The Always War by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa, her childhood friend Gideon, now a traumatized military hero, and Dek, a streetwise orphan, enter enemy territory and discover the shocking truth about a war that began more than seventy-five years earlier.
Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien
In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city.
Blood Red Road by Moira Young
In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister, Saba, and nine-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.
Brain Jack by Brian Falkner
Teenage computer genius Sam Wilson hacks into the AT &T network, setting off a chain of events that have profound effects on humanity,
Breathe by Sarah Crossan
In a barren land with little oxygen, Alina, Quinn, and Bea leave the safety of their dome with only two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks.
BZRK by Michael Grant
The conjoined Armsrong twins plot to create a utopia using nanobots, while BZRK, a guerilla group, develops a DNA-based biot that can stop them, but at a cost.
Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
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.
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Cinder becomes involved with Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story. (Sequel: Scarlet)
The Declaration by Gemma, Malley
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.
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
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 ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
Divergent by Veronica Roth
In a future Chicago, sixteen-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.
The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch
Stephen's life is turned upside down in a post-collapse America when his grandfather dies and his father takes great risks to save the lives of two strangers.
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
When Deuce, a loyal Huntress, partners with a mysterious outsider, she begins to see that the ways of the elders are wrong and dangerous.
Eve by Anna Carey
Eve sets off on a treacherous journey into the wilds of The New America, searching for a place where she can survive.
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Witness a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment.
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
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.
Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder
"...I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job, and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels. The only neck at risk is my own...until I accidentally start a rebellion and become the go-to-girl to lead a revolution"--Cover, P.[4].
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
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.
The Last Princess by Galaxy Craze
Princess Eliza escapes the coup of 2090, disguises herself, and joins the rebels to seek revenge and the safe return of her siblings.
Legend by Marie Lu
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
The Line by Teri Hall
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 then Rachel finds a mysterious recorded message that can only have come from the other side. The voice is asking for help. Who sent the message?
Matched by Alyson Condie
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.
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Memento Nora by Angie Smibert
In a near future in which terrorism is common place 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 about the experiences they want to remember.
Momentum by Saci Lloyd
With energy wars flaring across the globe, oil prices gone crazy, regular power cuts, and soldiers keeping the Outsiders in check, Hunter, one of the privileged of society, is fascinated by the Outsiders, so when he meets Uma he is quickly drawn into her circle of the poor and disenfranchised.
Naughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Sephy, a member of the dark-skinned ruling class, the Crosses, and Callum, a member of the underclass Naughts, are determined to stay together despite the fact that Callum is wanted for a terrorist attack against the Crosses.
Orleans by Sherri Smith
Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever"--Provided by publisher.
Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
Trent, a movie maker, joins other teen activists to fight a law criminalizing internet creativity. (Also by Doctorow: For the Win, Little Brother.)
Pulse by Patrick Carman
In the year 2051, when most Americans live in one of two gigantic, modern States, Faith Daniels, part of a dwindling group that lives between, learns that she, like other misfits, has unusual abilities that could help when the inevitable war begins.
Rash by Pete Hautman
In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-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.
Restoring Harmony by Joëlle Anthony
Ten years after the Great Collapse of 2031, sixteen-year-old Molly McClure, with only her fiddle for company, leaves the safety of her family's island home to travel through a dangerous and desolate wasteland on her way to Oregon to find her grandparents and persuade them to return with her to Canada.
Revived by Cat Patrick
Daisy is brought back from the dead by a government super drug called Revive, and begins to question intense government controls.
The Secret Under My Skin by Janet Elizabeth McNaughton
In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental conditions and one young woman, rescued from a workcamp and chosen for a special duty, uses her love of learning to discover the truth about the planet's future and her own dark past.
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Sky Ship Academy: The Pearl Wars by James Nick
In 2095, when a teen slacker discovers that he has the power to control fragments of precious space debris, government forces work to capture him.
Starters by Lissa Price
Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to be young again, until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
Swipe by Evan Angler
In a world where everyone must be Marked in order to gain citizenship and participate in society, a group of youngsters who questions the system struggles to identify the true enemy--while pursuing a group of Markless teenagers.
Tankborn by Karen Sandler
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 in the process find out what it means to be human.
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Just before their sixteenth birthdays whey they will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her adn turn her in, or never become pretty.
The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
In a futuristic alternative school set in a shopping mall where video game-playing students are observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research, Katey "Kid" Dade struggles to figure out where she fits in and whether she even wants to.
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen 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.
What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang
Eva and Addie, who live as two souls in one body, keep their outlawed "hybrid" condition a secret for fear of being locked away.
Wither by Lauren Destafano
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
