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Z for ZachariahNovel
Robert C. O'Brienstandalone novel1975
About loneliness, set in our world and countryside & village.
“Sixteen-year-old Ann Burden, on an Amish family farm in an isolated valley, believes she is the only survivor of nuclear war and nerve gas.”
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The 5th WaveSeries
series4 books2013
Alien invasion, dark in tone, about aliens.
“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
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Shade's Children milieuSeries
series2 books1997
Dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution.
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The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
Dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution and totalitarianism, set in far future.
“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
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includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels
Ship BreakerSeries
series3 books2010
Dark in tone.
“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
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Maze RunnerSeries
series11 books2009
Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about survival, set in near future.
“A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”
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Start with The Maze Runner →