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Young Adult & Dystopian
Coming-of-age stories set against high-stakes, broken worlds, built for readers who read in intense, fast streaks.
Shatter Me
Shatter Me's stream-of-consciousness prose and strikethrough text were unusual for YA dystopia when it came out and still stand out; Juliette's touch-is-a-weapon premise is the hook, but Mafi's prose style is the real si…
Sunrise on the Reaping
Sunrise on the Reaping reframes a Hunger Games side detail (Haymitch's Quarter Quell) into a full prequel, and it's noticeably darker about exactly how the Capitol manipulates its own narrative. Knowing Haymitch's bitter…
The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games
The book that defined a decade of YA dystopia; Katniss's survival instincts and the Games' moral compromises hold up well past the trend it kicked off. If you've only seen the films, the book's first-person, present-tens…
They Both Die at the End
The premise (an app that calls to tell you you'll die today) does the heavy lifting, but the book's real strength is how ordinary and specific Mateo and Rufus's single day together is. It's a book readers go into knowing…