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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Monarch Rising
by Harper Glenn
In a dystopian future seventeen-year-old Josephine Monarch has grown up in the Ashes, the poverty stricken borderlands of New Georgia, but today is the Lineup and if she is chosen she gets a chance to leave that behind--even though it will mean leaving all her loved ones behind, and embracing an uncertain future.
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Sunrise On the Reaping
by Suzanne Collins
It's the 50th annual Hunger Games and as the games begin, District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy realizes he's been set up to fail but something in him wants to fight.
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Coldwire
by Chloe Gong
A dystopian story following a young soldier who is framed for a political assassination and must team up with her country's most wanted terrorist to clear her name.
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Astro Royale, Vol. 1
by Ken Wakui
Hibaru must use his newly granted Astro powers to protect his community from enemies--except some of those enemies are his own siblings, and they have their own plans to take over the Yotsurugi family! Please note that this book is shelved in the Teen Graphic Novels collection.
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Thunder City
by Philip Reeve
Tamzin Pook, Hilly Torpenhow, mayor-to-be Max Angmering, and washed-up mercenary Oddington Doom. Together, they must find a way to outwit the assassins that are determined to drag Tamzin back to the arcade, and try to take back Motoropolis.
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Powerless
by Lauren Roberts
An Ordinary blending in with the Elites to stay alive and out of trouble, Paeydn is thrown into the Purging Trials when she unwittingly saves one of Ilya's princes, a brutal competition to showcase the Elites' powers—the very thing she lacks.
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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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Dry
by Neal Shusterman
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions and turns Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone. She is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
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