The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryDivergent by Veronica RothBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,989 voters
Nine, Ten by Nora Raleigh BaskinThe Memory of Things by Gae PolisnerAll We Have Left by Wendy MillsTowers Falling by Jewell Parker RhodesEleven by Tom   Rogers
9/11 in YA and Middle Grade Fiction
42 books — 47 voters

Assumed Identity by Scott McElhaneyExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerA Fall of Marigolds by Susan MeissnerDaylight by Grace A. JohnsonFalling Man by Don DeLillo
9/11 Fiction
27 books — 21 voters
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer102 Minutes by Jim  DwyerThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFedeThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
9/11 Related
251 books — 225 voters

The Gift of Fear by Gavin de BeckerDangerous Personalities by Joe NavarroInsane by Alisa RothBedlam by Kenneth Paul RosenbergHidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Mental Illness, Crime, and Violence
139 books — 28 voters
Columbine by Dave CullenA Mother's Reckoning by Sue KleboldChildren Under Fire by John Woodrow CoxWij zijn maar wij zijn niet geschift by Tim KrabbéColumbine by Jeff Kass
Generation Columbine - reader
120 books — 7 voters

Madman in the Woods by Jamie GehringDays of Rage by Bryan BurroughThey Want to Kill Americans by Malcolm W. NanceThe Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. KoernerLynched by Angela D. Sims
U.S. Domestic Terrorism (nonfiction)
124 books — 10 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiThe Long Winter by Laura Ingalls WilderI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouLeft to Tell by Immaculée IlibagizaWild by Cheryl Strayed
Women Survivors
273 books — 35 voters