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Booklist of 18 YA science fiction novels/graphic novels. One of 14 award-winning Booklists for Teens, created by librarians at DC Public Library in Washington, DC--with some additions by elissa, Erin, and other voters.
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,694,370 ratings
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Shadow Hills (Shadow Hills, #1)
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Anastasia Hopcus (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 3,699 ratings
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 4,061,685 ratings
score: 886,
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,457,958 ratings
score: 871,
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,984,809 ratings
score: 826,
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Academy 7
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Anne Osterlund (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 6,594 ratings
score: 792,
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8 people voted
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,756,425 ratings
score: 676,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,303,041 ratings
score: 625,
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The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,650,016 ratings
score: 522,
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6 people voted
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The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 95,896 ratings
score: 490,
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 3,638,049 ratings
score: 490,
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 202,967 ratings
score: 467,
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The Martian Chronicles
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4.16 avg rating — 281,730 ratings
score: 441,
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 556,880 ratings
score: 422,
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Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 52,862 ratings
score: 387,
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,589,812 ratings
score: 372,
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Feed
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3.55 avg rating — 67,403 ratings
score: 349,
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
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Mary E. Pearson (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 52,867 ratings
score: 343,
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4 people voted
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Enchantress from the Stars (Elana, #1)
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Sylvia Engdahl (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 4,165 ratings
score: 278,
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3 people voted
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Singing the Dogstar Blues
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Alison Goodman (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
score: 274,
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The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 101,177 ratings
score: 246,
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Greegs & Ladders
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3.08 avg rating — 277 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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By Bear Bones
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Vasexandros (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 200,
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Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)
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Philip Reeve (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 69,893 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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New X-Men, Vol. 1 : E Is for Extinction
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4.06 avg rating — 9,958 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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Uglies (Uglies, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 703,715 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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Wizards at War (Young Wizards, #8)
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Diane Duane (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 5,698 ratings
score: 190,
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Exodus (Exodus, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 4,157 ratings
score: 188,
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Siberia
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3.73 avg rating — 661 ratings
score: 183,
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 16,325 ratings
score: 182,
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Starship Troopers
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4.01 avg rating — 243,342 ratings
score: 164,
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Shade's Children
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Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 13,570 ratings
score: 135,
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2 people voted
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Hex (Hex, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 902 ratings
score: 128,
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Clover, Vol. 1
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3.87 avg rating — 1,542 ratings
score: 100,
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The Listener
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score: 100,
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A Matter of Profit
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Hilari Bell (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 375 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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A Matter of Honor (Knife of Truth, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Black Glass
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Meg Mundell (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 117 ratings
score: 100,
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Martin King and the Space Angels (Martin King #1)
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3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Solterian Keeper and the Enchanted Talisman
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R.K. Appling (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 100,
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Road to Megara (Knife of Truth, #2)
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3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Las tejedoras de destinos (Las tejedoras de destinos, #1)
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Gennifer Albin (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 18,986 ratings
score: 96,
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Warchild (Warchild, #1)
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Karin Lowachee (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 2,262 ratings
score: 95,
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The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 632,421 ratings
score: 95,
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Pretties (Uglies, #2)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 278,143 ratings
score: 95,
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Nothing
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3.71 avg rating — 39,982 ratings
score: 95,
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Specials (Uglies, #3)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 202,791 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Skinned (Cold Awakening, #1)
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Robin Wasserman (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 12,895 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Crashed (Cold Awakening, #2)
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Robin Wasserman (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 4,505 ratings
score: 92,
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Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 206,265 ratings
score: 92,
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Rite of Passage
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3.82 avg rating — 3,743 ratings
score: 91,
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Time and Again
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3.94 avg rating — 24,836 ratings
score: 89,
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The Explosionist (Sophie Hunter, Book 1)
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3.49 avg rating — 695 ratings
score: 88,
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,277,519 ratings
score: 88,
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This Time of Darkness
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4.29 avg rating — 702 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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Children of the Star (Children of the Star, #1-3)
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Sylvia Engdahl (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 221 ratings
score: 86,
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The Far Side of Evil (Elana, #2)
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Sylvia Engdahl (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 558 ratings
score: 85,
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Taylor Five
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3.61 avg rating — 122 ratings
score: 84,
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Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 398,168 ratings
score: 84,
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Earthseed (Seed, #1)
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Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 728 ratings
score: 83,
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Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 58,436 ratings
score: 82,
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The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 476,553 ratings
score: 81,
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Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 44,803 ratings
score: 79,
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We All Looked Up
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Tommy Wallach (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 28,664 ratings
score: 77,
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Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)
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Caragh M. O'Brien (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 48,769 ratings
score: 76,
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When You Reach Me
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4.08 avg rating — 115,741 ratings
score: 75,
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Blood Red Road (Dust Lands, #1)
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Moira Young (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 62,194 ratings
score: 73,
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Homeland (Little Brother, #2)
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 9,569 ratings
score: 72,
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For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)
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Diana Peterfreund (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 19,110 ratings
score: 71,
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 246,259 ratings
score: 70,
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Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)
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Lauren DeStefano (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 100,759 ratings
score: 69,
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More Than This
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3.94 avg rating — 69,607 ratings
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Predator's Gold (The Hungry City Chronicles, #2)
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Philip Reeve (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 26,766 ratings
score: 65,
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They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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Adam Silvera (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 849,992 ratings
score: 64,
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At the Edge of the Universe
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Shaun David Hutchinson (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 6,424 ratings
score: 63,
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The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker, #2)
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 11,272 ratings
score: 62,
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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4.15 avg rating — 137,586 ratings
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We Are the Ants
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Shaun David Hutchinson (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 53,352 ratings
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Matched (Matched, #1)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 811,465 ratings
score: 58,
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Legend (Legend, #1)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 558,718 ratings
score: 57,
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Noggin
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3.74 avg rating — 12,181 ratings
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Grasshopper Jungle
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3.64 avg rating — 18,833 ratings
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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 999,413 ratings
score: 54,
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Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)
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Beth Revis (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 119,226 ratings
score: 53,
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Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 62,274 ratings
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 4,317,073 ratings
score: 51,
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Delirium (Delirium, #1)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 477,556 ratings
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Maggot Moon
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3.80 avg rating — 9,962 ratings
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Glow (Sky Chasers, #1)
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Amy Kathleen Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 13,647 ratings
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Landscape with Invisible Hand
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3.57 avg rating — 4,212 ratings
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Sky Bounce
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Deanna Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Tempest (Tempest, #1)
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Julie Cross (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 13,557 ratings
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Black Hole Sun (Hell's Cross, #1)
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3.52 avg rating — 1,893 ratings
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The Last Book in the Universe
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3.91 avg rating — 10,167 ratings
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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 268,852 ratings
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The Cyborg From Earth
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3.66 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Dark Side of Nowhere
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 1,919 ratings
score: 32,
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Jumping Off the Planet (Dingilliad, #1)
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Rhona Campbell had the main responsibility for compiling the original list of 18.
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I see that 28 people voted for SHADOW HILLS, so it's 2nd on the list, but it looks more like fantasy than SF! :(
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