Books like “Red Queen”

What to read after “Red Queen” by Victoria Aveyard: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir · 2015
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
Under the Martial Empire, Laia's brother is arrested as a traitor, so she goes undercover as a slave in a brutal military academy to spy for the rebels. There she meets Elias, a reluctant soldier whose future is bound to the regime she works against.
2
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare · 2007
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Secret Society”
Clary Fray sees a murder no one else can, committed by three tattooed teenagers with strange weapons. When her mother vanishes, Clary is drawn into the world of the Shadowhunters, warriors who protect humans from demons, and learns her own past is part of their hidden war.
3
Fallen
Lauren Kate · 2009
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
After a boy dies in a fire she cannot explain, Lucinda is sent to Sword & Cross, a bleak reform school in Savannah. There she is drawn to Daniel, a distant student she somehow knows. The shadows she has seen since childhood, and Daniel's secrets, point to a love older than her life.
4
Matched
Ally Condie · 2010
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Star-Crossed Lovers”
In a society where the Officials choose who you love, Cassia is matched with her best friend, until a mistake shows her another face. Torn between two futures, she begins to question the system that decides everything for her.
5
The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater · 2012
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Coming of Age
Blue has grown up in a house of psychics and is warned she will cause her true love's death. Drawn into the search for a lost Welsh king with a group of boys from a prestigious school, she finds her life tangled with theirs and with their dangerous families.
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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Rebellion
- Forbidden Love
In a city that has conquered and enslaved a neighbouring people, the general's daughter Kestrel buys a defiant young slave named Arin on a whim. He is far more than he seems, and as rebellion stirs in the streets, Kestrel finds her loyalty to her family pulling against everything she feels for him.
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Legendborn
Tracy Deonn · 2020
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Secret Society”
After her mother's death, Bree Matthews joins an early college program at UNC and witnesses a demon attack that no one else remembers. Pulled into a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights, she hunts for the truth behind the magic that erased her memory.
8
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 2008
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Star-Crossed Lovers”
In Panem, each district must send two teenagers to fight to the death on television. When Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her sister's place, she turns the Games into something the Capitol cannot fully control.
9
Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick · 2009
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
Nora Grey keeps her head down until her biology partner, the aloof Patch, starts appearing wherever she goes. He knows too much, says too little, and seems to want her for reasons he will not name. Falling for him means choosing a side in a fallen angel's ancient struggle.
10
Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Star-Crossed Lovers”
Juliette's touch is lethal, so the world has locked her away. When a military faction offers her a chance to use her power, she must decide who to trust in a regime that would use her as a weapon.
11
Delirium
Lauren Oliver · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Rebellion”
In a world where love is treated as a disease, Lena counts down the days to the cure that will keep her safe. Weeks before her treatment she falls in love, and must choose between the orderly life promised to her and the risk of feeling.
12
An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
Isobel paints portraits for the fae, whose kind cannot create art themselves. When she paints mortal sorrow into the face of the autumn prince, she commits a crime that could cost her life. He carries her to his court for judgment, and their mutual distrust slowly turns into something forbidden.