More like Stranger

anchored on:science fictionyoung adultpost-apocalyptic

but

Narrow

DivergentSeries
series10 books2011
Dystopia, about identity, set in big city.
Start with The Transfer →
Maze RunnerSeries
series11 books2009
Dystopia.
“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.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Maze Runner →
TripodsSeries
series4 books1967
completed
Alien invasion, about aliens, set in our world.
“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue
Start with When the Tripods Came →
ReckonersSeries
series6 books2013
Superhero.
“One young man orphaned by a High Epic joins a group that is killing Epics.”
from the catalogue
Start with Steelheart →
Shade's Children milieuSeries
series2 books1997
Dystopia, dark in tone.
Start with Shade's Children →
H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse
universe65 books1898
Alien invasion.
“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue
Start with The War of the Worlds →
includes The War of the Worlds