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Waiting for Sunrise on the Reaping?

Are you on the wait list for the newest Hunger Games prequel? Or maybe you just finished it and are in the mood for something similar. Either way, why not check out some of our other favorite young adult dystopian books? And when it comes to that previously mentioned wait list, well...may the odds be ever in your favor. *List created by Heather at our Green Hills Library Center*

Mid-Continent Public Library

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  • The Hunger Games meets Percy Jackson meets Mesoamerica as ten demigods battle for the honor of restoring the dying sun by sacrificing the weakest player.
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2022. — YF THOMAS
  • Suzanne Collins's first bestselling series features another reluctant warrior, Gregor, who is sucked into an underground civilization on the edge of war.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Scholastic Press, [2003] — JF COLLINS
  • A nation obsessed with violence and reality TV. An underdog heroine with an ax to grind. A staged romance becoming something real. Yeah, you get the idea.
    eBookBloomsbury Publishing, 2010
  • Like your dystopias to have some techno flavor like Ready Player One? Follow Simon as he dives into a VR game so addictive players never want to unplug.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2017] — YF SEGEL
  • When her parents go missing a teen midwife living in a wasteland sets off to find both them and the babies her people are forced to birth and surrender.
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook, 2010. — YF O'BRIEN
  • Your body doesn't belong to you in this futuristic tale where lives can never be "terminated" but parents can "unwind" their children for a do-over.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009. — YF SHUSTERMAN
  • In this Mad Max-like series a sheltered girl crosses a desert full of giant worm monsters to a brutal city where she is forced to either fight or die.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2011] — YF
  • Set in a near future but with echoes of the 1940s, a Muslim-American teen is relocated to an internment camp and joins a resistance, with violent results.
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — YF AHMED
  • You think your job is rough? Try working at a resort that doubles as a doomsday oasis for the rich, where subpar customer service will *not* be tolerated.
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2022. — YF GILES
  • Under a ruthless one-child policy two twins have managed to keep their secret for 18 years, but when the truth is exposed they must fight for their lives.
    BookNew York : Skyscape, [2018] — YF SAUNDERS
  • After the violent Martial Empire arrests her brother, Laia trades her Scholar life for one of a spy as a slave in the home of a sadistic military officer.
    BookNew York, New York : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015] — YF TAHIR
  • An eco-dystopia with underlying themes of government corruption and the question of who does or doesn’t deserve human rights.
    BookAshland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2023. — YF VICTOIRE
  • In space all crimes are punishable by death, but 100 juvenile offenders are given a new chance at life (or death) when they are sent to recolonize Earth.
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — YF MORGAN
  • Welcome to the kingdom of Kandala, where plague rages and rebels battle, but the most dangerous thing of all is an ally ready to stab you in the back.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury, 2021. — YF KEMMERER