Collins, Suzanne. The
Hunger Games (Hunger Games trilogy, #1)
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain
control through an annual televised survival competition pitting
young people from each of the twelve districts against one another,
sixteen-year-old Katniss' skills are put to the test when she
voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. (YA Fic SF Collins)
Adlington, L.J. The
Diary of Pelly D
When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds
the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down
by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.
(YA Fic SF Adlington)
Aguirre, Ann. Enclave
In a post-apocalyptic future, 15-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress,
brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave,
but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade,
she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and
dangerous. (YA Fic SF Aguirre)
Anderson, M.T. Feed
In a future where most people have computer implants in their
heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl
who is in serious trouble. (YA Fic SF Anderson)
Asada, Hiroyuki. Letter
Bee (Tegami bachi, #1)
In the dimly illuminated world of Amberground, where only the
postal workers known as Letter Bees connect people who are separated,
Lag Seeing becomes a Letter Bee like Gauche Suede, the one who
transported him when he was a boy. (YA 741.5 Asada)
Bick, Ilsa J. Ashes
Alex, a resourceful 17-year-old running from her incurable brain
tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an
angry 8-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps
through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning
some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman
senses. (YA Fic M Bick)
Bloor, Edward. Taken
In 2036 kidnapping rich children has become an industry, but when
13-year-old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom, she soon
discovers that this particular kidnapping is not what it seems.
(YA Fic Bloor)
Bodeen, S.A. The
Compound
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in
a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect
them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin
brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father
has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them. (D-11946 YA Book on
Disc Bodeen)
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit
451
A book burning official in a future fascist state finds out that
books are a vital part of a culture he never knew, and he decides
to pursue reading, until he is betrayed. (YA Fic SF -- Classics
rack Bradbury)
Cass, Kiera. The
Selection
16-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation
of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United
States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest
to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all
she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love,
Aspen, who is a caste below her. (YA Fic SF Cass)
Colfer, Eoin. The
Supernaturalist
In futuristic Satellite City, 14-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from
his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who
share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together
they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites
that are invisible to most humans. (Juv Fic SF Colfer)
Condie, Allyson Braithwaite.
Matched
(Matched trilogy, #1)
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates
everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live,
what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia
as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best
friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her
neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well? (YA Fic
SF Condie)
Crewe, Megan. The
Way We Fall
16-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance
at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly
new virus devastates her island community. (YA Fic Crewe)
Crockett, S.D. After
the Snow
15-year-old Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows created a new
ice age, searches for his family, who mysteriously disappeared
from their frozen mountain home, and encounters outlaws, halfmen,
and an abandoned girl along the way. (YA Fic SF Crockett)
Dashner, James. The
Maze Runner (Maze runner trilogy, #1)
When Thomas wakes up with no memory of his past life, he finds
himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade - a large,
open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the
Gladers don't know why or how they got to the Glade. All they
know is that every 30 days a new boy is delivered. Then one day,
the first girl arrives. And she brings with her a shocking message.
(YA Fic SF Dashner)
Derting, Kimberly. The
Pledge
In a dystopian kingdom where the classes are separated by the
languages they speak, Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has a
secret gift that is revealed when she meets a mysterious young
man named Max. (YA Fic SF Derting)
DeStefano, Lauren. Wither
(Chemical Garden, #1)
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb
with men dying at age 25 and women dying at age 20, girls are
kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world. (YA
Fic SF DeStefano)
DeVita, James. The
Silenced
Consigned to a prison-like Youth Training Facility because of
her parents' political activities, Marena organizes a resistance
movement to combat the restrictive policies of the ruling Zero
Tolerance party. (YA Fic SF DeVita)
Doctorow, Cory. Little
Brother
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland
Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco,
California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now
a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking
to set things right. (YA Fic SF Doctorow)
Dunkle, Clare B. The
Sky Inside
Martin lives in a domed suburb. Every year a new generation of
children arrives on a conveyer belt to meet their parents. But
when a man arrives to take a group of children away including
Martin's sister Cassie, he decides to find out what is beyond
the dome and why his sister was taken away. (YA Fic SF Dunkle)
DuPrau, Jeanne. The
City of Ember (Ember series, #1)
In the year 241, 12-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day
to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved
city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. (Juv Fic SF DuPrau)
Emerson, Kevin. The
Lost Code (Atlanteans, #1)
Owen Parker learns that he is a descendant of a highly advanced
ancient race that almost destroyed the Earth with their advanced
technologies, and he is determined to unlock the code in his genes
to rediscover the forgotten knowledge of his ancestry and save
the world, which is in serious danger. (YA Fic SF Emerson)
Falkner, Brian. Brain
Jack
In a near-future New York City, 14-year-old computer genius Sam
Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off
a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity
throughout the world. (YA Fic SF Falkner)
Farmer, Nancy. The
House of the Scorpion
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status
as the young clone of El Patro?n, the 142-year-old leader of a
corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
(YA Fic SF Farmer)
Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron
(Incarceron, #1)
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the
daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with
a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape. (YA
Fic SF Fisher)
Fukui, Isamu. Truancy
In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control
through education, 15-year-old Tack is torn between a growing
sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement determined to
bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a
death caused by a Truant. (YA Fic SF Fukui)
Goodman, Allegra. The
Other Side of the Island
Born in the eighteenth year of Enclosure, 10-year-old Honor lives
in a highly regulated colony with her defiant parents, but when
they have an illegal second child and are taken away, it is up
to Honor and her friend Helix, another "unpredictable,"
to uncover a terrible secret about their island and the corporation
that runs everything. (YA Fic SF Goodman)
Grant, Michael. Gone
(Gone series, #1)
In the blink of an eye, every adult in the world disappears. Hunger
threatens. Bullies rule. And the teens themselves are developing
new powers that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new
world. Sides are being chosen and war is imminent. (YA Fic SF
Grant)
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
Among
the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)
Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by
the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding. Then,
one day Luke meets another shadow child like himself. Jen is willing
to risk everything to come out of the shadows - does Luke dare
to become involved in her dangerous plan? (Juv Fic SF Haddix)
Hall, Teri. The
Line
Rachel thinks that she and her mother are safe working for Ms.
Moore at her estate close to The Line, an invisible border of
the Unified States, but when Rachel has an opportunity to Cross
into the forbidden zone, she is both frightened and intrigued.
(YA Fic SF Hall)
Hautman, Pete. Rash
In a future society that has decided it would "rather be
safe than free," 16-year-old Bo's anger control problems
land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his
running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
(YA Fic SF Hautman)
Hirsch, Jeff. The
Eleventh Plague
Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse,
15-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse
America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father
decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers,
Stephen's life is turned upside down. (YA Fic SF Hirsch)
Hughes, Monica. The
Game
Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of
2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence
in their "Designated Area" until the government invites
them to play The Game. The Game is a virtual reality experience
where they are challenged to survive. But as they spend more time
in The Game, the line between reality and fantasy starts to blur.
What started as a simple exercise quickly becomes a test of endurance,
trust, and their will to live. Previously published as: Invitation
to the Game. (YA Fic SF Hughes)
Huxley, Aldous. Brave
New World
A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which
babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.
(YA Fic -- Classics rack Huxley)
Knutsson, Catherine. Shadows
Cast By Stars
To escape a government that needs antigens in aboriginal blood
to stop a plague, 16-year-old Cassandra and her family flee to
the Island, where she not only gets help in communicating with
the spirit world, she learns she has been chosen to be their voice
and instrument. (YA Fic SF Knutsson)
Kostick, Conor. Epic
(Epic, #1)
On New Earth, society is governed by a computer game, Epic. If
you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams; if you lose,
your life is forfeit. When Erik defies the rules of Epic, he and
his friends must face the Committee. If they win, they have the
key to destroying the Committee. But if they lose
(YA Fic
SF Kostick)
Lloyd, Staci. Carbon
Diaries 2015
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon
dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old
Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals
out of control. (YA Fic SF Lloyd)
Lowry, Lois. The
Giver
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. (Juv Fic SF Lowry)
Lu, Marie. Legend
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring
nations, 15-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June,
the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they
have a common enemy. (YA Fic SF Lu)
Malley, Gemma. The
Declaration (Declaration trilogy, #1)
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and
children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus"
training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents
are trying to find her. (YA Fic SF Malley)
Marsden, John. Tomorrow,
When the War Began. (Tomorrow series, #1)
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush
to discover that their country has been invaded and they must
hide to stay alive. (YA Fic Marsden)
Meyer, Marissa. Cinder
(The Lunar chronicles, #1)
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 take on the Cinderella
story. (YA Fic SF Meyer)
Mourlevat, Jean-Claude.
Winter's
End
Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men
sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like
boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government
that murdered their parents 15 years earlier. (YA Fic SF Mourlevat)
Mullin, Mike. Ashfall
(Ashfall series, #1)
After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his
city and its surroundings, 15-year-old Alex must journey from
Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister,
trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society
in which all the old rules of living have vanished. (YA Fic Mullin)
Nelson, O. T. The
Girl Who Owned a City
When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children
under twelve, 10-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a
new way of life. (Juv Fic SF Nelson)
Ness, Patrick. The
Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young
Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers
about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship
bringing hopeful settlers from Old World. (YA Fic SF Ness)
North, Pearl. Libyrinth
(Libyrinth series, #1)
In a distant future where Libyrarians preserve and protect the
ancient books that are housed in the fortress-like Libyrinth,
Haly is imprisoned by Eradicants, who believe that the written
word is evil, and she must try to mend the rift between the two
groups before their war for knowledge destroys them all. (YA Fic
SF North)
O'Brien, Caragh. Birthmarked
(Birthmarked trilogy, #1)
In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those
who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, 16-year-old
midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her
parents are arrested and taken into the city. (YA Fic SF O'Brien)
O'Brien, Robert.
Z
for Zachariah
Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a 16-year-old
girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she
realizes that he is a tyrant and she must escape. (Juv Fic SF
O'Brien)
Oliver, Lauren. Delirium
(Delirium series, #1)
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that
prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable,
and happy life, until 95 days before her 18th birthday and her
treatment, when she falls in love. (YA Fic SF Oliver)
Orwell, George. 1984
Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future
political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he
joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that
controls all human thought and action. (YA Fic SF Orwell)
Patrick, Cat. Forgotten
16-year-old London Lane forgets everything each night and must
use notes to struggle through the day, even to recall her wonderful
boyfriend, but she "remembers" future events and as
her "flashforwards" become more disturbing she realizes
she must learn more about the past lest it destroy her future.
(YA Fic SF Patrick)
Patterson, James. Witch
and Wizard (Witch & Wizard novels, #1)
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have
been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing
after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the
ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty,
music and books. (YA Fic SF Patterson)
Pearson, Mary E. The
Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
Who is Jenna Fox? She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her,
and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which
she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna
doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really
hers? (YA Fic SF Pearson)
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Life
As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
Through journal entries 16-year-old Miranda describes her family's
struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide
tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. (YA Fic)
Price, Lissa. Starters
(Starters, #1)
To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly
Hills, 16-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want
to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life
until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her
mind can stop it. (YA Fic SF Price)
Reeve, Philip. Fever
Crumb (Fever Crumb series, #1)
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although
females in the future London, England, are not believed capable
of rational thought. At age 14, she leaves her sheltered world
and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing
danger in the present. (Juv Fic SF Reeve) Prequel series
to Hungry City Chronicles.
Reeve, Philip. Mortal
Engines (The Hungry Cities Chronicles, #1)
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller
towns, a 15-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the
man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country,
aided by one girl and the memory of another. (Juv Fic SF Reeve)
Revis, Beth. Across
the Universe (Across the Universe trilogy, #1)
Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship
Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to
murder her. (YA Fic SF Revis)
Roberts, Jeyn. Dark
Inside
After tremendous earthquakes destroy the Earth's major cities,
an ancient evil emerges, turning ordinary people into hunters,
killers, and insane monsters but a small group of teens comes
together in a fight for survival and safety. (YA Fic SF Roberts)
Rosoff, Meg. How
I Live Now
To get away from her pregnant step-mother in New York City, 15-year-old
Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with
whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart
the family while devastating the land. (YA Fic Rosoff)
Rossi, Veronica. Under
the Never Sky
When Aria, a sheltered and fragile Dweller, is exiled from the
protected city, she must face a land filled with cannibals and
energy storms. Her only hope for staying alive is Outsider Perry,
a savage hunter. (YA Fic SF Rossi)
Roth, Veronica. Divergent
(Insurgent trilogy, #1)
In a future Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among
five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest
of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers
that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and
that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. Followed
by: Insurgent
(YA Fic SF Roth)
Sandler, Karen. Tankborn
Kayla and Mishalla, two genetically engineered non-human slaves
(GENs), fall in love with higher-status boys, discover deep secrets
about the creation of GENs, and find out what it means to be human.
(YA Fic SF Sandler)
Shusterman, Neal. Unwind
In a future world where those between the ages of 13 and 18 can
have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested
for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold
their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives. (YA Fic SF
Shusterman)
Smith, Alexander. Lockdown
(Escape from Furnace, #1)
When 14-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate
in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic
guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes
return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible. (YA
Fic SF Smith)
Snyder, Maria V. Inside
Out
Trella is a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower
levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. She's got one friend,
does her job and tries to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if she occasionally
uses the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck
at risk is her own
until she accidentally starts a rebellion
and becomes the go-to girl to lead a revolution. (YA Fic
SF Snyder)
Takami, Koushun. Battle
Royale
In an alternative future Japan, a group of 9th-grade students
are confined to a small isolated island where they must fight
each other for three days until only one survivor remains, as
part of the ultimate in reality television. (YA Fic SF Takami)
Thomas, Lex. The
Loners (Quarantine series, #1)
When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers
David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that
fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine.
(YA Fic SF Thomas)
Treggiari, Jo. Ashes,
Ashes
In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes
and epidemics, sixteen-year-old Lucy survives alone until vicious
hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, but
soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap
and infect people with plague. (YA Fic SF Treggiari)
Wells, Robison. Variant
(Varient series, #1)
After years in foster homes, 17-year-old Benson Fisher applies
to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter
future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no
one is what he or she seems. (YA Fic SF Wells)
Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies
(Uglies series, #1)
In a world in which everyone is transformed into a stunning beauty
at age 16, Tally has doubts. (YA Fic SF Westerfeld)
Young, Moira. Blood
Red Road (Dustlands trilogy, #1)
In a distant future, 18-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while
his twin sister Saba and 9-year-old Emmi are trailing him across
bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown,
where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help
plan an escape. (YA Fic SF Young)
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