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Dystopia Young Adult Booklist

After

Edited by Ellen Datlow

YA AFTER Nineteen tales explore the lives of teens raised after a catastrophe, either in the first few years after the change or in

the distant future.

Enclave

By Ann Aguirre

YA AGUIRRE Deuce, an enclave-dweller, earns the rank of Huntress, and she is paired with a mysterious outsider named Fade...and the two of them discover a secret that could destroy their

precarious society.

Flawed

By Cecelia Ahern

YA AHERN In a future society where 'flawed' people who have committed crimes are branded with an F, a young girl takes a

stand.

Munmun

By Jesse Andrews

YA ANDREWS In a society where a person's size is directly proportional to his or her wealth, littlepoor Warner, thirteen, and Prayer, fifteen, struggle to improve their

lot in a world built against them.

After the End

By Amy Plum

YA PLUM Searching for fellow survivors of World War III, a girl from a remote Alaskan village discovers that the war never actually happened and that she must now adapt to a strange

and dangerous modern world.

Want

By Cindy Pon

YA PON Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight

the corruption and save his city.

Divergent

By Veronica Roth

YA ROTH In a future Chicago, Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of

her life.

This Savage Song

By Victoria Schwab

YA SCHWAB As the heirs to opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker and Augustus Flynn should never have met. A Romeo and Juliet-esque fantasy about the difference between good and evil and the blurry gray area in

between.

Firstlife

By Gena Showalter

YA SHOWALTER Real life begins after death. As Tenley nears her time of death two deadly rivals are willing to do anything to lure her to their side, and Ten finds herself on the run, caught in a tug-of-war

for the right to her soul.

Unwind

By Neal Shusterman

YA SHUSTERMAN In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to

uphold their beliefs.

The Glass Arrow

By Kristen Simmons

YA SIMMONS In a world where females are property, Aya is stolen from her free life in the mountains to be turned over for auction, so she plans an escape back to her family

in the wilderness.

Rabbit & Robot

By Andrew Smith

YA SMITH Stranded aboard the lunar cruise ship Tennessee, Cager Messer and his best friend, Billy are surrounded by insane robots while watching thirty simultaneous wars

turn Earth into a toxic wasteland.

Partials

By Dan Wells

YA WELLS In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of

Kira Walker, a medic in training.

Red Queen

By Victoria Aveyard

YA AVEYARD When her latent supernatural powers manifest in front of a noble court, Mare, a thief in a world divided between commoners and superhumans, is forced to assume the role of

lost princess.

Tool of War

By Paolo Bacigalupi

YA BACIGALUPI A bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the corporation that created him and seeks revenge

against his old masters.

Replica

By Jenna Black

YA BLACK Nadia lives a privileged life in the Corporate States, but when her betrothed is killed and then wakes up in the replication tanks, the pair sets out to find a

killer.

Ink and Bone

By Rachel Caine

YA CAINE In a world where the Great Library of Alexandria governs the flow of information to the people, Jess discovers that those who control the Library believe that knowledge is more valuable than

human life.

Pawn

By Aimee Carter

YA CARTER Kitty Doe joins the most powerful family in the country, a choice that requires her to assume the identity of the Prime Minister's niece and stop a rebellion that

ended her predecessor's life.

The Selection

By Kiera Cass

YA CASS America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in

the Selection.

The Belles

By Dhonielle Clayton

YA CLAYTON Born one of the revered Belles in the opulent world of Orleans, where people are naturally born gray and seek the talented Belles to transform themselves with beauty, Camellia dreams of being

declared the queen's favorite.

The Hunger Games

By Suzanne Collins

YA COLLINS Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the

Hunger Games.

Diverse Energies

Edited By Tobias S. Buckell

YA DIVERSE In this collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the diverse stars are students, street kids, "good girls," kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments,

their governments.

Little Brother

By Cory Doctorow

YA DOCTOROW America has become a police state where everyone is suspect. For Marcus, the only option left is to take down the power-crazed Department of Homeland Security with an underground

online revolution.

Angelfall

By Susan Ee

YA EE While trying to escape their apartment after the angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world, Penryn meets Raffe, an angel whose wings have been cut off by the angels who

kidnapped Penryn's sister.

The Rains

By Gregg Hurwitz

YA HURWITZ When the adults in Creek's Cause turn into ferocious, inhuman beings, Chance Rain and his older brother, Patrick, take refuge with other kids at the school, where they work to

find the source of the plague.

The Dark Intercept

By Julia Keller

YA KELLER New world founding father's daughter, Violet, risks her utopian existence to protect a friend from a violent altercation linked to a

shattering reality.

Rebel Seoul

By Axie Oh

YA OH Pacific Rim meets Korean action dramas in this mind-blowing sci-fi novel set in New

Seoul in the year 2199.

War Girls

By Tochi Onyebuchi

YA ONYEBUCHI In 2172, when much of the world is unlivable, sisters Onyii and Ify dream of escaping war-torn Nigeria and finding a better future together but are,

instead, torn apart.