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If You Like The Hunger Games
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If you crave more gripping dystopian adventures, try these stories of young people fighting for survival - for adults and teens.
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Brave New Love : 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire This exciting collection of stories explores the struggles, both emotional and physical, of teenagers trying to survive as society falls apart or as they help build a new world. Compelling, emotionally charged stories of young lives lived in desperate circumstances by: John Shirley, Elizabeth Bear, Kiera Cass, Nisi Shawl, Maria V. Snyder, Carrie Vaughn, Steve Berman, Amanda Downum, Diana Peterfreund, and more. 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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Aguirre, Ann Enclave In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid's Tale Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules. 2006 Adult Fiction Book |
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Augarde, Steve X-Isle Baz and Ray, survivors of an apocalyptic flood, win places on X-Isle, an island where life is rumored to be better than on the devastated mainland, but they find the island to be a violent place ruled by religious fanatic Preacher John, and they decide they must come up with a weapon to protect themselves from impending danger. 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Baxter, Stephen Flood Four hostages are finally released, but they face a world suddenly inundated as vast amounts of water are released from the earth's mantle. As the world's cities and countries disappear under the rising seas, humanity faces unimaginable global disaster. 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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Buckley, Carla The Things That Keep Us Here When a deadly pandemic strikes, Ann Brooks's town is locked down and, as time passes, she is forced to confront her failing marriage and fight for survival as resources dwindle and neighbor turns against neighbor. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive. 2002 Adult Fiction Book |
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Condie, Allyson Braithwaite Matched 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? 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Dashner, James The Maze Runner 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. 2009 Teen Fiction Book |
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DeStefano, Lauren Wither After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Dunn, Mark Ella Minnow Pea : a Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable A linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers playfully recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the government progressively bans letters from the alphabet 2001 Adult Fiction Book |
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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. 2002 Teen Fiction Book |
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Fisher, Catherine Incarceron 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. 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Forstchen, William R. One Second After One man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages. 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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Grant, Michael Gone In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not. 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Haines, Lise Girl in the Arena : a Novel Containing Intense Prolonged Sequences of Disaster and Peril In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena. 2009 Teen Fiction Book |
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Hirsch, Jeff The Eleventh Plague Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, fifteen-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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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James, P. D. The Children of Men In 2021, with the human race becoming extinct because of the infertility of all males, Oxford historian Theodore Faron is drawn into the schemes of an unlikely group of revolutionaries out to save society. 1993 Adult Fiction Book |
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Kasischke, Laura In a Perfect World : a Novel "The Pilot's Wife" meets "The Road" in critically-acclaimed poet Kasischke's new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices people make when they feel they have no choices left. 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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King, Stephen The Long Walk In the near future, a young boy has been one of 100 selected to take the Long Walk--a deadly contest of endurance and determination, in which each step can literally be your last. Follow the contestants' tortured footsteps as they struggle with each other, and themselves, to survive the race... this harrowing tale was originally published under the Richard Bachman pseudonym. 1999 Adult Fiction Book |
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