Books like The Maze Runner

1. 1Variant

   Variant

   Robison Wells

   Trapped at a walled academy controlled by unseen overseers, teens must navigate strict rules and plan an escape.

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2. 2Alive (The Generations Trilogy)

   Alive (The Generations Trilogy)

   Scott Sigler

   Young people wake up with total amnesia inside a lethal labyrinth and must band together to survive.

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3. 3Lockdown (Escape from Furnace #1)

   Lockdown (Escape from Furnace #1)

   Alexander Gordon Smith

   Teen boys trapped in a subterranean supermax prison face monstrous guards and plot a desperate breakout.

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4. 4The testing

   The testing

   Joelle Charbonneau

   High-stakes survival tests orchestrated by a shadowy government push chosen teenagers to their limits.

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5. 5Incarceron (Incarceron #1)

   Incarceron (Incarceron #1)

   Catherine Fisher

   An amnesiac boy struggles to survive and break out of a vast, living prison with unseen masters.

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6. 6The Hunger Games

   The Hunger Games

   Suzanne Collins

   Teens fight to survive in a technologically engineered arena run by a controlling, corrupt authority.

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7. 7Gone

   Gone

   Michael Grant

   Trapped inside an impenetrable barrier without adults, teenagers must form their own society to survive.

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8. 8Battle royale

   Battle royale

   Kōshun Takami

   Classmates forced into a closed arena by a totalitarian regime must outsmart deadly survival trials.

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9. 9Red Rising

   Red Rising

   Pierce Brown

   A fierce survival contest at a brutal academy forces youth to battle in an engineered wilderness.

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10. 10Pines

    Pines

    Blake Crouch

    An amnesiac protagonist awakens in a fenced town guarded by deadly creatures and shadowy monitors.

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