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Eve & Adam

Michael Grant, Katherine Applegate · 304 pages

After being in a car accident, a patient recovering in her mother's research facility is given the task of creating the perfect boy using detailed simulation technologies.

Genetic EngineeringMad ScientistScience FictionYoung Adult
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Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood · 389 pages

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help

Genetic EngineeringMad ScientistScience FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Uglies

Scott Westerfeld · 432 pages

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay is

Genetic EngineeringFirst LoveYoung AdultScience Fiction
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Fang

James Patterson · 309 pages

**Fang will be the first to die.** Maximum Ride is used to to living desperately on the run from evil forces sabotaging her quest to save the world - but nothing has ever come as close to destroying her as this horrifying prophetic message. Fang is Max's best friend, her soul mate, her partner in the leadership of her flock of winged children. A life without Fang is a life unimaginable. **Bu

Genetic EngineeringMad ScientistScience FictionYoung Adult
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Altered

Jennifer Rush

Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Agency, along with the four teen boys the Agency had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.

Genetic EngineeringYoung AdultScience FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Unremembered

Jessica Brody · 307 pages

A girl, estimated to be sixteen, awakens with amnesia in the wreckage of a plane crash she should not have survived and taken into foster care, and the only clue to her identity is a mysterious boy who claims she is part of a science experiment that will take place in 100 years.

Genetic EngineeringYoung AdultScience FictionFirst Person Narrator
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The Diabolic

S.J. Kincaid · 416 pages

Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager and the galaxy's most deadly weapon, who masquerades as Sidonia, a senator's daughter, and becomes a hostage of the galactic court.

Genetic EngineeringScience FictionYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Book of Phoenix

Nnedi Okorafor · 236 pages

"Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York's Tower 7. She is an 'accelerated woman'--only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix's abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love of

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Borne

Jeff VanderMeer · 353 pages

In a ruined city, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small creature named "Borne" tangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic bear made by a biotech firm. She knows her lover, Wick, is keeping secrets about working there, so she searches his stuff and finds a journal titled "Mord." What is he hiding?

Genetic EngineeringMad ScientistScience FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Prodigal Son

Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson · 469 pages

"Detectives O'Conner and Maddison delve deeper into the mysterious life of Victor Helios, trying to uncover his ultimate goal, while members of Victor's "new race" begin to show they are not perfect has he assumed. Randall Six continues his quest to escape from Hands of Mercy, as Officer Harker descends further into madness. And Erika Helios discovers some of her husbands unfinished creations." p.

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The Declaration

Gemma Malley · 310 pages

Set in a bleak future world, this novel tells the story of a young woman, Anna, who lives a harsh life in the isolation of an institution for children who were born against the rules, Grange Hall, a place that is governed by strict rules and where she learns unquestioning obedience - That is, until Peter arrives, and Anna learns from him, shocking things about the world outside - This makes her qu

ImmortalityGenetic EngineeringScience FictionYoung Adult
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The Twilight Saga

Stephenie Meyer · 2,446 pages

ForestImmortalityFirst LoveYoung Adult
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Enders

Lissa Price · 273 pages

"With the Prime Destinations body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves"--

Genetic EngineeringScience FictionYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Death Sentence

Alexander Gordon Smith

After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence--or worse--hanging over his head.

Mad ScientistGenetic EngineeringYoung AdultScience Fiction
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Seed to Harvest

Octavia E. Butler · 784 pages

The Patternist series, originally published from 1977-1984, details a secret history continuing into from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague. A profile of Butler in Black Women in America notes that the themes of the series include "racial and gender-based animosity, the ethical implications of biological engineering,

ImmortalityGenetic EngineeringScience FictionSeries Starter
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Chosen Ones

Tiffany Truitt · 400 pages

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Synthetic Men of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 192 pages

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Blood Ties

Sophie McKenzie

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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer · 380 pages

The story takes place in the country of Opium, a strip of land between Mexico (now called Aztlán), and the United States. Opium, which is essentially an opium-producing estate, is ruled by Matteo Alacrán, also known as El Patrón. El Patrón's work-force consists of illegal immigrants whom the Farm Patrol (ex-criminals who are tempted with the offer of protection from the police) enslave when they c

Genetic EngineeringImmortalityYoung AdultScience Fiction
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Unearthly

Cynthia Hand

Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers.

First LoveForestYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Gathering

Kelley Armstrong · 368 pages

Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.

Genetic EngineeringForestYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Lost World

Michael Crichton · 96 pages

Genetic EngineeringForestMad ScientistScience Fiction
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False Memory

Dan Krokos

Soon after seventeen-year-old Miranda awakens with no memory, she discovers that she can release a mysterious energy that incites pure terror in everyone around her except Peter, who tells her she is part of an elite force of genetically-altered teens.

Genetic EngineeringYoung AdultScience FictionSeries Starter
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Tiger's Curse

Colleen Houck · 456 pages

The last thing teenager Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing over the summer was meeting Ren, a mysterious white tiger and cursed Indian prince! When she learns she alone can break the Tiger's curse, Kelsey's life is turned upside-down. The unlikely duo journeys halfway around the world to piece together an Indian prophecy, find a way to free the man trapped by a centuries-old spell, and discover t

First LoveForestYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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