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YA Dystopian Books
16 items
By
Rhyan Smith
Have you never left your dystopian era? Me either… here are some recs to fuel your addiction
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The holy grail of all YA dystopia
The Hunger Games
Best apocalyptic staple series where they are stuck in a moving maze
Maze Runner
A world divided into factions but a girl doesn't fit into any
Divergent Book Series | Barnes & Noble®
Follows the most wanted criminal and a child prodigy of a dystopian state
Legend
A Striker loses her partner and is punished by partnering with a weapon of war to fight for freedom
Skyhunter
A plague gives youth powers- but Adelina has the strongest power of all
The Young Elites
A world that has surpassed death needs manufactured death by Scythes
Arc of a Scythe book series
It is common to 'unwind' teenagers (harvest them for body parts) so the protagonists must avoid this fate
Unwind Dystology - By Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster
A futuristic cyborg retelling of Cinderella
Cinder
Jonas lives in a world without color and is selected to harbor all of the community's memories by himself
The Giver
A prince selects 35 girls of different castes (rankings) to decide who will be queen
The Selection Series
The Society controls every aspect of citizen's lives but there is an error in the system
Matched Series - Penguin Random House
Coming of age lets you undergo becoming a ‘Pretty’ but there is a dark side to conforming
Uglies
Families are only allowed to have 2 kids, but the protagonist is a third and must hide
Among the Hidden
Underground city but the generator begins to fail and they have to find a way out
The City of Ember Deluxe Edition: The First Book of Ember
Deadly trials but in an academic environment
The Testing Trilogy - Joelle Charbonneau
