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  • Win by Vera Nazarian

    Win by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Games are Forever! It’s one thing to Qualify and Compete… Now she must Win. Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, is among the lucky ones. She’s one of several million teenage refugees to escape the extinction-level asteroid barreling towards Earth and reach the ancient colony planet of Atlantis...
  • Divergent Series Four-Book Anniversary Collection by Veronica Roth

    Divergent Series Four-Book Anniversary Collection by Veronica Roth

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The internationally bestselling Divergent series that inspired major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley. These special 10th anniversary editions features exclusive content from Veronica Roth and a beautiful reimagined cover art from award-winning illustrator Victo Ngai. DIVERGENT For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice...
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  • Starfall: A Starstruck Novel by Brenda Hiatt

    Starfall: A Starstruck Novel by Brenda Hiatt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The electrifying conclusion to the Starstruck series! M, no longer a nerdy nobody, has finally been acclaimed Sovereign Emileia, ruler of the Martian colony Nuath. But at what cost? Without her soulmate Rigel, life seems pointless but she's expected to shake off her heartbreak and assume her responsibilities...
  • The Earth Dwellers by David Estes

    The Earth Dwellers by David Estes

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Earth Dwellers is the 4th book in BOTH The Dwellers Saga and The Country Saga. The author recommends that BOTH series are read in their entirety before reading this book (The Moon Dwellers, The Star Dwellers, The Sun Dwellers, Fire Country, Ice Country, Water & Storm Country)...
  • The Darkness We Crave by Katie May

    The Darkness We Crave by Katie May

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Most people don't think about where they're going to be when the world ends. On the beach drinking margaritas? In the arms of a lover? How about in a shit-ass resort run by your shit-ass parents? I have always lived my life as the perfect daughter. At seventeen, I had no other option than to follow my parents' strict regiment...
  • Love and Decay, Vol. Seven by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay, Vol. Seven by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Mexico hasn’t been the safe haven Reagan had hoped it would be. With new enemies waiting around every corner and a baby on the way, the group must fight harder than ever to stay alive and stay together. When circumstances beyond their control finally rip them apart, help comes from an unexpected place...
  • Battle Angel Alita, Volume 02: Tears of an Angel by Yukito Kishiro

    Battle Angel Alita, Volume 02: Tears of an Angel by Yukito Kishiro

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alita's mastery of the lethal Panzer Kunst technique may not help her in volume 2 of this popular series. Her worst enemy may be herself...
  • The Girl Who Dared to Stand by Bella Forrest

    The Girl Who Dared to Stand by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Liana Castell's journey continues in the breathtaking second book of the bestselling The Girl Who Dared to Think series.After stumbling upon an ancient, dusty office sealed away from the rest of the Tower, Liana makes a shocking discovery. Her first instinct is to flee - until she realizes all is not what it seems. The room has been hidden for a reason...
  • Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's time to risk it all! The thrilling conclusion to Janet Edward’s sensational debut YA sci-fi trilogy. Jarra never wanted to be a celebrity. All she ever wanted was to gain some respect for the people left on Earth: the unlucky few whose immune system prevents them from portalling to other planets...
  • Carrier by Anne Tibbets

    Carrier by Anne Tibbets

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Twenty-two -year-old Naya has spent nearly half her life as a sex slave in a government institution called The Line. When she’s kicked out after getting pregnant with twins, she’s got no way to earn a living and a horrifying choice to make: find someone to replace her, or have her babies taken in her stead. A doctor with a history of aiding ex-Line girls, Ric Bennett, wants to help...
  • Heading Home by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Heading Home by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when the one thing you’ve been praying for turns out to be the one thing that will destroy you and everything you love? After two years of living and adjusting to life after the bomb, Sarah and her son, John, have discovered that happiness can trump grief and loss...
  • Charged by G. P. Ching

    Charged by G. P. Ching

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Faith kept her plain. Science made her complicated. After her harrowing experience at the hands of Dr. Konrad and the Green Republic, the plain and simple life of Hemlock Hollow is a relief to Lydia Troyer. Her focus now is on helping Korwin to fit in and preparing for their upcoming marriage...
  • The Human by Keary Taylor

    The Human by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The city of New Eden is cleared, but it won’t stay that way forever. The Bane continue to advance in horrific ways that will wipe humanity from the face of the Earth. A storm is coming, one none of them could have dared imagine. When a group of outsiders come to the city, everyone is on edge. They have too many questions and not enough answers about where they are from or what they want...
  • Push by Eve Silver

    Push by Eve Silver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s either break the rules or die. Miki Jones lives her life by her own strict set of rules, to keep control, to keep the gray fog of grief at bay. Then she’s pulled into the Game, where she—and her team—will die unless she follows a new set of rules: those set by the mysterious Committee. But rules don’t mean answers, and without answers, it’s hard to trust. People are dying...
  • The Land of the Shadow by Lissa Bryan

    The Land of the Shadow by Lissa Bryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the highly anticipated stand-alone sequel to The End of All Things, Lissa Bryan returns readers to a world devastated by disease, and the breakdown of modern society. Two years after a horrific virus swept the globe, decimating the world’s population, Carly Daniels and her husband, Justin, have made a safe home in the isolated southern town of Colby...
  • Mirror's Edge by Scott Westerfeld

    Mirror's Edge by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The danger rises and the deception grows in the heart-stopping third book in the New York Times bestselling Impostors series!Frey's return to the city of her birth isn't going to be an easy one. She and her love Col must surge on new faces and bodies in order to infiltrate Shreve by dropping from the sky and landing undetected...
  • The Dwellers Saga Boxed Set by David Estes

    The Dwellers Saga Boxed Set by David Estes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One of "15 Series to Read if You Enjoyed The Hunger Games"--Buzzfeed.com Get the first THREE books of the Amazon bestselling The Dwellers Saga for more than 20% off the normal price! This boxed set includes The Moon Dwellers, The Star Dwellers, The Sun Dwellers, and a bonus Dwellers story; that's more than 1,100 pages of dystopian action and twists...
  • Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 32 ratings
    A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn’s a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth...
  • Earth Star by Janet Edwards

    Earth Star by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sequel to Earth Girl . 18-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military’s highest honours for her role in a daring rescue attempt, Jarra finds herself – and her Ape status – in the spotlight. Jarra is one of the unlucky few born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets...
  • The Child Thief by Bella Forrest

    The Child Thief by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a world where we have government of the rich by the rich for the rich… America in 2105 is beset with mass inequality, poverty and increasingly large numbers of the poor. This, combined with the breakdown of families and marriages has led to huge economic and societal burdens...
  • Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld

    Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Cities at war. Identities stolen or hidden away. A love built on lies. In the second book of the New York Times bestselling Impostors, nothing is certain and anything can be taken away.When the world sees Frey, they think they see her twin sister, Rafi. Frey was raised to be Rafi's double, and now she's taken on the role . . . without anyone else knowing...
  • Fire Country by David Estes

    Fire Country by David Estes

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In a changed world where the sky bleeds red, winter is hotter than hell and full of sandstorms, and summer's even hotter with raging fires that roam the desert-like country, the Heaters manage to survive, barely. Due to toxic air, life expectancies are so low the only way the tribe can survive is by forcing women to procreate when they turn sixteen and every three years thereafter...
  • Equinox by Lara Morgan

    Equinox by Lara Morgan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s Rosie’s seventeenth year and she’s starting her first year at Orbitcorp Academy, but it’s not going to be all parties and pilot training. Helios hasn’t forgotten her – and she certainly hasn’t forgotten them. Bent on revenge Rosie is still working in secret to try to take them down...
  • The Last Mission of the Living by Rhiannon Frater

    The Last Mission of the Living by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Humanity teeters on the brink of extinction...Vanguard Lindsay Rooney has faced the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge and lived to tell the tale, but she has also suffered horrible losses. Like millions of other civilians, she had hoped that The Bastion would recover after a team of modified soldiers eradicated the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge that infested their valley...
  • Starstruck by Brenda Hiatt

    Starstruck by Brenda Hiatt

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nerdy astronomy geek Marsha, M to her few friends, has never been anybody special. Orphaned as an infant and reluctantly raised by an overly-strict “aunt,” she’s not even sure who she is. M’s dream of someday escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana and making her mark in the world seems impossibly distant until hot new quarterback Rigel inexplicably befriends her...
  • Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle S. Prendergast

    Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle S. Prendergast

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind. Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall. His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting...
  • Impostors by Scott Westerfeld

    Impostors by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . but very few people have ever seen them together. This is because Frey is Rafi’s double, raised in the shadows of their rich father’s fortress. While Rafi has been taught to charm, Frey has been taught to kill. Frey only exists to protect her sister. There is no other part of her life...
  • Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh

    Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    EAST ASIA, 2199. After a great war, the East Pacific is in ruins. In brutal Neo Seoul, where status comes from success in combat, ex-gang member Lee Jaewon is a talented pilot rising in the academy's ranks. Abandoned as a child in the slums of Old Seoul by his rebel father, Jaewon desires only to escape his past...
  • The Survivors Book I: Summer by V.L. Dreyer

    The Survivors Book I: Summer by V.L. Dreyer

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The virus came from deep in Africa. By the time they had a name for the disease it had wiped out half the continent. Within a year, it had decimated our world. Our species is on the verge of extinction. Only a few of us have survived; those of us lucky enough to be born with a natural immunity to the plague...
  • In the End by Demitria Lunetta

    In the End by Demitria Lunetta

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She thought it was the end of the world... But it was only the beginning of the end. It's been three months since Amy escaped New Hope. Since she's seen Baby, or Kay, or Rice. And she's been surviving on her own, like she did before she was "rescued" and taken to what she thought was a safe haven...
  • Mothership by Martin Leicht, Isla Neal

    Mothership by Martin Leicht, Isla Neal

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Teen pregnancy is never easy—especially not when extraterrestrials are involved. The first in a new trilogy. Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved with sweet, gorgeous, dumb-as-a-brick Cole--and now she’s pregnant...
  • The Body Institute by Carol Riggs

    The Body Institute by Carol Riggs

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Are we our minds... or our bodies?Meet Morgan Dey, one of the top teen Reducers at The Body Institute.Thanks to cutting-edge technology, Morgan can temporarily take over another girl’s body, get her in shape, and then return to her own body—leaving her client slimmer, more toned, and feeling great. Only there are a few catches…For one, Morgan won’t remember what happens in her “Loaner” body...
  • Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

    Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Me? A leader? Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion—between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free...
  • Collide by Melissa West

    Collide by Melissa West

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Military legacy Ari Alexander has survived alien spies, WWIV, and a changing world order. But when the new leader of Earth uses Jackson—the only boy she's ever let herself care about—to get to her, Ari has no choice but to surrender. To free Jackson, she agrees to travel to the national bases to train others to fight. What she discovers is a land riddled with dying people...
  • Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury

    Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From Jessica Khoury, author of the Corpus Trilogy, comes a gripping story of royalty and rebellion, coursing across a faraway star system like a trail of jewels.Sixteen years ago, rebellion swept the galaxy known as the Belt of Jewels.Every member of the Leonov royal family was murdered--down to their youngest child, Princess Anya--making way for the Union government to seize power...
  • Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

    Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time...
  • The Life Below by Alexandra Monir

    The Life Below by Alexandra Monir

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As Naomi lifts off into space and away from a rapidly deteriorating Earth, she watches the world fade away, and along with it Leo, a Final Six contestant she grew close to during training. Leaving Earth behind is hard, but what’s ahead, on Europa, could be worse...
  • As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Taking place on the spaceship Godspeed before Amy Martin wakes up and Elder takes leadership, this novella describes life at the Hospital during Eldest's reign. Focusing primarily on background characters, readers will see fan-favorite characters Harley, Orion, Victria, and more. Selene is a singer on a spaceship that only values people who can provide important skills that enhance survival...
  • Sanctuary by Caryn Lix

    Sanctuary by Caryn Lix

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Alien meets Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station—only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures.Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything...
  • The Dead Will Rise First by Logan Kain

    The Dead Will Rise First by Logan Kain

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Christian rapture occurs and the now soulless bodies of Christians are left to terrorize all those left behind. TJ flees across Texas with his best friend, Ryan, and the remnants of his family, hoping for happiness, struggling just to survive. As they trek farther and farther South toward the coast, TJ and Ryan find comfort and love with one another...
  • The Eden Project: Humanity's Last Chance by D.P. Fitzsimons

    The Eden Project: Humanity's Last Chance by D.P. Fitzsimons

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There was only one rule: NEVER LEAVE THE DOME. Inside the dome, 117 tube-born kids lived free of contamination. Trained since birth, they were almost ready to launch their ships and leave the dying planet behind. They were humanity's final hope against extinction. Their mission would be to explore the farthest reaches of the galaxy seeking out a habitable world free of the C-1 virus...
  • Nova by Margaret Fortune

    Nova by Margaret Fortune

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *36:00:00* The clock activates so suddenly in my mind, my head involuntarily jerks a bit to the side. The fog vanishes, dissipated in an instant as though it never was. Memories come slotting into place, their edges sharp enough to leave furrows, and suddenly I know. I know exactly who I am.My name is Lia Johansen, and I was named for a prisoner of war...
  • Legacy by Ellery A. Kane

    Legacy by Ellery A. Kane

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you want to feel today? In 2041, the choice is yours. San Francisco is deserted, the Bay Bridge bombed, and the BART subway trains grounded. The Guardians, members of an elite and mysterious government-appointed military police force, are maintaining order at all costs—thanks to emotion-altering drugs like Emovere that suppress fear and anxiety...
  • Starbreak by Phoebe North

    Starbreak by Phoebe North

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Asherah has finally reached Zehava, the long-promised planet. There, Terra finds harsh conditions and a familiar foe—Aleksandra Wolff, leader of her ship’s rebel forces. Terra and Aleksandra first lock horns with each other . . . but soon realize they face a much more dangerous enemy in violent alien beasts—and alien hunters. Then Terra finally discovers Vadix...
  • Starglass by Phoebe North

    Starglass by Phoebe North

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Terra has never known anything but life aboard the Asherah , a city-within-a-spaceship that left Earth five hundred years ago in search of refuge. At sixteen, working a job that doesn't interest her, and living with a grieving father who only notices her when he's yelling, Terra is sure that there has to be more to life than what she's got...
  • Tracked by Jenny Martin

    Tracked by Jenny Martin

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On corporately controlled Castra, rally racing is a high-stakes game that seventeen-year-old Phoebe Van Zant knows all too well. Phee's legendary racer father disappeared mysteriously, but that hasn't stopped her from speeding headlong into trouble...
  • Cake Eater by Allyson Dahlin

    Cake Eater by Allyson Dahlin

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "With a love story for the ages, this vivid tale takes the history we know and recasts it into an exciting, technicolor, future world that challenges what we know here in the present, and how we know it...
  • Earth Girl by Janet Edwards

    Earth Girl by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A sensational YA science fiction debut from an exciting new British author. Jarra is stuck on Earth while the rest of humanity portals around the universe. But can she prove to the norms that she’s more than just an Earth Girl? 2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth...
  • Want by Cindy Pon

    Want by Cindy Pon

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    “Fresh, compelling—and timely.” —Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carve the Mark and the Divergent series“Vividly conjured…positively chilling.” — The New York Times“Spectacular.” — BuzzfeedSet in a near-future Taipei plagued by pollution, a group of teens risk everything to save their city in this thrilling novel from critically acclaimed author Cindy Pon...
  • Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson

    Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Andra wakes up, she’s drowning.Not only that, but she’s in a hot, dirty cave, it’s the year 3102, and everyone keeps calling her Goddess. When Andra went into a cryonic sleep for a trip across the galaxy, she expected to wake up in a hundred years, not a thousand. Worst of all, the rest of the colonists–including her family and friends–are dead...
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