Books like 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.
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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.
Scythe
In a future where disease, war and old age have been conquered, only scythes may end lives, to keep the population in check, and two teenagers, Citra and Rowan, are chosen as apprentices to a scythe, a role neither of them wants.
The Darkest Minds
After a disease kills most of America's children and leaves the survivors with dangerous powers, sixteen-year-old Ruby, who has spent six years in a brutal government camp hiding how powerful she is, escapes and joins a group of kids on the run.
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 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.
Rite of Passage
A girl on a vast generation ship must pass a deadly coming-of-age trial: survive alone on an alien planet for thirty days.
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.
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.
Parable of the Sower
As civilisation collapses from climate change and inequality, a young woman with a dangerous gift of empathy leads survivors north towards a new beginning.
The New Wilderness
A mother and her sickly daughter join twenty volunteers exiled from a dying city into the last protected American wilderness, where the rules are the weather and each other.
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.
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.