Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Dystopian Fiction
Internment
Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer), author.
In a terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, s... More
Flawed
Ahern, Cecelia, 1981- author.
Celestine has always known about the Flawed, second-class citizens who are branded as punishment for... More
The Darkest Minds
Bracken, Alexandra.
Sixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who a... More
The Selection
Cass, Kiera, author.
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape a rigid ... More
Life l1k3
Kristoff, Jay, author.
When Eve learns she can destroy machines with her mind, she becomes a target for a group of puritani... More
We Set the Dark on Fire
Mejia, Tehlor Kay, author.
A society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after... More
The Kingdom
Rothenberg, Jess, author.
Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a ch... More
The Maze Runner
Dashner, James, 1972-
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work wi... More
Shatter Me
Mafi, Tahereh, author.
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition tha... More
Scythe
Shusterman, Neal.
In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gl... More
The 5th Wave
Yancey, Richard.
Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy wit... More
The Testing
Charbonneau, Joelle.
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the Universit... More
Uglies
Westerfeld, Scott.
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be transformed into beauties whose only job is... More
Renegades
Meyer, Marissa, author.
In a ruined world where humans with extraordinary abilities have become the world's champions o... More
Legend
Lu, Marie, 1984-
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day, a fam... More
Ship Breaker
Bacigalupi, Paolo, author.
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a livi... More