankborn by Karen Sandler.

Here are some other dystopian novels that have alredy made their mark: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, Feed by M.T. Anderson, The Shadow Children by Margaret Haddix, The Atherton Series by Patrick Carman, The Ember Series by Jeanne Duprau, The Giver series by Lois Lowry, The Moon Crash trilogy by Susan Beth Pfeffer, The Uglies series by Scott Westerfield and Unwind by Neil Shusterman.

If you prefer classics, try these dystopian novels: Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1984 by George Orwell,  Brave New World  by Aldous Huxley, and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.