If You Like: Hunger Games -- Teen Zone
Book Series from the Teen Zone
First book in each series unless otherwise noted.
Pure by
In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm.
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9781455503063Publication Date: 2012
Matched by
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well? (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series CONISBN: 9780525423645Publication Date: 2010
The Maze Runner by
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series DASISBN: 9780385737944Publication Date: 2009
Wither by
At age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years to live. Thanks to a botched effort to create a perfect race, all females live to be twenty, and males live to age twenty-five. While geneticists seek a miracle antidote, orphans roam the streets and polygamy abounds. After Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she is desperate to escape from her husband's strange world, which includes a sinister father-in-law in search of the antidote and a slew of sister wives who are not to be trusted. On the cusp of her seventeenth birthday, Rhine attempts to flee but what she finds is a society spiraling into anarchy. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series DESISBN: 9781442409057Publication Date: 2011
Rot and Ruin by
In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.
Call Number: YA Series MABISBN: 9781442402324Publication Date: 2010-09-14
Birthmarked by
In a dystopian future, the world is divided between those who live inside the wall, and those, like sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone and her mother, who live outside. Gaia has always believed that it was their duty as midwives to periodically hand over a small quota of babies to the Enclave. But when Gaia's mother is taken away by the very people she serves so dutifully, Gaia is forced to wonder whether unquestioning service to the Enclave is everything she's been taught to believe. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series OBRISBN: 9781596435698Publication Date: 2010
Delirium by
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series OLIISBN: 9780061726828Publication Date: 2011
Across the Universe by
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next. (ISBN)
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9781595143976Publication Date: 2011
Divergent by
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, & that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series ROTISBN: 9780062024022Publication Date: 2011
Uglies by
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series WESISBN: 9780689865381Publication Date: 2005
Titles available at Other RCLS Libraries
The Rule of Claw by
Ash and her friends don't know it yet, but they're the only human teenagers left on Earth. They've grown up alone, without adults, in the safety of their camp. But when they explore beyond the fence, they find only danger, in this page-turning adventure of accelerated evolution, genetic engineering, and global warming. (ISBN)
ISBN: 9781580136082Publication Date: 2009
The Carbon Diaries 2015 by
It's the year 2015, a time when global warning has begun to ravage the environment. In response, the United Kingdom becomes the first country to mandate carbon rationing--a well-intentioned plan that goes tragically awry. This story of one girl's attempt to stay grounded in a world where disaster has become the norm is told in short diary entries. Also sequel, Carbon Diaries 2017. (ISBN)
ISBN: 9780823421909Publication Date: 2009
Sources & Other Lists
"Beyond the Hunger Games: Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults" by Patrick Smith
BOOKMARKS article JUL/AUG 2012
Top 12 Dystopian Novels -- listverse.com
Valley Cottage Library Hunger Games LibGuide 
NOTE: The links are through the Valley Cottage catalog access. If you place a hold, be sure to make your pick-up location the library you prefer (if allowed).
Subject Guide
Books from Teen Zone Fiction
Enclave by
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous. (ISBN)
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9780312650087Publication Date: 2011
Feed by
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA ANDISBN: 9780763617264Publication Date: 2002
Ship Breaker by
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series BACISBN: 9780316056212Publication Date: 2010-05-01
The Drowned Cities (Companion to: Ship breaker) by
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series BACISBN: 9780316056243Publication Date: 2012
Candor by
For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge. (ISBN)
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9781606840443Publication Date: 2009
Drought by
Ruby's blood holds the secret to the Water that keeps her and her fellow Congregants alive and enriches Darwin West, who has enslaved them for two centuries, but when her romance with an Overseer, Ford, brings her freedom in the modern world, she faces a terrible choice. (ISBN)
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9781606840160Publication Date: 2011
Killer of Enemies by
Years ago, seventeen year old Apache hunter Lozen and her family lives in a world of haves and have-nots. There were the Ones (people so augmented with technology and genetic enhancements that they were barely human) and there was everyone else who served the Ones. Then the Cloud came, and everything changed. Tech stopped working. The world plunged back into a new steam age. The Ones' pets - genetically engineered monsters - turned on them and are now loose on the world. Lozen was not one of the lucky ones pre-C, but fate has given her a unique set of survival skills and magical abilities. She hunts monsters for the Ones who survived the apocalyptic events of the Cloud, which ensures the safety of her kidnapped family. But with every monster she takes down, Lozen's powers grow, and she connects those powers to an ancient legend of her people. It soon becomes clear to Lozen that she is not just a hired gun... Lozen is meant to be a hero.
Call Number: YA BRUISBN: 9781620141434Publication Date: 2013
The Way We Fall by
Sixteen-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community. (ISBN)
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9781423146162Publication Date: 2012-01-24
After the Snow by
The oceans stopped working before Willo was born, so the world of ice and snow is all he's ever known. He lives with his family deep in the wilderness, far from the government's controlling grasp. Willo's survival skills are put to the test when he arrives home one day to find his family gone. It could be the government; it could be scavengers -- all Willo knows is he has to find refuge and his family. It is a journey that will take him into the city he's always avoided, with a girl who needs his help more than he knows.
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9780312641696Publication Date: 2012
Inhuman by
In a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father's life is forfeit.
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9780545370998Publication Date: 2013
The House of the Scorpion by
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA FARISBN: 9780689852220Publication Date: 2002
Away (Sequel to: The Line) by
After helping heal Malgam, Rachel learns that her father is still living in the devastated territory of Away, captured by members of another clan who are planning to use him to make a deal with the government on the other side of the Line, and she joins the rescue party that must risk much to save him. (ISBN)
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9780803735026Publication Date: 2011
The Line by
Rachel thinks that she and her mother are safe working for Ms. Moore at her estate close to The Line, an invisible border of the Unified States, but when Rachel has an opportunity to Cross into the forbidden zone, she is both frightened and intrigued. (ISBN)
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9780803734661Publication Date: 2010
Legend by
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series LUISBN: 9780399256752Publication Date: 2011
The Legacy (Sequel to: Resistance) by
What happens when a drug that promises eternal life turns out to have an expiration date? It's up to Peter, Anna, and their friends to alert the world to the terrifying truth behind Longevity before it's too late. (ISBN)
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9781599905679Publication Date: 2011
The Declaration by
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her. (ISBN)
Call Number: RCLSISBN: 9781599901190Publication Date: 2007
Life As We Knew It by
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. (ISBN)
Call Number: 8th grade summer readingISBN: 9780152058265Publication Date: 2006
Article 5 by
Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff penalties, but when Chase, the only boy she has ever loved, arrests her rebellious mother, Ember must take action. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA Series SIMISBN: 9780765329585Publication Date: 2012
Partials by
The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war. [ISBN]
Call Number: YA WELISBN: 9780062071040Publication Date: 2012
The Bar Code Tattoo by
Kayla, 17, Female. Psychic, Resists getting a bar code tattoo, which is used for eveything from a driver's license to shopping, because she doesn't want to be labeled; the government starts to make the tattoo mandatory; she joins a resistance group; she begins to have confusing visions of the future; forced to runaway after being implicated in her mother's death; finds romance and a safe haven; learns to harness her psychic abilities to fight the government. (ISBN)
Call Number: YA WEYISBN: 0439395623Publication Date: 2004
