Books like “The Selection”

What to read after “The Selection” by Kiera Cass: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
Delirium
Lauren Oliver · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Forbidden Love
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.
2
Matched
Ally Condie · 2010
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
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.
3
Divergent
Veronica Roth · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Tournament
In a city divided into five factions, Beatrice Prior learns she does not belong to any of them. Choosing the warrior Dauntless, she hides her divergence while uncovering a plot that threatens everyone, and finds herself drawn to an instructor named Four.
4
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld · 2005
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Love Triangle
In a future where everyone turns pretty at sixteen through surgery, fifteen-year-old Tally longs for the operation. When her friend runs away instead, Tally is sent to find her, and learns what the surgery and the society that demands it really cost.
5
The Darkest Minds
Alexandra Bracken · 2012
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
After a disease kills most American children, the survivors develop dangerous powers and are locked in government camps. Sixteen-year-old Ruby escapes and joins a group of runaways searching for a safe haven, while learning the cost of her own abilities.
6
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 2008
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
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.
7
The Giver
Lois Lowry · 1993
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a community without pain or choice, where every life is planned. Chosen to receive memories from the Giver, he learns what the community gave up and decides what he must do with that knowledge.
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An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Tournament” and “Love Triangle”
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.
9
Red Rising
Pierce Brown · 2014
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Tournament
On a future Mars, a miner from the lowest caste learns that the paradise he was promised does not exist and that his people are slaves. He is remade as a member of the ruling class and sent into a brutal contest where he plans to bring the whole system down.
10
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas · 2012
Same genre: “Young adult fiction”
- Tournament
- Love Triangle
Celaena Sardothien, the kingdom's most notorious assassin, is dragged from a salt mine to compete in a contest for the king. Victory would buy her freedom, but the court is full of plots and her rivals will do anything. Between a prince and a guardsman, she searches for who she can trust.
11
Scythe
Neal Shusterman · 2016
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
In a future where death has been conquered, professional Scythes must choose who dies in order to control the population. Two teenagers are apprenticed to a Scythe and trained to kill, even as they question the system and each other.
12
Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Love Triangle
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.