Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic Fiction for Teens

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• First in a trilogy
• Dystopian 

The Unidentified by Rae Mariz

• Dystopian
• Middle and high school interest

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

• First in a series
• Dystopian

Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien

• Post-Apocalyptic

Matched by Ally Condie

• First in a trilogy
• Dystopian

Birth Marked by Caragh M. OBrien

• First in a trilogy
• Dystopian 

Feed by M.T. Anderson

• Dystopian

Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

• First in a series 
• Post-Apocalyptic

The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Dystopian

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

• Post-Apocalyptic
• High school interest

A Single Stone by Megan McKinley

• Dystopian
• Middle and high school interest

Divergent by Veronica Roth

• First in a trilogy
•  Dystopian

On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis

• Pub Date: 2016
• High school interest
• See also: Making Decisions 
• Denise has to decide if she will take the spot offered on a spaceship leaving earth as a comet is about to hit or stay with her family (or maybe try to sneak them on the ship?). 

Drowned by Nicola Reilly

• Pub Date: 2014
• Middle and high school interest 
• Post-apocalyptic 

The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow

• Pub Date: 2015
• High school interest
• Dystopian 
• See also: Political Intrigue 
• The children of world leaders are held hostage to prevent war breaking out in this future world.

The Scourge by Jennifer Nielsen

• Pub Date: 2016
• Middle/high school interest
• Ani is diagnosed with The Scourge and taken to The Colony, but all is not as it seems. 

Dry by Neal Shusterman

• Pub Date: 2018
• High school interest
• When the water runs out in California, chaos takes over.