Books like 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.
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Battle Royale
In the Republic of Greater East Asia, a junior high class on a school trip is gassed and wakes on an island, told by the government that only one of the forty-two students will be allowed to leave alive.
The Selection
America Singer, a musician from a lower caste in the future kingdom of Illéa, is chosen as one of thirty-five girls competing to marry Prince Maxon, though she is still in love with a boy from home.
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.
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.
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.
Red Rising
On a colonised Mars, a miner discovers the brutal caste system's darkest secret and is recruited for a revolution from the inside.
Powerless
In a kingdom where the gifted Elites rule and the powerless Ordinaries are hunted, a thief named Paedyn Gray hides that she has no power at all, until she saves a prince and is thrown into the deadly Purging Trials.
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.
Red Queen
In a kingdom where silver-blooded nobles with powers rule red-blooded commoners, Mare Barrow, a Red thief, shows in front of the whole court that she has a power of her own, and the king hides her in plain sight as a lost Silver noblewoman.
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.
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.
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.