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Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard · 388 pages

Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steals what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace it

Class StruggleTrials and TournamentsPolitical IntrigueYoung Adult
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The Elite

Kiera Cass · 336 pages

Thirty-five girls came to the palace to compete in the Selection. All but six have been sent home. And only one will get to marry Prince Maxon and be crowned princess of Illea. America still isn’t sure where her heart lies. When she’s with Maxon, she’s swept up in their new and breathless romance, and can’t dream of being with anyone else. But whenever she sees Aspen standing guard around the p

Trials and TournamentsClass StrugglePolitical IntrigueYoung Adult
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The Winner's Crime

Marie Rutkoski · 417 pages

The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria's crown prince is the event of a lifetime, but to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making, so as she aches to tell the truth about her engagement, she becomes a skilled practitioner of deceit and as a spy passes information and gets close to uncovering a shocking secret. To Kestrel, the engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria's crown prince mean

Class StruggleColonialismPolitical IntrigueYoung Adult
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Lightlark (the Lightlark Saga Book 1)

Alex Aster · 432 pages

Trials and TournamentsPolitical IntrigueYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Ash Princess

Laura Sebastian · 437 pages

Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered before her eyes. On that day, the Kaiser took Theodosia s family, her land, and her name. Theo was crowned Ash Princess a title of shame to bear in her new life as a prisoner. For ten years, the Ash Princess has seen her land pillaged and her people enslaved. That all ends here.

ColonialismPolitical IntrigueYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Hunger Games 5-Book Box Set (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Sunrise on the Reaping)

Suzanne Collins · 1,748 pages

Get Suzanne Collins's full Hunger Games series with this complete five-book set including The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Sunrise on the Reaping. "Whereas Katniss kills with finesse, Collins writes with raw power." -- Time Magazine In the nation of Panem lies a shining Capitol, surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the distr

Trials and TournamentsClass StruggleYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

Alison Goodman · 576 pages

Sixteen-year-old Eon has a dream, and a mission. For years, he's been studying sword-work and magic, toward one end. He and his master hope that he will be chosen as a Dragoneye-an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But Eon has a dangerous secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been masquerading as a twelve-year-old boy. Females are forbidden t

Trials and TournamentsPolitical IntrigueYoung AdultFantasy
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The Pledge

Kimberly Derting

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.

Class StrugglePolitical IntrigueYoung AdultFantasy
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House of Marionne

J. Elle · 432 pages

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultPolitical IntrigueTeen Protagonist
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The Will of the Many

James Islington · 720 pages

"At the elite Catenan Academy, where students are prepared as the future leaders of the Hierarchy empire, the curriculum reveals a layered set of mysteries which turn murderous in this new fantasy by bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington. Vis, the adopted son of Magnus Quintus Ulcisor, a prominent senator within the Hierarchy, is trained to enter the famed Catenan Academy to

Trials and TournamentsClass StrugglePolitical IntrigueFantasy
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Prodigy

Marie Lu · 408 pages

June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.

Class StrugglePolitical IntrigueYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Roseanne A. Brown · 466 pages

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Legendborn

Tracy Deonn · 512 pages

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants to escape. A residential programme for bright high-schoolers seems like the perfect opportunity – until she witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus . . . A flying demon feeding on human energies.

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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Tricksters

Tamora Pierce · 590 pages

ColonialismPolitical IntrigueYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Red Rising

Pierce Brown · 400 pages

"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them." "I live for you," I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more." Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and hi

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Monsters of Men

Patrick Ness · 624 pages

ColonialismPolitical IntrigueYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 336 pages

Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty — especially if they learn of her Sight — and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter · 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultFantasyTeen Protagonist
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The Jewel

Amy Ewing · 379 pages

Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children. Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children. The plot co

Class StrugglePolitical IntrigueYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir · 464 pages

"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 that they will help to save her brother from execution"--

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFantasy
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Grave Mercy

Robin LaFevers · 549 pages

*Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?* Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassi

Young AdultPolitical IntrigueFantasyTeen Protagonist
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Gilded Cage

Vic James · 358 pages

"For readers of Victoria Aveyard and Kiera Cass comes a darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule--and commoners are doomed to serve. NOT ALL ARE FREE. NOT ALL ARE EQUAL. NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED. Our world belongs to the Equals--aristocrats with magical gifts--and all commoners must serve them for ten years. But behind the gates of England's grandest es

Class StrugglePolitical IntrigueTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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A Broken Blade

Melissa Blair · 427 pages

ColonialismPolitical IntrigueFantasyYoung Adult

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