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If Divergent stayed with you, these share its feel: identity, freedom and serenity. Each comes with a real page, so you can tell in a minute.

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  1. 1.Catching Fire

    Suzanne Collins, 2008

    Also freedom and unease. In a dystopian America, survival means a dangerous dance between rebellion and the crushing power of a totalitarian Capitol.

    “I think we’ll make this whole situation a lot simpler by agreeing not to lie to each other,” he says. “What do you think?”I think my tongue has frozen and speech will be impossible, so I surprise myself by answering back in a steady voice, “Yes, I think that would save time.”“Whatever problems anyone may have with the Capitol, believe me when I say that if it released its grip on the districts for even a short time, the entire system would collapse.” [...]“It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.”
    Excerpt from Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins, Van Goor 2008. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  2. 2.The Giver

    Lois Lowry, 1993

    Also freedom and love. A boy in a perfectly ordered community is chosen to hold its memories—and discovers what that order costs.

    NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE WILL BE RELEASED, the voice had said, followed by silence. There was an ironic tone to that finally message, as if the Speaker found it amusing; and Jonas had smiled a little, though he knew what a grim statement it had been. For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
    Excerpt from The Giver, Lois Lowry, Listening Library 1993. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  3. 3.The Maze Runner

    James Dashner, 2009

    Also serenity and identity. A boy wakes with no memory in a moving lift, among boys who have built a life beside a shifting maze. The rules are simple; the questions aren't.

    And then, as if the lens of a camera had sharpened its focus, the faces cleared. They were boys, all of them—some young, some older. Thomas didn’t know what he’d expected, but seeing those faces puzzled him. They were just teenagers. Kids. Some of his fear melted away, but not enough to calm his racing heart.
    Excerpt from The Maze Runner, James Dashner, Delacorte Press 2009. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  4. 4.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    J. K. Rowling, 1999

    Also adventure and serenity. A prison break, soul-draining guards, and a map that insults its readers: Harry's third year at Hogwarts.

    Now, my three friends could hardly fail to notice that I disappeared once a month. I made up all sorts of stories. I told them my mother was ill, and that I had to go home to see her... I was terrified they would desert me the moment they found out what I was. But of course, they, like you, Hermione, worked out the truth...
    Excerpt from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling, Bloomsbury Children's Books 1999. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  5. 5.Paper Towns

    John Green, 2008

    Also identity and adventure. A boy who has loved the girl next door from afar gets one wild night with her—and then she vanishes, leaving clues meant for him.

    “Here’s what’s not beautiful about it: from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It’s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It’s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I’ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”
    Excerpt from Paper Towns, John Green, Penguin Books 2008. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  6. 6.Convenience Store Woman

    Sayaka Murata, 2016

    Also identity. A woman who has worked in a convenience store for eighteen years finds its manual clearer than society's unwritten rules.

    The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me.
    Excerpt from Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata 2016. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  7. 7.Twilight

    Stephenie Meyer, 2005

    Also love and adventure. A girl moves to a rain-drenched town and falls for a boy whose beauty is inseparable from danger. Mood, appetite, and bad decisions.

  8. 8.Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley, 1932

    Also unease and identity. An engineered future where comfort is compulsory and happiness is manufactured—and one outsider asks what was sacrificed to get it.

  9. 11.Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen, 1813

    Also love. A sharp-eyed comedy about money, manners and misjudgment, in which a quick-witted woman and a proud man keep being wrong about each other. Funnier and more cutting than its reputation suggests.

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