Teen Fantasy Adventures and Dystopias

Try these books if you're looking for:

• teen fiction
• fantasy adventure
• dystopia

These Broken Stars 
By Amie Kaufman
YA F Kaufman Starboun #1
The massive luxury spaceliner Icarus has plummeted into the nearest planet. Lilac and Tarver survived and they seem to be alone. With only each other to rely on, they must work together to journey across the the deserted world to seek help.

Rot and Ruin 
By Jonathan Maberry
YA MABERRY Benny #1
Zombies are a very real threat in Benny Imura’s post-apocalypic America. If a teenager doesn’t find a job by the age of 15, their food rations are cut in half. Begrudginly Benny ends up as a zombie hunter apprentice for his brother Tom. That’s when the adventure becomes fast paced and Benny learns that things are not always what they seem.

The Outcasts 
By John Flanagan
YA FLANAGAN Brotherb #1
The outcasts Hal and Stig don’t fit the norm in Skandian society but that does not mean they don’t have the skills and courage they will need for what they are about to face. Are Hal, Stig and the others in their Brotherband up to the adventurous challenges against the other Bands? Will they even survive?

Character-Driven Tales on Audio

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• audiobooks
• character-driven thrillers
• crime fiction
• fiction or non-fiction

My Story 
By Elizabeth Smart
BIO SMART
Ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart’s powerful memoir reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime.

Atonement 
By Ian McEwan
F MCEWAN
In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.

White Cat 
By Holly Black
YA F BLACK Curse #1
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.

A Child Called “It” 
By David Pelzer
BIO PELZER
Dave Pelzer’s story is that of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. Dave had to learn how to play his mother’s abusive games in order to survive, as his mother no longer considered him a son but a slave, no longer a boy but an “it.”

I Am Not A Serial Killer 
By Dan Wells
YA F WELLS John Cle #1
Having grown up helping his mom at the family mortuary, dead bodies are no big deal to John. He likes them, actually—they don’t ask for the empathy he’s not able to offer. Perhaps that’s what gives him the clarity to recognize that something is frighteningly different about the freshest body on the slab.

Historical Adventure Books

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• adventure fiction
• historical fiction

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud 
By Julie Navarro
F NAVARRO
A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and the discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins of the relic. The characters and action are similar to Dan brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

The Confessor 
By Daniel Silva
F SILVA
In the wake of a Munich writer’s assassination, Mossad agent Gabriel Allon and Vatican priest Pietro embark on a dangerous journey that reveal long-buried secrets affecting the fates of millions of people. The historical detail will keep readers enthralled.

Dystopian Fiction

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• dystopian fiction
• books that make you think about life and choices
• books with action and suspense
• no romance
• books that read like Hunger Games, Ender's Game, Maze Runner

The Diary of Pelly D
By L.J. Adlington
YA F ADLINGTO
When Toni V., a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.

The Destiny of Linus Hoppe
By Anne-Laure Bondoux
YA F BONDOUX
In a utopian world, Linus is approaching the test to determine which Realm he will live in. But Linus opts to reject the accepted way of life to try and change his destiny.

Taken 
By Erin Bowman
YA F BOWMAN
In the isolated town of Claysoot, every male is mysteriously “heisted” on his eighteenth birthday, and seventeen-year-old Gray Weathersby is determined to figure out why.

Girl in the Arena 
By Lise Haines
YA F HAINES
Eighteen-year-old Lyn, known as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother’s path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the man who killed her stepfather may be to face him in the arena.

Shatter Me 
By Tahereh Mafi
YA F MAFI
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a postapocalyptic dictatorship. But Adam, the only person to ever show her affection, offers hope of a better world.

Contemporary Mystery & Suspense Books

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• contemporary fiction (set in contemporary settings)
• mystery novels
• suspense novels
• horror novels
• crime novels

Defending Jacob 
By William Landay
MYST LANDAY
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next. His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.

NOS4A2 
By Joe Hill
F HILL
When Charles Talent Manx, an unstoppable monster who transforms children into his own terrifying likeness, kidnaps her son, Victoria McQueen, the only person to ever escape his unmitigated evil, must engage in a life-and-death battle of wills to get her son back.

The English Girl 
By Daniel Silva
F SILVA
The wayward son of Israeli intelligence, Allon is plunged into a high stakes game of murder, espionage, and corruption after a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, which threatens to destroy a prime minister's career.