Books like Flawed

Loved Flawed by Cecelia Ahern? Here are 9 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

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1The Giver
The Giver
Lois Lowry
A child in a controlled community discovers what its order has hidden, much as Celestine does in a society built on approval.
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2Uglies
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
A society that changes people at a set age to make them conform, and a protagonist who must decide what she is willing to lose.
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3The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
A state that controls women's lives through rules and punishment, told by a narrator who lives under constant watch.
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4Brave New World
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
A carefully managed society that keeps its people content by controlling what they want, and a single outsider who questions it.
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5Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
A surveillance state that punishes independent thought, and an ordinary citizen whose small private acts become dangerous.
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6The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
A rigid society that uses spectacle and fear to keep people in line, and a young woman who refuses to play by its rules.
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7Divergent
Divergent
Veronica Roth
A city that sorts its people into rigid groups, and a heroine who must decide where she truly belongs.
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8Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
A quiet, unsettling account of a life shaped by a system no one questions, narrated with restraint.
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9Unwind
Unwind
Neal Shusterman
A society that has found a legal way to control its citizens, and characters who fight for the right to choose their own futures.
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