Books like 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.
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I Am Number Four
John Smith, a teenager from the destroyed planet Lorien, hides on Earth with his guardian, moving whenever danger comes, and in Paradise, Ohio, his powers begin to appear just as the Mogadorians who killed three of his kind close in.
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 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.
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.
Mortal Engines
Long after the Sixty Minute War, London is a vast city on wheels that hunts smaller towns, and Tom Natsworthy, an apprentice historian, is thrown off it after he saves his hero from a scarred girl who tries to kill him.
Trail of Lightning
After rising waters drowned much of the world, the Navajo Nation, Dinétah, has walled itself in and its gods and monsters walk again, and Maggie Hoskie, a monster hunter, is hired to find a missing girl.
The Host
Earth has been taken over by Souls, gentle parasites who live in human bodies, but when one called Wanderer is placed in Melanie Stryder, a captured rebel, Melanie refuses to fade and fills Wanderer's mind with the man she loves.
Rot & Ruin
Benny Imura, fifteen, needs a job in his fenced town in a zombie-ridden California, and reluctantly becomes an apprentice to his older brother Tom, a zombie hunter.
Divergent
In a future Chicago divided into five factions, each devoted to a single virtue, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose where she belongs, and the test meant to guide her shows that she fits no single faction, a secret that could get her killed.
Wool
Thousands of people live in a vast underground silo, and the worst crime is asking to go outside, until Juliette, a mechanic from the deep levels, is made sheriff and starts asking why.
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.
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.