If You Liked "The Hunger Games" Dystopian Fiction for Teens

If You Liked “The Hunger Games”…Dystopian Fiction for Teens
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while
avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious
outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and
dangerous. YA Fic Agu, YA audio Agu

Crewel by Gennifer Albin
Gifted with the unusual ability to embroider the very fabric of life, sixteen-year-old Adelice is
summoned by Manipulation Services to become a Spinster, a move that will separate her from
her beloved family and home forever. YA Fic Alb

Feed by M.T. Anderson
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any trip to the moon—a chance to party during
spring break. But that was before the hacker caused their feeds to malfunction. And it was
before Titus met Violet, who has decided to fight the feed. YA Fic And

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
When brilliant Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is drafted to Battle School to learn to fight against the
aliens threatening humanity, what he thinks are just battle games carry some very real
consequences. Fic pbk Car

Graceling by Kristin Cashore
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces,
Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams
up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. YA Fic Cas

Beta by Rachel Cohn
On a futuristic island paradise where humans are served by enslaved clones, a sixteen-year-old
clone named Elysia seeks her own freedom. YA Fic Coh

Matched by Ally Condie
Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is
being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to
doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves. YA Fic Con

The Maze Runner by James Dashner
When Thomas wakes up with no memory of his past life, he finds himself surrounded by kids
who welcome him to the Glade – a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like
Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every
30 days a new boy is delivered. Then one day, the first girl arrives. And she brings with her a
shocking message. YA Fic Da

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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
While skipping school one day, techno geek Marcus is caught near the site of a terrorist attack
on San Francisco and held by the Department of Homeland Security for six days of intensive
interrogation. After his release, he vows to use his skills to fight back against an increasingly
frightening system of surveillance. YA Fic Doc

The City of Ember by Jeanne Du Prau
The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the
great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient
message, she’s sure it holds a secret that will save the city. Now she and her friend Doon must
decipher the message before the lights go out on Ember forever. j Fic Dup

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Matteo Alacrán is a clone of El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields
lying between the United States and the land that was once called Mexico. As Matt struggles to
understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters who seem to want
him dead. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. YA Far

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of
Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
YA Fic Fis

The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda
Gene has passed as a vampire for years, but now, just as he finds a girl worth fighting for, he is
chosen to participate in the hunt for the last remaining humans among ruthless vampires who
soon suspect his true nature. YA Fic Fuk

Gone by Michael Grant
In the blink of an eye, every adult in the world disappears. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. And
the teens themselves are developing new powers that grow stronger by the day. It’s a terrifying
new world. Sides are being chosen and war is imminent. YA Fic Gra

Always War by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa, her childhood friend Gideon, now a
traumatized military hero, and Dek, a streetwise orphan, enter enemy territory and discover
the shocking truth about a war that began more than seventy-five years earlier. j Fic Had

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s lived
his entire life in hiding. Then, one day Luke meets another shadow child like himself. Jen is
willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows – does Luke dare to become involved in
her dangerous plan? j Fic Had

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Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines
Lyn is a neo-gladiator’s daughter, through and through. Her mother has made a career out of
marrying into the high-profile world of televised blood sport, and the rules of the Gladiator
Sports Association are second nature to their family. The rules help the family survive, but
rules—and the GSA—can also turn against you. When a gifted young fighter kills Lyn’s seventh
father, he also captures Lyn’s dowry bracelet, which means she must marry him… YA Fic Hai

Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch
Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, fifteen-year-old Stephen, his
father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies
and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is
turned upside down. YA Fic Hir

Epic by Conor Kostick
On New Earth, society is governed by a computer game, Epic. If you win, you have the chance
to fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life is forfeit. When Erik defies the rules of Epic, he and
his friends must face the Committee. If they win, they have the key to destroying the
Committee. But if they lose… YA Fic Kos

Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
Six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six
little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While
outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a
chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world--as they know it--apart. YA Fic Lay

Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a
drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of
rationing as her family spirals out of control. YA Fic Llo

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Jonas’s world is perfect. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is
assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive training
from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now,
it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back. YA Fic Low

Legend by Marie Lu
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a
famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they
have a common enemy. YA Fic Lu

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted
mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets

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about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
YA Fic Mey

America Pacifica by Anna North
Eighteen-year-old Darcy lives on the island of America Pacifica--one of the last places on earth
that is still habitable, after North America has succumbed to a second ice age. Education, food,
and basic means of survival are the province of a chosen few, while the majority of the island
residents must struggle to stay alive. Fic Nor

Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of
love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth
birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love. YA Fic Oli

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Who is Jenna Fox? She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering
from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that?
Jenna doesn’t remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? YA Fic Pea

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
After an asteroid knocks the moon closer to earth, worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts,
earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun. In her journal, Miranda
records the events of each desperate day, while she and her family struggle to hold on to their
most priceless resource—hope. YA Fic Pfe

Nation by Terry Pratchett
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and
Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding
their community and all the things that are important in their lives. YA Fic Pra

Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed. She expects to
wake up on a new planet, 300 years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed’s scheduled
landing, Amy’s cryo chamber is unplugged, and she is nearly killed. Now, Amy is caught inside
an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed’s passengers have forfeited all
control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader, and Elder, his rebellious and brilliant
teenage heir. Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she? All she knows is that she
must race to unlock Godspeed’s hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again.
YA Fic Rev

Divergent by Veronica Roth
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined
factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she

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discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she
lives in is not perfect after all. YA Fic Rot

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially
what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated,
aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead. YA Fic Rya

Unwind by Neal Shusterman
In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight to
survive. If they make it to their 18th birthday, they can’t be harmed—but when every piece of
them is wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away. YA Fic Shu

Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future
society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff
penalties, but when Chase, the only boy she has ever loved, arrests her rebellious mother,
Ember must take action. YA Fic Sim

Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari
In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics, sixteen-year-
old Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band,
but soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and infect people with
plague. YA Fic Tre

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
In Tally’s world, your 16th birthday brings an operation that turns you into a pretty and
catapults you into a paradise where your only job is to have a great time. But Tally’s friend Shay
isn’t sure she wants to be pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns there’s a darker side to the
pretty world. Then the authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend
and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. YA Fic Wes

Classics:

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic
Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now
pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes
her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure
means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived
with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she
navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking
the rules. Fic Atw

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses
in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he
enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure
of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned
anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not
afraid... Fic Bra, AC Bra

Neuromancer by William Gibson
Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his
consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling
encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong
people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by
micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted
death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--
and a cure--for a price... Fic Gib

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics,
programming and media--has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a
storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns
in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation,
we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Fic Hux

1984 by George Orwell
A single man's determined battle against Big Brother and the forces of totalitarianism. Fic Orw

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in
the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding
of the all-powerful Guardians. YA LOW

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