Books like The Death Cure
If you liked The Death Cure by James Dashner, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Maze Runner
Because same series (The Maze Runner #1); also by James Dashner; shares tags: dystopia, science fiction, young adult.
Maze Runner retold: Thomas wakes in Glade, walls move, Grievers sting, Teresa triggers end.
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The Scorch Trials
Because same series (The Maze Runner #2); also by James Dashner; shares tags: dystopia, young adult, science fiction.
Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches.
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The 5th Wave
Because shares tags: young adult, science fiction, dystopia.
Cassie Sullivan crosses ruined Ohio to save Sammy after four alien waves, trusting Evan Walker while doubting him.
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The Hunger Games
Because shares tags: young adult, dystopia, science fiction.
Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games explained: the reaping, Rue, the tracker jackers, the nightlock berry standoff, and what the arena is…
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Catching Fire
Because shares tags: young adult, dystopia, science fiction.
Suzanne Collins's Catching Fire explained: the Quarter Quell, the arena's secret, Finnick and Johanna, and the moment the Games turn into a…
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I Am Number Four
Because shares tags: young adult, science fiction, adventure.
Alien teen Four hides in Ohio and develops Legacies with Sam and Sarah.
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Hatchet
Because shares tags: survival, adventure, young adult.
A plane crash leaves thirteen-year-old Brian alone in the Canadian wild with only a hatchet.
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Delirium
Because shares tags: young adult, dystopia, science fiction.
In a America where love is treated as disease, Lena Haloway counts down to her Cure until she meets Alex in Portland.
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Red Rising
Because shares tags: science fiction, dystopia, young adult.
Darrow, a Red miner on Mars, loses his wife and is remade as a Gold to infiltrate the Institute, where teens wage war for power and he…
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Legend
Because shares tags: young adult, dystopia, science fiction.
Day and June collide in the Republic: he is wanted for murder, she hunts him, then learns the truth about Metias and the plague.
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The Host
Because shares tags: science fiction, dystopia, adventure.
Stephenie Meyer imagines Earth settled by Souls, where Wanderer wakes inside Melanie Stryder and hears her voice refuse to fade, sparking a…
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Because shares tags: dystopia, young adult, survival.
Young Coriolanus Snow mentors Lucy Gray in the 10th Hunger Games.
