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Surviving the End of the World: Teen Dystopian

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  • A deadly and unprecedented virus is spreading. But those who survive it experience long-term effects no one has ever seen before: utter contentment. Soon after infection, people find the stress, depression, greed, and other negative feelings that…
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2025] — FIC SHU
  • In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa, her childhood friend Gideon, now a traumatized military hero, and Dek, a streetwise orphan, enter enemy territory and discover the shocking truth about a conflict that began more than…
    Book, 2011New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011. — Fiction Haddix
  • The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named. No one has hope for the delinquent teenagers who have been exiled there; the world barely acknowledges that they exist. Then the guards at Hope start acting strange. And one day... they don't…
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2022] — TEEN THR Nij
  • When mankind's attempts to control nature backfire, Texas descends into a wasteland. Storms rage and ravenous beasts roam the Outer Grid. The only safe havens rest inside the tech-obsessed domed cities. But when her parents are murdered inside the…
    Book, 2024Carol Stream, Illinois : Enclave Publishing, [2024] — TEEN SciFi Lew
  • Girls in New America must have a chaperone with them at all times. Because of this, Stella is never alone. She can't go out by herself or learn about the world. She can't even spend time with boys except at formal Visitations. Still, Stella feels…
    Book, 2023Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2023] — TEEN FICTION HEN
  • As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic…
    Book, 2012New York : Feiwel & Friends, 2012. — YA Fiction Meyer, M
  • In dystopic Seattle, storms have devastated Earth’s population, a new virus is spreading, and the privileged live inside domes controlled by Aegis Corp. Healthcare is earned by hours accrued working in Aegis’s pharmaceutical factories. If you run…
    Book, 2025Atlanta : Peachtree Teen, 2025. — YADULT FICTION NEW
  • Accused of committing a horrifying act, Zu goes on the run, forming an uncomfortable alliance with two mysterious Psi who she's not sure she can trust in order to clear her name and expose the evils underlying the country's recovery.
    Book, 2018New York : Hyperion, 2018. — Fiction Bracken
  • Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim…
    Book, 2015New York, New York : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015] — TEEN FICTION TAH
  • By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society. Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa,…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — REID, Ava
  • Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts. He's got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property's main theme park. Life isn't so great for the rest of the world, but when…
    Book, 2022New York : Scholastic Press, 2022. — Fiction Giles
  • Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
    Book, 2018Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] — J Fiction Lowry
  • Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.
    Book, 2019New York : Wednesday Books, 2019. — YADULT FICTION LIG
  • In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2018. — T FICTION WESTERFELD SCOTT
  • Ruti is Markless. In a society where worth is determined by the mark on your palm and the magic it grants you, this also deems her worthless. Except she's also a hardened survivor, a protector of the Markless--and the most powerful witch in…
    Book, 2024Montclair, [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, 2024. — YA F Mal
  • In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population--and it is their marrow that holds…
    Book, 2017Toronto, Canada : Dancing Cat Books, [2017] — DIMALINE, Cherie
  • Seventy-three years after the events of The Death Cure, the descendents of Thomas and other immunes have thrived. Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan,…
    Book, 2022[Red Bank, New Jersey] : Akashic Media Enterprises, [2022] — TEEN DASHNER JAMES
  • It's been twenty years since the monstrous war that almost tore New World apart, and there's a new generation on the planet. Todd and Viola's sons Ben and Max have known only peace growing up on the family farm outside a bustling human settlement.…
    Book, 2026Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2026. — T Fiction Nes
  • In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king…
    Book, 2015New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015] — T FIC AVE
  • A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population…
    Book, 2016New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2016] — Fiction Shusterman