As a special Inspiration Point Friday, I’ve compiled a list of YA Dystopian novels of all shapes, sizes, colors, and hardships. There are plenty of corrupt governments, mind experiments, viruses, natural resource depletions, zombies, monsters, prisons, pirates, and bombs…some are very new, some haven’t been released yet, and some date back to the 1970s and yet still remain some of the best YA dystopias ever written.

Dystopias come in all flavors. So pick a flavor, any flavor. Which of these have you read? Any that I’ve missed? Share them in the comments!

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

• The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
• The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
• The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan (March 22, 2011)

• The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
• The Carbon Diaries 2017 by Saci Lloyd
• Empty by Suzanne Weyn

• Matched by Allie Condie (November 30, 2010)
• Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony
• Birthmarked by Caragh M. O’Brien

• Nomansland by Lesley Hauge
• The Line by Teri Hall
• Epitaph Road by David Patneaude

• Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Raiders’ Ransom by Emily Diamond
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

• Incarceron by Cathie Fisher
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner
• The Scorch Trials by James Dashner (October 12, 2010)

• Feed by Mira Grant
• Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien
• Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

• Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• The Dead & the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer

• Gone by Michael Grant
• Hunger by Michael Grant
• Lies by Michael Grant

• The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
• The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
• The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau

• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
• The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
• Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

• For the Win by Cory Doctorow
• House of Stairs by William Sleater
• I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
• Messenger by Lois Lowry

• Feed by M.T. Anderson
• The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
• The Gardener by S.A. Bodeen

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
• Specials by Scott Westerfeld

• The Water Wars by Cameron Stratcher (January 1, 2011)
• XVI by Julia Karr (January 6, 2011)
• Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder