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  • Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 58 ratings
    A New York Times BestsellerBrace yourself for GEMINA—the highly anticipated sequel to the book critics called “out-of-this-world awesome”—featuring journal illustrations by bestselling author Marie Lu! Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed...
  • Vortex by S.J. Kincaid

    Vortex by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The impossible was just the beginning. Now in their second year as superhuman government weapons-in-training at the Pentagonal Spire, Tom Raines and his friends are mid-level cadets in the elite combat corps known as the Intrasolar Forces. But as training intensifies and a moment arrives that could make or break his entire career, Tom’s loyalties are again put to the test...
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  • Cured by Bethany Wiggins

    Cured by Bethany Wiggins

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Now that Fiona Tarsis and her twin brother, Jonah, are no longer beasts, they set out to find their mother, with the help of Bowen and a former neighbor, Jacqui. Heading for a safe settlement rumored to be in Wyoming, they plan to spread the cure along the way--until they are attacked by raiders...
  • The Girl Who Dared to Think by Bella Forrest

    The Girl Who Dared to Think by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    How do you fight an enemy when they're inside your mind? A gargantuan glass-walled tower looms over a deadly wilderness. They say it's all that's left. The Tower's survival is humanity's survival, and each must serve it faithfully... Twenty-year-old Liana Castell must be careful what she thinks...
  • Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin

    Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    It’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa...
  • The Returning by Rachelle Dekker

    The Returning by Rachelle Dekker

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Twenty years have passed since Carrington and Remko Brant's baby, Elise, was kidnapped and they were forced to leave her captive in the Authority City. Though they fled with the Seers far from Authority reach, they've never given up hope of rescuing their daughter from the man who betrayed them...
  • Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne

    Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The stunningly fierce conclusion to Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14 trilogy. The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp. Dean and Alex are cautiously starting to hope that a happy ending might be possible. But for Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, things have gone from bad to worse...
  • Recon by Tarah Benner

    Recon by Tarah Benner

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Eli knows corruption runs deep within the compound. It's a reality he's forced to confront every year on Bid Day. But when your job is to go out into the radiation-soaked Fringe so that others can live in peace, you don’t ask too many questions. For Harper, the bid system works just fine...
  • Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne

    Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Trapped in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, including a monster hailstorm and terrifying chemical weapons spill, brothers Dean and Alex learned how to survive and worked together with twelve other kids to build a refuge from the chaos. But then strangers appeared, destroying their fragile peace, and bringing both fresh disaster and a glimmer of hope...
  • The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker

    The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Not to be Chosen would yield a cruel fate of my own making.” Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she’d spent a lifetime preparing for—her Choosing ceremony—would end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she’ll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society...
  • Prized by Caragh M. O'Brien

    Prized by Caragh M. O'Brien

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Striking out into the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone survives, only to be captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where women rule the men who drastically outnumber them, and a kiss is a crime...
  • Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan

    Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the thrilling conclusion to the Sky Chasers series Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive on-board the New Horizon—and take down their enemies before it's too late. Waverly and the other members of the Empyrean have scattered, and their home ship has been destroyed...
  • The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

    The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The final book in Katharine McGee's epic New York Times bestselling Thousandth Floor series When you have everything, you have everything to lose. Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams. Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help—from the person she’s spent all year trying to forget...
  • Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau

    Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In the series debut The Testing , sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization...
  • Irrelevant by Sarah Addison-Fox

    Irrelevant by Sarah Addison-Fox

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mallory's been hiding who she is for 18 years...But now her terrible secret has been exposed.Branded Irrelevant, Mallory is cut off from everything she knows. Irrelevants are criminals, banished to live in the old city. But in the wasteland between the new city and the old, she stumbles on Cristan.He's bitter, paranoid, and possibly crazy...He may also be right about everything...
  • In the Age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin

    In the Age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All These Things I’ve Done , the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen year old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya...
  • Double Digit by Annabel Monaghan

    Double Digit by Annabel Monaghan

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Digit and John are back for a second book and in way over their heads. To say eighteen-year-old Farrah Higgins—or Digit—is good at math is a laughable understatement. She’s been cracking codes since childhood, and is finally at home with “her people” at MIT in Cambridge...
  • Spark by Amy Kathleen Ryan

    Spark by Amy Kathleen Ryan

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Waverly and Kieran are finally reunited on the Empyrean. Kieran has led the boys safely up to this point, and now that the girls are back, their mission seems slightly less impossible: to chase down the New Horizon, and save their parents from the enemy ship. But nothing is truly as it seems…Kieran’s leadership methods have raised Seth’s hackles— and Waverly’s suspicions...
  • Because It Is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin

    Because It Is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in.”- Michael Corleone, The Godfather Freed from jail, Anya hopes that things will get back to normal. But life on the outside is even more dangerous than life behind bars. Some of her gangland family want revenge for the crime for which she has done time: the shooting of her uncle...
  • In a Handful of Dust by Mindy McGinnis

    In a Handful of Dust by Mindy McGinnis

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The only thing bigger than the world is fear. Lucy’s life by the pond has always been full. She has water and friends, laughter and the love of her adoptive mother, Lynn, who has made sure that Lucy’s childhood was very different from her own. Yet it seems Lucy’s future is settled already—a house, a man, children, and a water source—and anything beyond their life by the pond is beyond reach...
  • Ashfall by Mike Mullin

    Ashfall by Mike Mullin

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Under the bubbling hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano. Most people don't know it's there. The caldera is so large that it can only be seen from a plane or satellite. It just could be overdue for an eruption, which would change the landscape and climate of our planet...
  • Nil by Lynne Matson

    Nil by Lynne Matson

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape, or you die. Seventeen-year-old Charley doesn’t know the rules. She doesn’t even know where she is. The last thing she remembers is blacking out, and when she wakes up, she’s lying naked in an empty rock field...
  • A Spark Unseen by Sharon Cameron

    A Spark Unseen by Sharon Cameron

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The thrilling sequel to Sharon Cameron's blockbuster gothic steampunk romance, THE DARK UNWINDING, will captivate readers anew with mystery and intrigue aplenty. When Katharine Tulman wakes in the middle of the night and accidentally foils a kidnapping attempt on her uncle, she realizes Stranwyne Keep is no longer safe for Uncle Tully and his genius inventions...
  • The Unhappening of Genesis Lee by Shallee McArthur

    The Unhappening of Genesis Lee by Shallee McArthur

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Genesis Lee has never forgotten anything. As one of the Mementi—a small group of genetically-enhanced humans—Gena remembers everything with the help of her Link bracelets, which preserve memories perfectly. But Links can be stolen, and six people have already lost their lives to a memory thief, including Gena’s best friend. Anyone could be next...
  • Free to Fall by Lauren Miller

    Free to Fall by Lauren Miller

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    What if there was an app that told you what song to listen to, what coffee to order, who to date, even what to do with your life—an app that could ensure your complete and utter happiness? What if you never had to fail or make a wrong choice?What if you never had to fall? Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the...
  • The Program by Suzanne Young

    The Program by Suzanne Young

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 35 ratings
    In Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive...
  • Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

    Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water. Lynn knows every threat to her pond: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and, most importantly, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty, or doesn't leave at all. Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest...
  • Replication: The Jason Experiment by Jill Williamson

    Replication: The Jason Experiment by Jill Williamson

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What if everything you knew was a lie? Martyr---otherwise known as Jason 3:3---is one of hundreds of clones kept in a remote facility called Jason Farms. Told that he has been created to save humanity, Martyr has just one wish before he is scheduled to 'expire' in less than a month. To see the sky...
  • Doomed by Tracy Deebs

    Doomed by Tracy Deebs

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Beat the game. Save the world. Pandora's an average teen, glued to her cell phone and laptop, until the day her long-lost father sends her a link to a mysterious site featuring photos of her as a child. Curious, Pandora enters the site, unwittingly unleashing a global computer virus that plunges the whole world into panic: suddenly, there's no Internet. No cell phones...
  • Prototype by M.D. Waters

    Prototype by M.D. Waters

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The stunning debut that began with Archetype— and has readers buzzing—concludes in Prototype, when a woman’s dual pasts lock onto a collision course, threatening her present and future. Emma looks forward to the day when she can let go of her past—both of them...
  • XBestia by Melissa Conway

    XBestia by Melissa Conway

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the future, bioengineered animals provide organs for human transplantation. Grafts of animal skin have replaced tattoos in popularity, which gives rise to a unique new demographic: xenofreaks...
  • Resistance by Jenna Black

    Resistance by Jenna Black

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Resistance is the second installment in acclaimed author Jenna Black’s YA SF romance series. Nate Hayes is a Replica. The real Nate was viciously murdered, but thanks to Paxco’s groundbreaking human replication technology, a duplicate was created that holds all of the personality and the memories of the original. Or...almost all...
  • While We Run by Karen Healey

    While We Run by Karen Healey

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Abdi Taalib thought he was moving to Australia for a music scholarship. But after meeting the beautiful and brazen Tegan Oglietti, his world was turned upside down. Tegan's no ordinary girl - she died in 2027, only to be frozen and brought back to life in Abdi's time, 100 years later...
  • Pawn by Aimee Carter

    Pawn by Aimee Carter

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 20 ratings
    YOU CAN BE A VII. IF YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING. For Kitty Doe, it seems like an easy choice. She can either spend her life as a III in misery, looked down upon by the higher ranks and forced to leave the people she loves, or she can become a VII and join the most powerful family in the country...
  • Divided by Elsie Chapman

    Divided by Elsie Chapman

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 12 ratings
    The hunter becomes the hunted. . . . West Grayer is done killing. She defeated her Alternate, a twin raised by another family, and proved she’s worthy of a future. She’s ready to move on with her life. The Board has other plans. They want her to kill one last time, and offer her a deal worth killing for...
  • Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne

    Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner...
  • The Uprising by Lisa M. Stasse

    The Uprising by Lisa M. Stasse

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In this dystopian sequel to The Forsaken, Alenna has survived the brutality of life on the wheel—and now she’s going back for more. Alenna escaped. It was expected that she would die on the wheel, the island where would-be criminals are sent as directed by the UNA—the totalitarian supercountry that was once the United States, Mexico, and Canada...
  • Truth by Julia Karr

    Truth by Julia Karr

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An exciting dystopian thriller, and sequel to XVI Nina Oberon's life has changed enormously in the last few months. When her mother was killed, Nina discovered the truth about her father, the leader of the Resistance. And now she sports the same Governing Council–ordered tattoo of XVI on her wrist that all sixteen-year-old girls have...
  • Oasis by Dima Zales

    Oasis by Dima Zales

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new dystopian/post-apocalyptic series from a New York Times bestselling author My name is Theo, and I'm a resident of Oasis, the last habitable area on Earth. It's meant to be a paradise, a place where we are all content. Vulgarity, violence, insanity, and other ills are but a distant memory, and even death no longer plagues us. I was once content too, but now I'm different...
  • Tankborn by Karen Sandler

    Tankborn by Karen Sandler

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Best friends Kayla and Mishalla know they will be separated for their Assignments. They are GENs, Genetically Engineered Non-humans, and in their strict caste system, GENs are at the bottom rung of society. GENs are gestated in a tank and sent to work as slaves as soon as they reach age fifteen...
  • The Leveller by Julia Durango

    The Leveller by Julia Durango

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Nixy Bauer is a self-made Leveller. Her job? Dragging kids out of virtual reality and back to their parents in the real world. It’s normally easy cash, but Nixy’s latest mission is fraught with real danger, intrigue, and romance.Nixy Bauer is used to her classmates being very, very unhappy to see her. After all, she’s a bounty hunter in a virtual reality gaming world...
  • All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin

    All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine...
  • A Girl Called Fearless by Catherine Linka

    A Girl Called Fearless by Catherine Linka

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    An Indie Next Pick! Avie Reveare has the normal life of a privileged teen growing up in L.A., at least as normal as any girl’s life is these days. After a synthetic hormone in beef killed fifty million American women ten years ago, only young girls, old women, men, and boys are left to pick up the pieces...
  • Meritropolis by Joel Ohman

    Meritropolis by Joel Ohman

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Meritropolis everyone is assigned a numerical Score that decides their worth to society and whether they live or die. After a young boy is killed because of a low Score, his brother plots to take down the System. “ The Hunger Games meets The Village with a young Jack Reacher as a protagonist...
  • Day 21 by Kass Morgan

    Day 21 by Kass Morgan

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now. It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries...or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, Wells attempts to keep the group together. Clarke strikes out for Mount Weather, in search of other Colonists, while Bellamy is determined to rescue his sister, no matter the cost...
  • Perfected by Kate Jarvik Birch

    Perfected by Kate Jarvik Birch

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I was bred to be the perfect pet. I was bred for my beauty and grace, to be a showpiece, an ornament to sit upon the couch, to sing, to dance, to play the piano and paint. I was bred to willingly put my owner's happiness before my own. Until Penn. The handsome and rebellious son of the congressman who owns me, he's the only person who's seen past my perfect exterior to the girl underneath...
  • The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe

    The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Read a Sneak Peek below! It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they’re old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in. And then you're dead...
  • Otherworld by Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller

    Otherworld by Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    The company says Otherworld is amazing — like nothing you’ve ever seen before. They say it’s addictive — that you’ll want to stay forever. They promise Otherworld will make all your dreams come true.Simon thought Otherworld was a game. Turns out he knew nothing. Otherworld is the next phase of reality. It’s everything you’ve ever wanted.And it’s about to change humanity forever...
  • The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson

    The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Once there were three. Three friends who loved each other—Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without her. Decades passed, and then centuries...
  • Arena by Holly Jennings

    Arena by Holly Jennings

    Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A fast-paced and gripping near-future science fiction debut about the gritty world of competitive gaming...   Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. She’s died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier...   The RAGE tournaments—the Virtual Gaming League’s elite competition where the best gamers in the world compete in a no-holds-barred fight to the digital death...
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