Books like 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.
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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dreamsnake
A healer with bioengineered snakes traverses a post-apocalyptic landscape, seeking to help a radiation-damaged world recover.
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.
Myst: The Book of Atrus
Raised by his grandmother in a desert fissure, young Atrus is claimed by his father Gehn, who takes him underground to the ruined city of D'ni to learn the art of writing books that open onto other worlds.
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.
The Handmaid's Tale
In a theocratic dystopia, a woman is valued only for her fertility, forced to bear children for the ruling class.