by Suzanne Collins (2009)
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games. But her defiance has sparked an open rebellion across the districts of Panem, and President Snow schemes retribution in the Quarter Quell.
Suzanne Collins
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death.
Veronica Roth
In a dystopian Chicago divided into five factions based on personality virtues, Beatrice Prior learns she is Divergent—she will never fit into just one group. When a conspiracy threatens to destroy her world, she must fight back.
K.W. Benton
Growing up in small town Louisiana as the only child of a single mother, G.J. led a sheltered life. Being a misfit didn't bother her until a prank, aimed at her, goes wrong causing her mother's death. Since then she has moved to the other side of the country to live with her Aunt Celia. What G.J. finds in her new hometown makes being a social outcast the least of her troubles. The most popular cheerleader wants her head and the hottest guy in school sends her to the hospital. In this bizarre world there is a new definition for normal. Along the way she will make friends, make enemies and discover she can't always trust she is in control of herself. She isn't the only one who can do the unusual.
Leigh Bardugo
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone: he needs a crew of six dangerous outcasts.