18 books like The Maze Runner

What to read after The Maze Runner — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs · 2011 · ★ 3.9 · 387p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he… Shares: Young Adult, Science Fiction

Among the enemy Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2005 · ★ 4.2 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Moderate this book is part of the shadow children sequel. a few shadow children decide to work for the population police and save all the shadow children they can. Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

The Complication Suzanne Young · 2018 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Tatum and Weston seek revenge against The Program in this heart-pounding final installment in Suzanne Young’s New York Times bestselling Program series—now with a reimagined look.Every cure has a cost.Tatum Masterson learned this after years of being monitored by The Program. She witnessed it when her boyfriend, Weston, came back changed, erased. The Adjustment came into Tatum’s life just when… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

The Program Suzanne Young · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In this “gripping tale for lovers of dystopian romance” (Kirkus Reviews), 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;… Shares: Social Themes, Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Divergent Veronica Roth · 2010 · ★ 4.4 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Moderate ‘Divergent’ is the first in a trilogy of dystopian, YA novels by Veronica Roth. The book is written from Beatrice Prior’s (Tris), point of view and is written in short chapters making it easy to put down and pick up again. The story is fast paced with full on action throughout. It contains elements of humour and romance, alongside some seriously brutal scenes, especially during Tris’s… Shares: Dystopias, Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Among the Imposters (Shadow Children #2) Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Luke Garner is terrified. Out of hiding for the first time, he knows that any minute one of his new classmates could discover his secret: that he's a third child passing as the recently deceased Lee Grant. And in a society where it's illegal for families to have more than two children, being a third child means certain death at the hands of the dreaded Population Police. His first experience… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

Martians Blythe Woolston · 2015 · ★ 3.2 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Sharp and satirical, this dark comedy will appeal to fans of M.T. Anderson's groundbreaking dystopia, Feed. An unsettling story of consumerism gone mad, MARTians imagines a not-so-distant future where our lives are ruled by the purchases we make. Last girl Zoe Zindleman, numerical ID 009-99-9999, is starting work at AllMART, where your smile is the AllMART welcome mat . Her living arrangements… Shares: Dystopias, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

Hollow City Ransom Riggs · 2013 · ★ 4.1 · 407p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Volumen 2. 2ª edición Shares: Escapes, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

Among the Barons Margaret Peterson Haddix · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken. Its a hell of a mystery. Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

I am the Cheese Robert Cormier · 1977 · ★ 3.9 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive. Shares: Boys & Men, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac Gabrielle Zevin · 2007 · ★ 3.7 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life. Shares: Amnesia, Children's fiction

The Battle of the Labyrinth Rick Riordan · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 382p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun, but when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears, pursued by demon cheerleaders, things quickly go from bad to worse. Time is running out for Percy. War between the gods and the Titans is drawing near. Even Camp Half-Blood isn't safe, as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop them, Percy and his… Shares: Labyrinths, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Lassie Come-Home Eric Knight · 1940 · ★ 4.2 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A collie named lassie has to be sold because her family are having bad times . Lassie escapes twice but when her new owner takes her to a place too far to run from will lassie be able to make the journey back to her home ? A collie undertakes a thousand-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate. Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when… Shares: Boys & Men, Children's fiction

The Awakening Kelley Armstrong · 2009 · ★ 3.7 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl — someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment — not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I'm a teenage necromancer whose… Shares: Escapes, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Hilo Judd Winick · 2015 · ★ 4.6 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "When a mysterious boy falls from the sky, friends D.J. and Gina must discover the secrets of his identity and help him save the world"-- Shares: Amnesia, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman · 2015 · ★ 4.1 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his… Shares: Social Themes, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Ashes Ilsa J. Bick · 2011 · ★ 3.2 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses. Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

Children of Refuge Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2017 · ★ 3.6 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Many surprises await twelve-year-old Edwy Watanaboneset when the Freds return him to Cursed Town, including that he has siblings in Refuge City who he will join in boarding school. Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

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