Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

The Monarchs are the greatest fighters in the entire galaxy. Their popularity has motivated many to train with hopes of one day being able to claim the glowing crown atop the Monarch's head! For many, the thought of besting a Monarch and taking their crown is exhilarating. Some will make it and many others won't, but that is the risk...

The Monarchs are the greatest fighters in the entire galaxy. Their popularity has motivated many to train with hopes of one day being able to claim the glowing crown atop the Monarch's head. For many, the thought of besting a Monarch and taking their crown is exhilarating! Some will make it and many others won't, but that is the risk...

In a barren and ransacked backyard, a dog named Simon lives with his two best friends: a raccoon and a deer. The unlikely gang spend their days looting and waiting for the return of the hallowed garbage night — but week after week, the bins remain empty. When the gang are told of the 'other town', where humans are rumoured...

What if the person you loved was the one causing your pain? Noughts & Crosses meets This Mortal Coil in this gripping dystopia-romance set in a future where pain is transferable but someone always pays the price. Ever since a cataclysmic solar flare struck 150 years ago, Helical Disease has plagued the city of Alta Bay. Those infected endure excruciating...

A Wrinkle in Time meets Brave New World in this thought-provoking debut graphic novel about one girl's quest to save her family's livelihood and maybe existence itself. Chloe and her older sister make souls by hand in an empty old house in the countryside. When their supply of breth, the raw material needed to make souls, runs dry, the evil...

In the future-fantasy world of RWBY, Rooster Teeth's hit animated webseries, teens train to become warriors. Join the fight in this epic official, original novel from E.C. Myers and RWBY's head writers! A storm is coming... After their strange mission in the desert, Coco, Fox, Velvet, and Yatsuhashi are back at Shade Academy, doing some "extracurricular" work to track down...

Safety comes at a price. Change comes at a cost. The Key Corporation has kept Westfall safe from pandemics for the last fifty years. But that's not all they've done... After discovering the shocking truth behind the Key Corporation, Elodie and Aiden have managed to escape in search of New Dawn – the stronghold for the Eos resistance movement. There,...

It’s a year since Violet, Alice and Katie escaped from the dystopian world of The Gallows Dance–Nate’s been stuck in a coma ever since. Violet re-enters The Gallows Dance, determined to bring her brother home. After an argument that threatens to destroy their friendship, Alice stays behind. But when a rogue fan-fiction writer emerges online–writing dark new chapters set in the...

Cosplay ready, Violet and her friends are at Comic Con. They can’t wait to meet the fandom of the mega-movie, The Gallows Dance. What they’re not expecting is to be catapulted by freak accident into their favourite world—for real. Fuelled by love, guilt and fear, can the friends put the plot back on track and get out? The fate of...

After Beacon Academy fell, Coco, Fox, Velvet, and Yatsuhashi made a vow: No one else is getting left behind. It's been more than a year since Team CFVY saw their school destroyed by the creatures of Grimm, their friends felled in battle or scattered across the world of Remnant. Since then, they've been settling into life at Shade Academy in...

The unique friendship between an angel and a human is the only hope for the future, but can they remain friends? It's one thousand years since medical scientists brought a dead brain back to consciousness. When they discovered the reality of life after death, they laid claim to Heaven and set off a war against the angels. Now the Earth...

In a world far from our own, where enemies come in many forms, the ultimate battle for survival continues ... You will not want to miss the explosive final book in the epic CONTENDER trilogy from the bestselling author of the Summoner series. In Taran Matharu's The Champion, the explosive final book in the Contender trilogy, Cade and his friends...

Railey dreams of winning the drone races with her bio-robotic gecko friend, Atti. But when a bounty hunter crashes their biggest race yet, the pair are forced to flee to the feared Junker clans who mine the rubbish orbiting the Earth. Rescued by a couple of Junker kids, they discover a danger bigger than anything they’d imagined. City of Rust...

Penny Dreadful meets The Gilded Wolves in this breathtaking finale to the young adult historical fantasy Bones of Ruin trilogy! For years, the elite secret society called the Enlightenment Committee has waited for the apocalyptic force known as Hiva to destroy the world as it has so many times before. What the Committee didn’t know, however, was that Hiva wasn’t...

The Monarchs are the greatest fighters in the entire galaxy. Their popularity has motivated many to train with hopes of one day being able to claim the glowing crown atop the Monarch's head! For many, the thought of besting a Monarch and taking their crown is exhilarating. Some will make it, and many others won't, but that is the risk...

We fight crime across time... Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle Bibi-Imbele Ifie has The Gift, but she's never used it. Until now. On her twelfth birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre...

They call it Tsimmaon. Thirsty Ground. It's been thirteen decades since Tsimmaon left the Arid Planet in search of water, carrying only 1 percent of the human race in a bid to keep the species alive. There's no one thirstier on that space ark than the young recruits eager to earn their spot on the elite Hydroseeker League and find...

The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff.Where had he come from? Nobody knows.How was he made? Nobody knows. Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the...

A thrilling, apocalyptic horror debut from Braden Cawthon. Joel Walker wakes up to a world suddenly and frighteningly changed. In the wake of a massive power outage, an otherworldly siren begins to blare, changing all that listen to it for too long in frightening ways. Desperate to find his mother and little sister, Joel will have to survive in a...

In a future where humans are enhanced to ensure the survival of society, Akaego fights to prevent her power to grow plants from being weaponised by a corrupt regime. In a near future London where extreme weather has depleted plant life, sixteen-year-olds must surgically augment an ability to ensure humanity's survival. Having spent years training as a coder, Akaego moves...

Vow of Thieves is the thrilling sequel to Dance of Thieves, set in the same world as Mary E. Pearson's New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles. Kazi and Jase have survived, stronger and more in love than ever. Their new life now lies before them: the Ballengers will be outlaws no longer, Tor's Watch will be a kingdom, and Kazi and...

Together in a Broken World by Paul Michael Winters is a gripping tale where two boys fall in love in a deadly world. However, it's the secrets they keep that might kill them. Seventeen-year-old Zach was visiting his uncle in a small Montana town when a mysterious illness ripped through the world. Most died, but those who survived the Infection...

The final exciting chapter in the Callers saga delivers higher stakes and danger, as well as a powerful message of hope. Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan. The limits on Calling have been lifted, and Callers are now allowed to conjure up anything they want. But many on Elipsom still don't realise that everything they Call is being stolen from...

The world didn't end all at once but drip by drip... Manon Pawlak has just turned eighteen, a debutant at the start of the Virtue Season: a process that will result in a match with a suitable genetic mate. Her best friend, Agatha, has been decommissioned, forbidden to partake in the season and unite with the boy who has had...

A powerful dystopian thriller from a stunning new voice in YA, set in a world divided by race where life itself must be paid for if you want to survive... Six years ago, seventeen-year-old Mora survived the terrifying Skol invasion. They stole her land. They took her family. And now not even her life is her own. Skol culture revolves...

A fast-paced, time-twisting, magical adventure where every second counts. I really couldn't put The Magic Hour down. The concept is genius, the characters are unforgettable and the adventure is thrilling. A book I'll be recommending to everyone! - AF Steadman, best-selling author of Skandar and The Unicorn Thief. Eleven-year-old Ailsa Craig is always late! To everything—her own birth, school, and...

Luka Kane was executed in front of a jeering crowd, but before he died, he opened one pair of eyes to the truth: Chester ‘Chilly’ Beckett’s. Except Luka isn’t dead at all. A bold escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy’s world-ending plans draw to a climax... Explore the thrilling continuation of this gripping saga in The...

Book 1 in a dark, twisty and totally unputdownable YA series – perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner. 'A terrifying and sinister look into the future that will leave your jaw on the floor.' - KASS MORGAN, New York Times bestselling author of The 100 'Your next YA obsession.' - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY 'Fans of The...

In a world where social media is everything and followers equal money, Emerson is facing a prison sentence. Then, she’s offered a way out—a brand new gameshow for young felons that combines social media and reality TV. The first prize? Freedom—and a comfortable life for Emerson’s little brother. But if she loses? Incarceration for life. The games kick off on...

An explosive new romantasy YA, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Lore. Every Lunar Eclipse signifies the beginning of the Immortal Games: An epic set of games played by the Gods of Olympus, with randomly-selected humans as their Tokens. The stakes are high for the Gods who covet entertainment and glory above all else. For the Tokens, it's...

How can you find your soul mate, when you don’t have a soul? Iris lives in a world ruled by The Order. Inspectors police the population by keeping careful watch over people’s souls. If they shine their lanterns on you, your soul is projected for the world to see ... and judge. But Iris has a deadly secret ... she...

A captivating romantasy to make your heart race... Ruby and Oliver return in the sensational sequel to The Girl With No Soul, where they discover the sixth sense of prophecy: an advanced ability said to be possessed only by those who have witnessed the darkness of the soul first-hand... The old Order has been dismantled and a new leadership born...

Coriolanus Snow has one shot at glory as a mentor in the tenth annual Hunger Games. He plans to outcharm, outwit, and outmanoeuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him: he has been given the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now intertwined – every choice Coriolanus...

A beautiful foiled, hardback journal to coincide with the release of the new novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its...

Good news, we all have a soulmate somewhere. Bad news, it’s caused by a deadly virus. If you feel pain, your KinTwin does too. If you die, they die too. Control freak Zoe is determined to stay alive. And single. She carries a survival kit for every eventuality except for when her phone lights up with a blood match to...

Since the world fell sick with fantastical illnesses, sisters Payton and Ani have grown up in a hospital. When Ani stumbles upon an imprisoned boy who turns everything he touches to gold, her world is turned upside down. The sisters find themselves outside the hospital for the first time, a dark mystery unravelling around them... Once Upon a Fever by...

Humanoid Echo is a lonely teenage boy in a post-apocalyptic city of robots. Then, a space-pod crashes from the sky with a girl on board. Pandora. Can they find answers in their ended world – and new beginnings in each other? My Love Life and the Apocalypse by Melissa Welliver is a captivating tale of survival, companionship, and searching for...

Today is the day Jo Monarch has been wishing on the moon about her entire life. It's the day of the Lineup, when she could be selected to leave her life in the Ashes behind. The day she could move across the mountains to a glittering, rich future. Once Jo is plucked from the Lineup, the real test begins. She...

When Lola’s selected to test the VR game Better Than Life at her posh new boarding school, she’s soon skipping lessons to play. All she has to do to live her perfect VR life is keep her secrets buried. But this is a game she can’t win ...

Step into the world of HIVE in this thrilling, high-stakes virtual reality adventure — perfect for younger fans of Ready Player One! Welcome to HIVE, the world's most popular virtual reality simulator. Everyone's addicted to it—except Kara Tilden. She has no time for games since her mum disappeared, and Kara believes HIVE had something to do with it. But when...

Lydia has been creating her AI, Henry, for years—since before her little brother died in the accident that haunts her nightmares; since before her dad walked out, leaving her and Mum painfully alone; since before her best friend turned into her worst enemy. Now, Henry is strong, clever, loving, and scarily capable: Lydia’s built herself the perfect boyfriend in a...

Seventeen-year-old Bear lives in the walled town of Calleston—a place of stark divide between the rich and poor. Living down in Cobbleside, Bear is painfully conscious of the inequalities between him and the residents of Roofside. When the town's annual Field Day—an event during which those who've recently come of age test their Sinsen growing capacities—shows Bear to have unprecedented...

Every ten years in Wil’s home town of Lennon, California, one person is brought back to life for thirty days. Wil brings back her ex-best friend Annie LeBlanc. Wil’s ecstatic – who cares that Annie stopped speaking to her before she died? Discovering a loophole that means Annie can stay alive, Wil has one summer to make things work. But...

Khadija’s sister, Talia, has been kidnapped and stolen into the magical realm of Al-Ghaib. Khadija embarks on a quest to rescue her. But Al-Ghaib, where the sky is emerald green, is a place of trickery: she will have to have all her wits about her if she’s to outfox her sister’s captor ...

Kitt has completed his financier training and returns to Lundain. The street urchin has transformed into a polished young man whose touch turns everything to gold. Os, meanwhile, has flunked his methic exams—but a unique talent brings him to the attention of the financier’s Guild Master, who enlists him to develop a feeling that will grant Midas-fingers to every financier....

_______________ 'Mad Max for the eco-generation' - Love Reading 4 Kids 'The all-action plot and the hinted-at romantic triangle will keep the reader's interest to the end' - Irish Examiner _______________ When oxygen levels plunge in a treeless world, a state lottery decides which lucky few will live inside the Pod. Everyone else will slowly suffocate. Years after the Switch,...

JOIN THE TEAM. SAVE THE WORLD. Transcendent: Forgotten Earth follows the story of transcendent agents and twin geniuses Jacob and Kira, who have been defeated as the world plunges into climate change oblivion. Their last hope lies in confronting the villainous billionaire Nosfer within the Oracle virtual reality universe that ensnares the population. However, inside this universe, they must play...

The journey winds through me, twisted and turned, like a difficult second spine… Having escaped their city, Juniper Green and her brother Bear have settled in Ennerdale with their dad and his family. Every day the Wild introduces them to a new wonder, but Juniper can’t stop worrying about her grandmother and best friend left behind. When she hears news...

After surviving a brutal attack by Mayor Highshine, Scrap, Paige and Gnat head out in search of a rocket ship they hope can get them off-world. Journeying deeper into the wild they discover Mooch, a nomadic wandering robot town. But as Scrap and his friends push on, they make a discovery that will rock them to the core... I'm not...

SING FOR YOUR LIFE! Welcome to the New Alliance – a reimagined world after a war and a flood. Taryn Beck and her family don’t have much, and her younger brother needs vital medication to survive. Medication they can’t access or afford. Taryn secretly enters Network G’s reality show: Starmaker, the most watched TV show in the world.The rules are simple; young women from all over...

What would happen if the US elected a 17 year old as President? Find out in this sizzling, genre-busting YA political thriller from bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil.When 17 year old Benton Young uploads a video daring the world to elect him as US President, the video goes viral. Young people have lost all faith in...

An astonishing debut novel about friendship, trust and survival, perfect for fans of Skellig. Sunny waited until her mother was asleep before she went back for the monster . . . All her life, Sunny has known three things about the creatures that prowl the seas off her tiny coastal town. They are dangerous. They are violent. They are monsters....

Big Brother is watching you.Under the all-seeing eye of Big Brother, Winston Smith spends his days in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting the past to serve a government that erases and reshapes reality. But beneath his obedient surface, a flicker of rebellion smolders.Despite constant surveillance and the ever-present threat of repression, he starts to inwardly question the Party. A note...

In a dystopian world ruled by pharmaceutical companies, an orphan named Beck sets off to find her missing mentor following the only lead she has: unlicensed cage fights! Fifteen years after a global civil war brought on by health, economic, and ecological crises, the world has settled into a tenuous peace under a regimented civilisation. The majority of the populace...

A Hand Maid’s Tale meets How I Live Now in this page-turning dystopian YA which the author has described as a ‘love letter to her daughter’. In a world where bees are at risk of extinction, one girl fights for her own survival. Imagine a world where honeybees have died out. It’s a patriarchal world where famines are rife. It’s...

Final Destination meets House of Hollow in this haunting and lyrical speculative horror about a group of girls doing Death's bidding in exchange for preserving their own lives. When a life is saved... Death must be paid. Roslyn Volk isn't herself any more. It's been a year since her older sister, Adeline, died under suspicious circumstances, and she's still shackled...

A gorgeous debut YA about friendship, grief and new beginnings set in near-future San Francisco in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake and on the cusp of the first human mission to Mars. Celeste Muldoon is alone when the Big One finally hits San Francisco, because, for the first time ever, her best friend, Nicky, stood her up after school....

To survive, trust no one. An explosive dystopian YA novel perfect for fans of The Last of Us and All That's Left in the World. A devastating fungal pandemic has wiped out most of society. Dayna and Pax live in an isolated house in the countryside, learning to survive in the world left behind. But when their father gets sick,...

Welcome to Blood Island, where the struggle for survival against the bloodthirsty undead is captured on camera for entertainment. 'Welcome back, dystopia. Welliver delivers a razor-sharp assault on life, death and media itself. To The Death doesn't just raise the stakes, it lights them on fire.' - Bill Wood 'Melissa Welliver is redefining dystopia for a whole new generation. To...

The first in a new trilogy set in the world of the groundbreaking Chaos Walking series, which has sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide.·“In a world full of Noise, the CHAOS WALKING trilogy delivered a razor-sharp take on humanity and morality even more relevant now than when it was first published.” Neal ShustermanNow, almost twenty years on, Patrick Ness makes...

Introducing the explosive first book in the Torch Trilogy - the hottest release of the decade! LONGLISTED BRANFORD BOASE AWARD 2025 NOMINATED CARNEGIE MEDAL 2025 'Hard-hitting, imaginative, wide-ranging.' GUARDIAN 'A superb opening instalment of a dystopian YA trilogy.' THE TIMES Songlight feels like the start of something big.' SFX They are hunting those who shine... Don't be deceived by Northaven's...

This “heartbreaking and heartfelt” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) star-crossed love story follows two teens in a starkly unequal future world who are struggling to find their places. Sixteen-year-old Rumi Sabzwari has spent his entire life behind the armoured walls of St. Iago, which protect citizens of the Union of Upper Cities from the outside world’s environmental devastation. But when rebels...

Discover the future awaiting Connor, Risa, and Lev after the events of the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology series by Neal Shusterman in this short story collection. Connor Lassiter’s fight to bring down Proactive Citizenry and find a suitable alternative to unwinding concluded in UnDivided. Now, Connor, Risa, and Lev are free to live in a peaceful future—or are...

NOW A NO.1 FILM ON NETFLIX The first book in Scott Westerfeld's international bestselling Uglies series - over six million copies of the series have been sold worldwide! In Tally Youngblood’s world, looks matter. At sixteen, everyone undergoes a transformation from "Ugly" to "Pretty" and is catapulted into a high-tech paradise where the only thing that matters is having a...

The end is coming. There's no escape...or is there? The first in a compelling YA dystopian series for anyone who's ever felt like their life—their world—is on the brink of destruction. Like most high school seniors, Alexandra Lucas is caught between living in the moment and an unknown future. Her anxiety disorder doesn't make that any easier. But she's coping—until...

Friend by day. Traitor by night. The second book in the dark, twisting thriller trilogy about a teen assassin’s attempt to live a normal life. Don't miss the epic conclusion to the series, coming May 2024. 'A dark, enthralling thriller' The Guardian Teen assassin Isabel Ryans now works for Comma, and she’s good at it: the Moth is the guild’s...

Age range 8 to 13In the scorching summer of 2033, Gilbert Black is accused of being a firebug, just like his mother was thirteen years previously. That night a fire starts on his family's farm. A fire with a tunnel in the centre of it. And that's when things start to get really weird.Pulled repeatedly back and forth through time,...

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionEnter the world of Muqadas, where the climb to the top of this vertically stacked city—away from disease-ridden waters of the lower levels—is paved with betrayal, secrets, and rebellion in this debut graphic novel from author Son M. and artist Robin Yao.Lifelong friends Basem, Mustafa, and Aarfah have carved out a place for themselves...

An amusing look at the alternative paths that Australian history might have taken in Australia's Gold Rush.The What If histories of Australia imagines a very different history of Australia, where the unexpected happens in unexpected ways. Starting by defining the real histories, the book then looks at possible paths of different settlements that history could have taken. Gold Fever is what...

With the intensity of The Handmaid's Tale, the drama of Divergent and the political intrigue of The Darkest Minds series, this is a captivating, fast-paced thriller set in a dystopian world not so different from our own. Sixteen-year-old Ally is one of 400 homeless young people who have been promised new and better lives in exchange for their votes.The once...

Critically acclaimed author Shanthi Sekaran makes her middle grade debut with this timely and stunning novel in which a young boy and his friends must rescue his grandmother from a relocation camp after their country’s descent into xenophobia. Perfect for fans of The Night Diary and Front Desk.Before his grandmother moved from India to the island of Mariposa, Muki Krishnan’s life was good....

The hilarious, moving and adventure-packed new novel for readers of 9 and up from Ross Welford, the bestselling and Costa-shortlisted author of Time Travelling with a Hamster The year is 2425. Centuries after a catastrophic meteor collision, nature has retaken the earth. In a small town in what was once England, young Ocean Mooney and the monkey-owning Duke Smiff have...

'A marvellously exciting - and thought-provoking - time-travelling murder mystery. Smart, funny, moving, atmospheric - I laughed a lot, cried once, could not stop reading, and now actually believe in time travel' Simon Mason'This book is equal parts tension, explosive drama, and heart. I loved it' Ben OliverMillie has seven days to save Annie Driscoll from a terrible fate. Millie...

Welcome to the world of Jack Wenland, future first officer of the interplanetary and interdimensional Time Guardian Bureau. In this exciting trilogy, Jack is sent back in time from our future to the end of the nineteenth century, where he lands in The Marysburgh Vortex, a mysterious location known for swallowing up ships and sailors on the Great Lakes. But...

The new full-colour graphic novel in the spin-off series from Max Brallier’s NYT bestselling The Last Kids on Earth, now with over 10 million copies in print worldwide and an Emmy Award-winning Netflix Original show. The series that proves that the zombie apocalypse is better with friends. Featuring new Last Kids on Earth stories by Max Brallier and full-colour artwork...

I dream about the world my parents described, where music and song are allowed. I was happiest when they sang with me. But now they are gone. And my brother has no voice.Who will sing with me now?When twelve-year-old Garlan and his mute brother Cadell are forced to run from their abusive guardians, they plan to find the land beyond...

Return to the world of the Callers in this exciting middle-grade fantasy series that explores the amazing power of summoning objects into being and the ominous consequences of doing so. Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan. The shocking truth about Calling has been revealed: the magical ability to conjure something out of thin air actually steals resources from another place....

Age range 8+Twelve-year-old twins Hugo and Kitty have an ultra-rare condition called heterochromia, which bestows them with different coloured eyes: one hazel, the other blue. On holiday in rural Australia, the twins befriend their solitary neighbour, Lucas, who has developed a powerful solar device he calls the Helios Book.Lucas promises it will revolutionise global energy use. In a desperate attempt...

'A wonderful time-travelling adventure with more twists and turns than the hands of a clock on a helter-skelter. Alex and Jasper are a fantastic dynamic duo, and the book has genuine friendship and warmth at the heart of a timey-wimey mystery. I loved it.'- L.D. Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel AgencyHave you ever thought what it might be like...