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All These Things I've Done

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Because It Is My Blood

Gabrielle Zevin

Organized CrimeNear FutureDystopianYoung Adult
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Awaken

Katie Kacvinsky, Katie Ray · 320 pages

In the year 2060, when people hardly ever leave the security of their houses and instead do everything online, Madeline Freeman, the seventeen-year-old daughter of the man who created the national digital school attended by all citizens, is wooed by a group of radicals who are trying to get people to "unplug."

Near FutureDystopianTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Vault of Dreamers

Caragh M. O'Brien · 425 pages

Rosie Sinclair, who attends an elite arts school where students are contestants on a high stakes reality show, skips her sleeping pill one night and discovers that the school is really a cover-up for the lucrative and sinister practice of dream harvesting.

DystopianNear FutureTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Mystic City

Theo Lawrence · 416 pages

In a Manhattan where the streets are under water and outcasts called mystics have paranormal powers, Aria Rose is engaged to Thomas Foster and the powerful Rose and Foster families--long time enemies--are uniting politically; the only trouble is that Aria can not remember ever meeting Thomas, much less falling in love with him.

DystopianNew York CityYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Starters

Lissa Price

Sixteen-year-old Callie, having lost every family member besides her little brother when a genocide spore killed all of those who were not vaccinated, thinks she has found a way to support them by renting her body to seniors who want to be young again, but after a neurochip malfunction results in her being stuck in the life of her rich renter, she uncovers the horrible plan of her boss and must ra

Near FutureDystopianTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Ward

Jordana Frankel

"Set in a futuristic Manhattan after a catastrophic flood called the Wash Out, sixteen-year-old Ren must race against a conspiracy to find freshwater springs and a cure for the deadly disease that has stricken her sister and many others in the Ward"--

DystopianNear FutureNew York CityYoung Adult
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The Darkest Minds

Alexandra Bracken · 528 pages

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that had killed most of America’s children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: f

DystopianNear FutureYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Double Cross

Malorie Blackman · 474 pages

The fourth novel in the award-winning Noughts & Crosses sequence - this powerful thriller also tackles new territory as its characters are caught up not just in race but also gang conflict.Everyone assumes the bomb that killed Callie Rose's grandmother was the work of a nought terrorist. But Callie Rose knows the truth - and her fear of the past leaves her afraid for her future.Her boyfriend Tobey

Organized CrimeDystopianTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Pulse

Patrick Carman · 384 pages

DystopianNear FutureTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Divided We Fall

Trent Reedy · 374 pages

Danny Wright, seventeen, joined the Idaho Army National Guard to serve the country as his father had, but when the Guard is sent to an anti-government protest in Boise and Danny's gun accidently fires, he finds himself at the center of a conflict that results in the federal government declaring war on Idaho.

Near FutureDystopianTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Crossed

Ally Condie · 408 pages

Seventeen-year-old Cassia sacrifices everything and heads to the Outer Provinces in search of Ky, where she is confronted with shocking revelations about Society and the promise of rebellion.

DystopianNear FutureTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Hit

Delilah S. Dawson · 330 pages

"Near future thriller about a teen forced to become an indentured assassin who has only three days to complete her hit list--with the added complication of her sole ally's brother being the final assignment"--

Near FutureDystopianYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Memento Nora

Angie Smibert

In a near future in which terrorism is commonplace but memories of horrors witnessed can be obliterated by a pill, teens Nora, Winter, and Micah, create an underground comic to share with their classmates the experiences they want to remember.

DystopianNear FutureTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Carbon Diaries 2015

Saci Lloyd · 379 pages

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.

Near FutureDystopianTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Book of Ivy

Amy Engel · 304 pages

DystopianTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Tell the Wind and Fire

Sarah Rees Brennan · 368 pages

In this near-future retelling of the Dickens classic "A Tale of Two Cities," a deadly revolution breaks out in a New York City divided by light and dark magic.

Near FutureDystopianNew York CityYoung Adult
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Hold Me Like a Breath

Tiffany Schmidt · 408 pages

In Penelope Landlow's world, almost anything can be bought or sold. She's the daughter of one of the three crime families controlling the black market for organ transplants. Because of an autoimmune disorder that causes her to bruise easily, Penny is considered too "delicate" to handle the family business or even to step foot outside their estate. All Penny has ever wanted is independence, unti

Organized CrimeYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
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The Immortal Rules

Julie Kagawa · 485 pages

DystopianYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
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The Angel Experiment

James Patterson · 440 pages

Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is

Near FutureTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultDystopian
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Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler · 299 pages

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been d

Near FutureDystopianTeen ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan · 310 pages

DystopianTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Son of the Mob

Gordon Korman · 262 pages

Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kids: his father happens to be the head of a powerful crime organization. Needless to say, while Vince's family's connections can be handy fo

Organized CrimeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Transparent

Natalie Whipple · 309 pages

"Sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Connell is the world's first invisible girl, which makes her the ideal weapon for her crime-lord father. But now, she and her mother have escaped and are hiding out in a small town where they're determined to start a normal life."--Publisher.

Organized CrimeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Ready Player One

Ernest Cline · 384 pages

In the year 2044. reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts *really* feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever ca

Near FutureDystopianTeen ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
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