Book Lists: Dystopian Series

In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't.

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 survive until they turn eighteen.

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.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

The Society has made all her choices for her -- what to read, what to watch, what to believe -- so Cassia is not sure what to think when at her matching ceremony a second face appears for a split second on the screen. Confused and disoriented, Cassia can't decide whether to spend the rest of her life with Xander as Society dictates or acknowledge her love for Ky, which will lead to a path no one else has dared to go.

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.

Evelyn Summers was imprisoned for a crime she can no longer remember--her memory was wiped when she was sent to be "reformed." Now, having been a snitch in prison, she must pass the Freedom Trials, a grueling series of seven mental, virtual, and physical challenges. If she doesn't, the other prisoners will take revenge. Then, a new prisoner arrives who says he has knowledge of the memories that Evelyn has erased, but if she uncovers the truth about the crime that sent her there, she may lose more than her freedom.

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 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.

In a barren future world, the company known as Breathe has saved humanity by manufacturing glass domes and oxygen rich air. Outside the domes there is nothing, not even oxygen. Three teens--Alina, a thief; Quinn, a teen looking for romance with the girl of his dreams, the description of which fits Alina; and Bea, the girl who had hoped Quinn would notice her--take a journey into the Outlands, with enough oxygen for two days. What they find out there is shocking, and they may not want to return to their bubble.

Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

When Madeline Landry realizes that her family's legacy of wealth came at the expense of those less fortunate then her, she is compelled to do anything she can to make it right. But when her gentry-elite friends begin to turn up dead, even she suspects someone from the lower-class is responsible. Madeline must find the killer before she loses the boy she loves or worse, a civil war erupts between the classes.

After the formation of the United Northern Alliance--a merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico into one nation--sixteen-year-old Alenna is sent to an desolate prison island for teenagers believed to be predisposed to violence.

In Seattle in 2044, thirteen-year-old Kobi believes he and his father are the only human survivors of "the Waste," a deadly chemical that killed millions of people and mutated the surviving animals and wildlife into deadly new forms. When Kobi's father disappears, he goes looking for him and discovers other survivors and a conspiracy that is even more frightening than "the Waste.".