World Gone Wrong, or, If You Liked The Hunger Games
Dystopian Novels



Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games (Hunger Games trilogy, #1)
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss' skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. (YA Fic SF  Collins)



Adlington, L.J. The Diary of Pelly D
When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs. (YA Fic SF  Adlington)

Aguirre, Ann. Enclave
In a post-apocalyptic future, 15-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 SF  Aguirre)

Anderson, M.T. Feed
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. (YA Fic SF  Anderson)

Asada, Hiroyuki. Letter Bee (Tegami bachi, #1)
In the dimly illuminated world of Amberground, where only the postal workers known as Letter Bees connect people who are separated, Lag Seeing becomes a Letter Bee like Gauche Suede, the one who transported him when he was a boy. (YA 741.5  Asada)

Bick, Ilsa J. Ashes
Alex, a resourceful 17-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry 8-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses. (YA Fic M  Bick)

Bloor, Edward. Taken
In 2036 kidnapping rich children has become an industry, but when 13-year-old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom, she soon discovers that this particular kidnapping is not what it seems. (YA Fic  Bloor)

Bodeen, S.A. The Compound
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them. (D-11946 YA Book on Disc  Bodeen)

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451
A book burning official in a future fascist state finds out that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew, and he decides to pursue reading, until he is betrayed. (YA Fic SF -- Classics rack  Bradbury)

Cass, Kiera. The Selection
16-year-old 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--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her. (YA Fic SF  Cass)

Colfer, Eoin. The Supernaturalist
In futuristic Satellite City, 14-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans. (Juv Fic SF  Colfer)

Condie, Allyson Braithwaite. Matched (Matched trilogy, #1)
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well? (YA Fic SF  Condie)

Crewe, Megan. The Way We Fall
16-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community. (YA Fic  Crewe)

Crockett, S.D. After the Snow
15-year-old Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows created a new ice age, searches for his family, who mysteriously disappeared from their frozen mountain home, and encounters outlaws, halfmen, and an abandoned girl along the way. (YA Fic SF  Crockett)

Dashner, James. The Maze Runner (Maze runner trilogy, #1)
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 SF  Dashner)

Derting, Kimberly. The Pledge
In a dystopian kingdom where the classes are separated by the languages they speak, Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has a secret gift that is revealed when she meets a mysterious young man named Max. (YA Fic SF  Derting)

DeStefano, Lauren. Wither (Chemical Garden, #1)
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age 25 and women dying at age 20, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world. (YA Fic SF  DeStefano)

DeVita, James. The Silenced
Consigned to a prison-like Youth Training Facility because of her parents' political activities, Marena organizes a resistance movement to combat the restrictive policies of the ruling Zero Tolerance party. (YA Fic SF  DeVita)

Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. (YA Fic SF  Doctorow)

Dunkle, Clare B. The Sky Inside
Martin lives in a domed suburb. Every year a new generation of children arrives on a conveyer belt to meet their parents. But when a man arrives to take a group of children away including Martin's sister Cassie, he decides to find out what is beyond the dome and why his sister was taken away. (YA Fic SF  Dunkle)

DuPrau, Jeanne. The City of Ember (Ember series, #1)
In the year 241, 12-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. (Juv Fic SF  DuPrau)

Emerson, Kevin. The Lost Code (Atlanteans, #1)
Owen Parker learns that he is a descendant of a highly advanced ancient race that almost destroyed the Earth with their advanced technologies, and he is determined to unlock the code in his genes to rediscover the forgotten knowledge of his ancestry and save the world, which is in serious danger. (YA Fic SF  Emerson)

Falkner, Brian. Brain Jack
In a near-future New York City, 14-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world. (YA Fic SF  Falkner)

Farmer, Nancy. The House of the Scorpion
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patro?n, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. (YA Fic SF  Farmer)

Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron  (Incarceron, #1)
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 SF  Fisher)

Fukui, Isamu. Truancy
In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control through education, 15-year-old Tack is torn between a growing sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a death caused by a Truant. (YA Fic SF  Fukui)

Goodman, Allegra. The Other Side of the Island
Born in the eighteenth year of Enclosure, 10-year-old Honor lives in a highly regulated colony with her defiant parents, but when they have an illegal second child and are taken away, it is up to Honor and her friend Helix, another "unpredictable," to uncover a terrible secret about their island and the corporation that runs everything. (YA Fic SF  Goodman)

Grant, Michael. Gone (Gone series, #1)
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 SF  Grant)

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)
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? (Juv Fic SF  Haddix)

Hall, Teri. The Line
Rachel thinks that she and her mother are safe working for Ms. Moore at her estate close to The Line, an invisible border of the Unified States, but when Rachel has an opportunity to Cross into the forbidden zone, she is both frightened and intrigued. (YA Fic SF  Hall)

Hautman, Pete. Rash
In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," 16-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork. (YA Fic SF  Hautman)

Hirsch, Jeff. The Eleventh Plague
Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, 15-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 SF  Hirsch)

Hughes, Monica. The Game
Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game. The Game is a virtual reality experience where they are challenged to survive. But as they spend more time in The Game, the line between reality and fantasy starts to blur. What started as a simple exercise quickly becomes a test of endurance, trust, and their will to live. Previously published as: Invitation to the Game. (YA Fic SF  Hughes)

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped. (YA Fic -- Classics rack  Huxley)

Knutsson, Catherine. Shadows Cast By Stars
To escape a government that needs antigens in aboriginal blood to stop a plague, 16-year-old Cassandra and her family flee to the Island, where she not only gets help in communicating with the spirit world, she learns she has been chosen to be their voice and instrument. (YA Fic SF  Knutsson)

Kostick, Conor. Epic (Epic, #1)
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 SF  Kostick)

Lloyd, Staci. Carbon Diaries 2015
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 SF  Lloyd)

Lowry, Lois. The Giver
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. (Juv Fic SF  Lowry)

Lu, Marie. Legend
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, 15-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 SF  Lu)

Malley, Gemma. The Declaration (Declaration trilogy, #1)
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her. (YA Fic SF  Malley)

Marsden, John. Tomorrow, When the War Began. (Tomorrow series, #1)
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive. (YA Fic  Marsden)

Meyer, Marissa. Cinder (The Lunar chronicles, #1)
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 about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story. (YA Fic SF  Meyer)

Mourlevat, Jean-Claude. Winter's End
Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents 15 years earlier. (YA Fic SF  Mourlevat)

Mullin, Mike. Ashfall (Ashfall series, #1)
After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, 15-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished. (YA Fic  Mullin)

Nelson, O. T. The Girl Who Owned a City
When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, 10-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life. (Juv Fic SF  Nelson)

Ness, Patrick. The Knife of Never Letting Go  (Chaos Walking, #1)
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World. (YA Fic SF  Ness)

North, Pearl. Libyrinth (Libyrinth series, #1)
In a distant future where Libyrarians preserve and protect the ancient books that are housed in the fortress-like Libyrinth, Haly is imprisoned by Eradicants, who believe that the written word is evil, and she must try to mend the rift between the two groups before their war for knowledge destroys them all. (YA Fic SF  North)

O'Brien, Caragh. Birthmarked (Birthmarked trilogy, #1)
In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, 16-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city. (YA Fic SF  O'Brien)

O'Brien, Robert.  Z for Zachariah
Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a 16-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must escape. (Juv Fic SF  O'Brien)

Oliver, Lauren. Delirium  (Delirium series, #1)
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 95 days before her 18th birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love. (YA Fic SF  Oliver)

Orwell, George. 1984
Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action. (YA Fic SF  Orwell)

Patrick, Cat. Forgotten
16-year-old London Lane forgets everything each night and must use notes to struggle through the day, even to recall her wonderful boyfriend, but she "remembers" future events and as her "flashforwards" become more disturbing she realizes she must learn more about the past lest it destroy her future. (YA Fic SF  Patrick)

Patterson, James. Witch and Wizard  (Witch & Wizard novels, #1)
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books. (YA Fic SF  Patterson)

Pearson, Mary E. The Adoration of Jenna Fox  (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
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 SF  Pearson)

Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Life As We Knew It  (Last Survivors, #1)
Through journal entries 16-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. (YA Fic)

Price, Lissa. Starters  (Starters, #1)
To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, 16-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it. (YA Fic SF  Price)

Reeve, Philip. Fever Crumb (Fever Crumb series, #1)
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought. At age 14, she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present. (Juv Fic SF  Reeve) Prequel series to Hungry City Chronicles.

Reeve, Philip. Mortal Engines  (The Hungry Cities Chronicles, #1)
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a 15-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another. (Juv Fic SF  Reeve)

Revis, Beth. Across the Universe  (Across the Universe trilogy, #1)
Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her. (YA Fic SF  Revis)

Roberts, Jeyn.  Dark Inside
After tremendous earthquakes destroy the Earth's major cities, an ancient evil emerges, turning ordinary people into hunters, killers, and insane monsters but a small group of teens comes together in a fight for survival and safety. (YA Fic SF  Roberts)

Rosoff, Meg.  How I Live Now
To get away from her pregnant step-mother in New York City, 15-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. (YA Fic  Rosoff)

Rossi, Veronica. Under the Never Sky
When Aria, a sheltered and fragile Dweller, is exiled from the protected city, she must face a land filled with cannibals and energy storms. Her only hope for staying alive is Outsider Perry, a savage hunter. (YA Fic SF  Rossi)

Roth, Veronica. Divergent (Insurgent trilogy, #1)
In a future Chicago, 16-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 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. Followed by: Insurgent  (YA Fic SF  Roth)

Sandler, Karen. Tankborn
Kayla and Mishalla, two genetically engineered non-human slaves (GENs), fall in love with higher-status boys, discover deep secrets about the creation of GENs, and find out what it means to be human. (YA Fic SF  Sandler)

Shusterman, Neal. Unwind
In a future world where those between the ages of 13 and 18 can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives. (YA Fic SF  Shusterman)

Smith, Alexander. Lockdown (Escape from Furnace, #1)
When 14-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible. (YA Fic SF  Smith)

Snyder, Maria V. Inside Out
Trella is a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. She's got one friend, does her job and tries to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if she occasionally uses the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is her own…until she accidentally starts a rebellion and becomes the go-to girl to lead a revolution.  (YA Fic SF  Snyder)

Takami, Koushun. Battle Royale
In an alternative future Japan, a group of 9th-grade students are confined to a small isolated island where they must fight each other for three days until only one survivor remains, as part of the ultimate in reality television. (YA Fic SF  Takami)

Thomas, Lex. The Loners (Quarantine series, #1)
When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine. (YA Fic SF  Thomas)

Treggiari, Jo. Ashes, Ashes
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 SF  Treggiari)

Wells, Robison. Variant  (Varient series, #1)
After years in foster homes, 17-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems. (YA Fic SF  Wells)

Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies (Uglies series, #1)
In a world in which everyone is transformed into a stunning beauty at age 16, Tally has doubts. (YA Fic SF  Westerfeld)

Young, Moira. Blood Red Road  (Dustlands trilogy, #1)
In a distant future, 18-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and 9-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape. (YA Fic SF  Young)

 

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8/27/12
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