Here are our favorite dystopian novels for teens in high school. These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library. |
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Reckless
by Lauren Roberts
After killing the King and kickstarting the Resistance, Ordinary-born Paedyn is on the run from the boy she loves, Kai, an Enforcer for the new King, who has vowed to bring her to justice as the battle between duty and desire turns deadly. Book 2 of a series.
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The Fallout
by Kristy Acevedo
Eighteen-year-old Alexandra Lucas braves her anxiety and jumps through a vertex to the year 2359 where she joins forces with the Umbra, a secret organization, to warn people that the holograms are lying and that Earth still exists, but she is soon bewildered by the lack of outrage conveyed by some people when they learn the truth.
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The Q
by Amy Tintera
A trusted lieutenant for one of the post-pandemic quarantine zone's controlling families, 17-year-old Maisie Rojas has 48 hours to get the infected son of a U.S. presidential candidate out of the Q zone, where he was dropped, before disaster strikes.
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The Memory Index
by Julian R. Vaca
In a reimagined 1987, mankind's ability to remember has deteriorated. To fight memory loss, men and women rely on artificial recall by storing memories on tapes and playing them back. Lives are both upended when the founder of Memory Frontier, a billion-dollar corporation, announces the forthcoming release of groundbreaking medicaltechnology that will forever change artificial recall. Five hundred randomly selected students will be sent to a prestigious boarding school, where they will trial the new medical technology in pursuit of a "better tomorrow." But when everything is questioned when students disappear in the night under the watch of the school's ruthless, militaristic dean.
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Journey to the Heart of the Abyss
by London Shah
As tensions escalate between Anthropoid and non-Anthropoid communities, Leyla McQueen uncovers the startling truths about her world while unearthing secrets about her past and the authorities’ terrible future plans and must convince the people to take a stand now. Book 2 of a series.
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All That's Left in the World
by Erik J. Brown
Putting their trust in one another, two boys, Andrew and Jamie, search for civilization in a world ravaged by a deadly pathogen, but their secrets could cost them everything as they try to find the courage to fight for the future.
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The Stranded
by Sarah Daniels
Aboard the Arcadia, which was once a luxurious sea vessel but now a refugee camp after an apocalyptic war, loyal citizen Esther and rebel Nik are thrown together by events that change their lives and the lives of everyone on the ship forever.
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Under This Forgetful Sky
by Lauren Yero
When rebels infect his father with a fatal virus, 16-year-old Rumi escapes the armored walls of St. Iago to find a cure. He is joined on his journey by 15-year-old Paz but wonders if they can trust in each other enough to imagine a different world.
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The Warning
by Kristy Acevedo
A hologram claiming to be a human from the future shares a sinister warning: a comet is on a deadly collision course with Earth. To survive, people must step through one of the many portals that have opened around the world. The holograms claim to offer safety, but how can anyone be sure?
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The Getaway
by Lamar Giles
When Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts, suddenly offers the richest and most powerful families a safe haven from the nightmare outside its walls, Jay and his crew learn just how far they'll go to find out the truth and save themselves.
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The Grace Year
by Kim Liggett
Tierney dreams of a life outside the strict society that criminalizes teen girls and banishes them into the wild for one year to be cured of their "magic" but leaving could be more dangerous than staying.
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Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves
by Meg Long
On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is born to be a killer but bound to be her guide. As they fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide?
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The Block
by Ben Oliver
Fighting to retain his sanity in the face of Happy’s manipulation tactics while imprisoned within the virtual-reality world of the Block, Luka endeavors to build an army to prevent the disclosure of his friends’ secret hiding location.
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We Set the Dark on Fire
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
A society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after being recruited into a band of rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival.
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Ready Player Two
by Ernest Cline
A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
This title can be found in the Adult Fiction section of the library.
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Call Down the Hawk
by Maggie Stiefvater
In a world where dreamers have the ability to pull the wonders and catastrophes of their dreams into reality, a thief becomes inextricably tied to the dream objects she pursues while a hunter races to prevent destructive dreaming.
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Want
by Cindy Pon
A tale set in a heavily polluted Taipei of the near future follows the efforts of a group of teens to save their city in the face of social divisions that enable the wealthy to secure long, protected lives while the poor suffer illness and early death.
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The Darkest Legacy
by Alexandra Bracken
Five years after the destruction of the so-called rehabilitation camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids, seventeen-year-old Suzume 'Zu' Kimura must use her powerful voice to fight back and save the friends who were once her protectors.
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They Both Die at the End
by Adam Silvera
In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo and Rufus meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
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The Testing
by Joelle Charbonneau
Sixteen-year-old Cia Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
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