Books like Dust
In the final chapter of the Silo trilogy, the survivors of Wool and Shift make their last stand against the system that imprisoned them underground.
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The Hunger Games
A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death in a televised arena to save her sister, and the games become a catalyst for revolution.
The Maze Runner
Thomas wakes in a lift with no memory except his name and arrives in the Glade, a clearing walled in by an enormous maze whose walls move every night, where a community of boys has been looking for a way out for two years.
The City of Ember
In the underground city of Ember, whose lights are failing and whose builders left no way out that anyone remembers, twelve-year-olds Lina and Doon find a damaged document that may be instructions for escape.
Uglies
In a future city where everyone has an operation at sixteen that makes them beautiful, Tally Youngblood can hardly wait for hers, until her friend Shay runs away and Tally is given a choice: find her and betray her, or never turn pretty at all.
The Children of Men
In a near-future England where humanity has become infertile, a disillusioned historian is drawn into a resistance movement against a totalitarian government.
The Day of the Triffids
Bill Masen wakes in a London hospital with his eyes bandaged to find that almost everyone who watched the previous night's green meteor shower has gone blind, and that the triffids, tall walking plants with poisonous stings, are loose.
Ship Breaker
Nailer, a teenager on the drowned Gulf Coast, strips copper wiring from wrecked oil tankers for a scavenging crew. After a hurricane he finds a beached clipper ship with a rich girl alive in the wreckage, and has to decide whether to strip the ship and leave her or help her.
The 5th Wave
After four waves of alien attack have killed most of humanity, sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan, alone in the woods with a rifle and trusting no one, sets out to keep her promise to find her little brother.
Legend
In a future Los Angeles ruled by the Republic, fifteen-year-old prodigy June Iparis is sent to hunt down Day, the country's most wanted criminal, whom she believes killed her brother.
Unwind
After a war fought over abortion, the law lets parents have their children unwound between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, their bodies taken apart for transplants, and three teenagers marked for it, Connor, Risa and Lev, go on the run.
The Marrow Thieves
In a future North America ravaged by climate change, where people have lost the ability to dream, Indigenous people are hunted for their bone marrow, and Frenchie, a Métis boy, flees north with others.
Oryx and Crake
In a ruined world, Snowman, who may be the last human, remembers his friend Crake, a brilliant geneticist who built a new species, and the woman they both loved, in the first book of the MaddAddam trilogy.