Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
2006
Books with the “Rebellion” trope
Characters rise up against an unjust power or an oppressive system.
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Plot twists · Rebellion
Books with this trope
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
2008
Dune
Frank Herbert
1965
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
1949
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
1953
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
1985
The Collapsing Empire
John Scalzi
2017
Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel
2022
Animal Farm
George Orwell
1945
Divergent
Veronica Roth
2011
Delirium
Lauren Oliver
2011
Anthem
Ayn Rand
1938
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
2005
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
1992
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
2015
The Darkest Minds
Alexandra Bracken
2012
The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri
2021
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson
2015
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
2015
The Sunne in Splendour
Sharon Kay Penman
1982
Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros
2023
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
1924
Wool
Hugh Howey
2011
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
2014
Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi
2011
Legend
Marie Lu
2011
Matched
Ally Condie
2010
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard
2015
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
2017
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
1962
The Mad Women's Ball
Victoria Mas
2019
Rebel of the Sands
Alwyn Hamilton
2016
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
1967
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
1958
The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski
2014
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