The most dystopian thing about The Handmaid's Tale was that I was forced to read it in high school and the most interesting thing about it is that the room described in the opening pages is the gymnasium in Leaside High School.

As this article, she's not far wrong.  An excellent writer who delved heavily into dystopian themes was J.G. Ballard and in his last book he noted that the only goal people seemed to have in the 21st century was to find a way to become  victim.