Books like The City of Ember
If you liked The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, 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 Maze Runner
Because 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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Leviathan Wakes
Because shares tags: science fiction, mystery, adventure.
A destroyed ice hauler, a missing heiress, and an alien growth pull a crew and a tired detective toward war across the solar system.
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Destroy Me
Because shares tags: young adult, dystopia, science fiction.
Shot by Juliette, Warner holds his base together while his father arrives with harsher plans for her.
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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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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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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 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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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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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.
