Lists and Suggestions for Teens

List: Dystopian Fiction

Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer), author.

In a terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, s...

Ahern, Cecelia, 1981- author.

Celestine has always known about the Flawed, second-class citizens who are branded as punishment for...

Bracken, Alexandra.

Sixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who a...

Cass, Kiera, author.

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape a rigid ...

Kristoff, Jay, author.

When Eve learns she can destroy machines with her mind, she becomes a target for a group of puritani...

Mejia, Tehlor Kay, author.

A society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after...

Rothenberg, Jess, author.

Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a ch...

Dashner, James, 1972-

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work wi...

Mafi, Tahereh, author.

Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition tha...

Shusterman, Neal.

In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gl...

Yancey, Richard.

Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy wit...

Charbonneau, Joelle.

Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the Universit...

Westerfeld, Scott.

Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be transformed into beauties whose only job is...

Meyer, Marissa, author.

In a ruined world where humans with extraordinary abilities have become the world's champions o...

Lu, Marie, 1984-

In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day, a fam...

Bacigalupi, Paolo, author.

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a livi...