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We have a few thoughts on what to read if you’re interested in characters navigating chaotic worlds in which there is no clear-cut Good and Evil. Check out this collection of morally complex and free-range YA.
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,713,259 ratings
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 4,070,538 ratings
score: 495,
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 3,645,912 ratings
score: 390,
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 282,882 ratings
score: 380,
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4 people voted
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An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
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Sabaa Tahir (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 340,058 ratings
score: 358,
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4 people voted
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Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 478,277 ratings
score: 350,
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Everything, Everything
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 672,377 ratings
score: 279,
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3 people voted
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Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
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Elizabeth Wein (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,888 ratings
score: 271,
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3 people voted
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Only Ever Yours
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3.76 avg rating — 18,085 ratings
score: 265,
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3 people voted
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Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
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Isabel Quintero (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 11,471 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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Vivian Apple at the End of the World (Vivian Apple, #1)
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Katie Coyle (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 5,370 ratings
score: 184,
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2 people voted
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Vengeance Bound
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Justina Ireland (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 848 ratings
score: 183,
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2 people voted
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More Happy Than Not
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Adam Silvera (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 67,885 ratings
score: 181,
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2 people voted
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
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Judy Blume (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 253,711 ratings
score: 177,
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2 people voted
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Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
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A.S. King (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 9,578 ratings
score: 176,
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2 people voted
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The Kingdom on the Waves (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #2)
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3.73 avg rating — 3,985 ratings
score: 174,
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2 people voted
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The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
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3.55 avg rating — 16,012 ratings
score: 174,
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2 people voted
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Feed
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3.55 avg rating — 67,456 ratings
score: 164,
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2 people voted
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Bitterblue (Graceling Realm, #3)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 123,554 ratings
score: 158,
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2 people voted
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The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
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Renée Ahdieh (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 185,442 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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4.30 avg rating — 504,899 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)
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Megan Whalen Turner (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 49,470 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)
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Megan Whalen Turner (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 42,896 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Prophecy (The Dragon King Chronicles, #1)
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Ellen Oh (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 3,882 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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A Conspiracy of Kings (The Queen's Thief, #4)
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Megan Whalen Turner (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 28,458 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Warrior (The Dragon King Chronicles, #2)
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Ellen Oh (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 33,751 ratings
score: 96,
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King (The Dragon King Chronicles, #3)
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Ellen Oh (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 640 ratings
score: 95,
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
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Leslye Walton (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 43,084 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Tracked (Tracked, #1)
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Jenny Martin (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 978 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Impossible Knife of Memory
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 29,688 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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We Were Liars
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E. Lockhart (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 1,353,358 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Archivist Wasp (Archivist Wasp Saga, #1)
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Nicole Kornher-Stace (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 3,871 ratings
score: 91,
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Blood and Chocolate
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3.80 avg rating — 43,823 ratings
score: 91,
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 203,124 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Skin Hunger
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3.78 avg rating — 3,742 ratings
score: 90,
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The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 101,262 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 101,369 ratings
score: 89,
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Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
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4.22 avg rating — 90,081 ratings
score: 88,
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Replica
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Jack Heath (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 309 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Nimona
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4.18 avg rating — 183,977 ratings
score: 86,
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1 person voted
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Like No Other
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Una LaMarche (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 3,392 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Forever...
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Judy Blume (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 66,855 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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Some Girls Are
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Courtney Summers (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 15,293 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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The Lost Girl
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Sangu Mandanna (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 6,224 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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Finnikin of the Rock (Lumatere Chronicles, #1)
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Melina Marchetta (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 44,388 ratings
score: 73,
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Saving Francesca
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Melina Marchetta (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 33,329 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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The Young Elites (The Young Elites, #1)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 142,188 ratings
score: 70,
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None of the Above
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I.W. Gregorio (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 14,136 ratings
score: 69,
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All the Rage
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Courtney Summers (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 15,320 ratings
score: 68,
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1 person voted
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What We Saw
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Aaron Hartzler (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 8,048 ratings
score: 66,
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Fire (Graceling Realm, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 193,193 ratings
score: 64,
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1 person voted
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The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
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Stephanie Oakes (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 12,784 ratings
score: 62,
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