A couple weekends ago, I finally watched The Maze Runner! It has non-stop action,
gasp-worthy thrills and a cliffhanger that makes me want to read the rest of the
series. (I read TMR in 2009.) In short, I loved it! The Scorch Trials (which is filming now) is on my TBR pile, along
with the rest of the series. But with so many people diving into The Maze Runner, it got me thinking
about authors and books to read after finishing book. Here are some of my
suggestions:
Joelle Charbonneau
When Cia gets chosen for The
Testing, she realizes it’s not the straight-forward program for future leaders
that she thought it was. This trilogy has a strong female lead, moments of
astonishing terror and threads of romance. The
Testing is followed by Independent
Study and Graduation Day, and is
an exciting dystopian trilogy!
James
Dashner
What better to read after The Maze Runner than the rest of the series? Okay, so this may be
cheating a bit, but after finishing The Maze
Runner, The Scorch Trials and The
Death Cure are the logical next step. The prequel The Kill Order and Dashner’s other series Eye of Minds, should be on the list too! The latter is a
technological thriller, where Michael is a gamer and a hacker.
Michael
Grant
In the span of a moment, all the adults disappear. Phones
stop working; there’s no internet or television. Just teenagers remain, and they
can’t figure out what happened. This is the premise of Gone, which begins a six book series that’s reminiscent of Lord of the Flies. Grant has two other thrilling
series, BZRK and one that began a few
months ago: Messenger of Fear.
Emmy
Laybourne
Fourteen kids ranging from elementary age to high schools
are trapped inside a superstore during a series of escalating disasters. With
apocalypse banging down the door, this trilogy is an exhilarating tale of
survival and adventure with a monster cliffhanger that will make you want to dive
into the rest of the trilogy, Sky on Fire
and Savage Drift, right away.
In a future where the United States is split into two, June
is a prodigy and Day is a wanted criminal. Their paths cross, of course, and
the results are action-packed. The trilogy is one of my favorite dystopians! I
have yet to read The Young Elites,
but it’s on my TBR list!
Neal
Shusterman
After America’s Second Civil War, Unwinding is a common
practice. Children between age thirteen and eighteen can be unwound, meaning
all their organs are transplanted to various recipients. Conner, Risa and Lev
are runaway Unwinds whose paths intersect. With death on the line, issues of
morality are tested in the Unwind Quartet. Shusterman has many other series and
books worth diving into as well.
Rick
Yancey
Alien invasion doesn’t exactly equal dystopian future,
but something that’s vital to Thomas’ story in The Maze Runner is his ability to survive, which runs deep in
Cassie’s story. Cassie’s survived four waves of the alien invasion, but now
she’s on her own, searching for her brother, as The Fifth Wave begins. A movie version is coming in just over a year,
and the sequel, The Infinite Sea, was
released over the summer.
What authors
and books do you recommend for fans of The Maze Runner?
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