Top Ten All Time Favorite Books in YA Dystopian

Top Ten Tuesday is a feature over at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is “All Time Favorite Book in “x” genre”. Of course, I chose my absolute favorite, YA Dystopian. Some of these will be series, since it would be way too hard to pick individual books! As it stands, picking only ten took me all weekend. *Confession: I picked extras at the bottom.
10. Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth. I went back and forth with putting this on my list at all. Basically, I should really specify Divergent and Insurgent as Top Tens. Even thinking about Allegiant just makes me stabby. So we’ll leave that off the list. But I loved the first two enough to merit the series’ place on the list. 

9. Delirium trilogy by Lauren Oliver. This probably would have been a little higher, but I didn’t love how it ended. (Or maybe, how it didn’t end? I don’t know.) But at any rate, I loved this series right up until (almost) the end. 

8. After the Fear by Roseanne Rivers. This book was awesome, and I keep hoping and crossing my fingers that she will write another. 

7.  Dwellers Saga and Country Saga by David Estes. Two series with one epic, joint finale. I adored this series, all the different worlds and different characters. 

 6. Under theNever Sky trilogy by Veronica Rossi. It took me awhile to warm up to the first book, but after like, the first three chapters, it was on. Possibly my favorite set of characters ever in any book.
5. Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness. A recommendation from a friend, I almost did not read it. It seemed long, and weird, and I didn’t want to. Until I did. And then I couldn’t stop, and it wasn’t long enough. 

4. Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman. This series is creepy, terrifying, shocking, and utterly amazing. I can’t even explain it. Just read it. 
3. The Woodlands series by Lauren Nicolle Taylor. I am just hooked on this series! I just finished the third book, The Wounded,  and I simply cannot wait for the fourth! Lauren can certainly write, and these characters are amazing!

2. Apocalypsis series by Elle Casey: I was definitely hooked from the first book, I fell in love with the characters, and I was so very happy with the way things turned out in this book. Sure, there were moments where I was completely sobbing, but then there were moments where I was just smiling from ear to ear, it was the perfect combination of emotions that made the book so absolutely wonderful. This is one of those rare series that I guarantee I will be re-reading

1. The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Obviously I have an unhealthy obsession. My daughter has a doll named “Katniss”. My son’s cleft bear is called “Haystitch Aberclefty”. No more information is necessary. I am in love. 


* Can I cheat? Please? Pretty please? Thanks. Here are a few that I still adore, but didn’t quite make the cut:

Dust Lands trilogy by Moira Young. The third book will be out soon, and that will probably make or break its position on my list. But so far, I love! 

Ashfall trilogy by Mike Mullin. See above. It is just so hard to include a series in a Top Ten when you don’t know what the end will bring! 

 Dark Inside and Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts. My public plea for Ms. Roberts: More, please! I need it. Need. I have read that she will finish the story at some point, but the wait does not make me happy, because these are some creepily-fantastic books. 

– Dissidence and Vengeance by Jamie Canosa. This was one of those series in which I kind of got absorbed into the world of the book. I read the second one in two nights, and then had a book hangover for a week. 

Eden’s Root Trilogy by Rachel Fisher. I was hooked on this series from the beginning. I hadn’t heard much about it before, and haven’t since, but more people should be reading this one! 

Born Trilogy by Tara Brown. Quite an unsettling world, and an unsettling main character, she makes such a journey and transformation during this series.

Posted March 11, 2014 by Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight in Uncategorized / 7 Comments

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