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Favourite dystopian books

The Hunger Games

Teens just love a good dystopia don't they?!

Discover an array of dystopian worlds in our recommended booklist.

Exodus

Author: Julie Bertagna

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 12+

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Exodus

Author: Julie Bertagna

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 12+

Exodus is a disturbing and relevant epic that explores many contemporary themes.
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More Than This

Author: Patrick Ness

Interest level: 14+

Reading age: 14+

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More Than This

Author: Patrick Ness

Interest level: 14+

Reading age: 14+

Carnegie Medal-winning author Patrick Ness tackles weighty questions of life and death head on in this provocative and challenging…
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Noble Conflict

Author: Malorie Blackman

Interest level: 14+

Reading age: 13+

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Noble Conflict

Author: Malorie Blackman

Interest level: 14+

Reading age: 13+

Kaspar is proud to be one of the Guardians - an elite peacekeeping force who protect the Alliance against the rebel Insurgency. Th…
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Incarceron

Author: Catherine Fisher

Interest level: 12+

Reading age: 12+

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Incarceron

Author: Catherine Fisher

Interest level: 12+

Reading age: 12+

A rich complex fantasy about two very different worlds
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The Declaration

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Interest level: 12+

Reading age: 8+

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The Declaration

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Interest level: 12+

Reading age: 8+

A chilling story of a future where Longevity drugs have made sections of the population almost immortal. This is a thought-provoki…
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The Knife of Never Letting Go

Author: Patrick Ness

Interest level: 12+

Reading age: 12+

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The Knife of Never Letting Go

Author: Patrick Ness

Interest level: 12+

Reading age: 12+

The first in a series, this enthralling sci-fi/fantasy novel grips readers throughout, presenting them with tough questions about …
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The Hunger Games

Author: Suzanne Colins

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 13+

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The Hunger Games

Author: Suzanne Colins

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 13+

Welcome to Panem: its Capitol repressively rules twelve satellite Districts, enslaving the populations as workers and controlling …
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Dark Satanic Mills

Author: Marcus & Julian Sedgwick Illustrator: John Higgins and Marc Olivent

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 13+

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Dark Satanic Mills

Author: Marcus & Julian Sedgwick Illustrator: John Higgins and Marc Olivent

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 13+

In a Britain laid to waste by catastrophic global warming, a motorcycle courier, Christy, and an atheist campaigner are on the run…
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Grasshopper Jungle

Author: Andrew Smith

Interest level: 14+

Reading age: 13+

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Grasshopper Jungle

Author: Andrew Smith

Interest level: 14+

Reading age: 13+

Grasshopper Jungle is both an exciting edge-of-your-seat young adult dystopia, and a bold and thoughtful novel about history and i…
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The Enemy

Author: Charlie Higson

Interest level: 11+

Reading age: 10+

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The Enemy

Author: Charlie Higson

Interest level: 11+

Reading age: 10+

When the sickness came, the adults became ill. The lucky ones died but many mutated into brainless, deformed monsters with a seemi…
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Blood Red Road

Author: Moira Young

Interest level: 13-18

Reading age: 13+

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Blood Red Road

Author: Moira Young

Interest level: 13-18

Reading age: 13+

A violent, desperate and compelling story about family, love and determination, which enthrals through its bold, powerful language…
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Matched

Author: Ally Condie

Interest level: 12+

Reading age: 12+

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Matched

Author: Ally Condie

Interest level: 12+

Reading age: 12+

Welcome to a Society that utterly controls its citizens; what they eat, what they do, who they marry - even when they die.
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The Rain

Author: Virginia Bergin

Interest level: 14+

Reading age: 13+

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The Rain

Author: Virginia Bergin

Interest level: 14+

Reading age: 13+

A funny, smart and wonderfully British take on dystopia that will leave readers eager for the next installment of Ruby's story.
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Ink

Author: Alice Broadway

Interest level: 12-16

Reading age: 12+

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Ink

Author: Alice Broadway

Interest level: 12-16

Reading age: 12+

The people around her may wear their lives tattooed on their skin, but Leora discovers that not everything is as it seems when her…
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Across the Universe

Author: Beth Revis

Interest level: 13-15

Reading age: 12+

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Across the Universe

Author: Beth Revis

Interest level: 13-15

Reading age: 12+

Amy and her family are cryogenically frozen and stored aboard the Godspeed to travel to a new planet - but Amy is wrongly unfrozen…
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Blame

Author: Simon Mayo

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 12+

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Blame

Author: Simon Mayo

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 12+

A tense and gripping thriller about a teenager determined to show the world that she's not to blame for the crimes of her parents.…
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Blood Red Road

Author: Moira Young

Interest level: 13-18

Reading age: 13+

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Blood Red Road

Author: Moira Young

Interest level: 13-18

Reading age: 13+

A violent, desperate and compelling story about family, love and determination, which enthrals through its bold, powerful language…
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Six Days

Author: Philip Webb

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 11+

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Six Days

Author: Philip Webb

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 11+

In grim, post-apocalyptic London, the search is on for the ‘artefact’, an undefined and mysterious relic from the dist…
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Gamerunner

Author: B. R. Collins

Interest level: 12+

Reading age: 12+

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Gamerunner

Author: B. R. Collins

Interest level: 12+

Reading age: 12+

Collins’ fourth teen novel is dark, intense and disturbingly prophetic
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Pale

Author: Chris Wooding

Interest level: 11+

Reading age: 8+

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Pale

Author: Chris Wooding

Interest level: 11+

Reading age: 8+

In an eerie futuristic world, society has figured out a way to bring people back from the dead...
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Seed

Author: Lisa Heathfield

Interest level: 13-18

Reading age: 13+

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Seed

Author: Lisa Heathfield

Interest level: 13-18

Reading age: 13+

Everything 15-year-old Pearl knows is Seed, the nature-loving community she’s lived in all her life: cut off from the outsid…
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Jet Black Heart

Author: Teresa Flavin

Interest level: 11+

Reading age: 11+

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Jet Black Heart

Author: Teresa Flavin

Interest level: 11+

Reading age: 11+

A young girl named Dory is pulled back into the past after finding an old note in a letterbox.
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Where the Rock Splits the Sky

Author: Philip Webb

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 7+

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Where the Rock Splits the Sky

Author: Philip Webb

Interest level: 13+

Reading age: 7+

This highly original and creative story cleverly combines dystopian sci-fi thriller with a western adventure. It has a strong hero…
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The Territory

Author: Sarah Govett

Interest level: 15+

Reading age: 13+

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The Territory

Author: Sarah Govett

Interest level: 15+

Reading age: 13+

This is a truly exceptional novel, exciting, gripping and intense, with relatable protagonists whose agonies become the reader&rsq…
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