Books like The Giver
If you liked The Giver by Lois Lowry, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Death Cure
Because shares tags: young adult, dystopia, science fiction.
Thomas refuses WICKED's final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north.
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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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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Because shares tags: science fiction, dystopia, classics.
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.
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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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The Time Machine
Because shares tags: science fiction, classics, dystopia.
Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.
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The Scorch Trials
Because 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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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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Shatter Me
Because shares tags: young adult, dystopia, science fiction.
Juliette Ferrars, whose touch kills, is locked up by the Reestablishment until Adam and Warner pull her into war.
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Allegiant
Because shares tags: dystopia, young adult, science fiction.
Tris and Tobias leave walled Chicago to learn what lies past the fence. Allegiant closes the Divergent trilogy with Bureau secrets, exile,…
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A Wrinkle in Time
Because shares tags: science fiction, classics, young adult.
Meg Murry, Charles Wallace and Calvin tessar past Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which to Camazotz to free Mr Murry from IT.
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The Outsiders
Because shares tags: young adult, coming of age, classics.
Outsiders retold: Ponyboy and greasers vs Socs, church fire, rumble, stay gold ache.
