Dystopian YA Booklists
Interested but not sure where to start? Need some recommendations? Here are some booklists to get you started.
Popular Series
Optimism is for Chumps: Dystopia's where it's at.
More Useful Things
Feeling wary of dystopia? Check out this survival guide before you start reading: Dystopian Teen Novels: A Survivor's Guide
Still not sure what to read? Here is a link to a booklist created by the Young Adult Library Services Association: "Dystopian Novels"
Popular Series
- Blood Red Road | Rebel Heart | Raging Star by Moira Young
- Cinder | Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles)
- Delirium | Pandemonium | Requiem by Lauren Oliver
- Divergent | Insurgent | Allegiant by Veronica Roth
- Gone | Light by Michael Grant
- The Hunger Games | Catching Fire | Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- The Kill Order | The Maze Runner | The Scorch Trials | Death Cure by James Dashner
- Legend | Prodigy by Marie Lu
- Life as We Knew It | The Dead and the Gone | This World We Live In by Susan B Pfeffer (The Last Survivor’s Series)
- Matched | Crossed | Reached by Allie Condie
- Uglies | Pretties | Specials | Extras by Scott Westerfeld
Optimism is for Chumps: Dystopia's where it's at.
- Across the Universe by Beth Revis
- Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Bumped by Megan McCafferty
- Enclave by Ann Aguirre
- The End Games by T. Michael Martin
- The Enemy by Charles Higson
- Feed M.T. Anderson
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
- Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
- Pure by Julianna Baggott
- Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Starters by Lissa Price
- The Selection by Keira Cass
- The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
- Wither by Lauren DeStefano
More Useful Things
Feeling wary of dystopia? Check out this survival guide before you start reading: Dystopian Teen Novels: A Survivor's Guide
Still not sure what to read? Here is a link to a booklist created by the Young Adult Library Services Association: "Dystopian Novels"