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universe5 books2008

Dystopia, tense in tone, set in far future and north america.

“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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Start with The Hunger Games →

includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels

TripodsSeries

series4 books1967

completed

About aliens and rebellion and revolution, set in our world and near future.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

Maze RunnerSeries

series11 books2009

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 →

The 5th WaveSeries

series4 books2013

Alien invasion, tense in tone, about aliens, set in north america.

“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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Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Steampunk, adventurous in tone, about survival, set in far future.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
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Start with Mortal Engines →

includes Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines, Mortal Engines Prequels, Anna Fang

Z for ZachariahNovel

Robert C. O'Brienstandalone novel1975

About survival and coming of age, set in our world and near future.

“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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