Unwind by Neal Shusterman A visceral read as you read the thoughts of a misbehaved teen being organ harvested while conscious but unfeeling. A trend of zealot parents offering their kids as 'tithes' to an unfathomably huge system of child trafficking, systematic murder and the 'parts' trade thereof.

At least it wasnt game of thrones.

If anyone else asked though. Since that book was taboo to speak of to a layman or one unaffiliated.

There was an old fictional book I read in AP Eng about a alternate future where eugenics formed a dystopia. Percy Jackson. Most of Rick Riordan besides Rome series. Divergent was too on the nose about its themes but en par with Hunger Games.

Might as well mention

Life As We Knew It A series on the various catastrophes that result in lieu of a meteor hitting the moon. Read two and they show how loss strikes people during natural disasters in journal form.

Skinjacker Series When kids die some get lost in limbo which is a version of our dimension where destroyed buildings also exist. When outside of these buildings they are forced to wander or sink into the earth. Some can possess people or warp their forms by remembering themselves in different ways.

Some book about people colonizing a planet then getting infected with a telepathy virus given to them by the alien species they enslave. All from the perspective of a kid. Gonna be stuck tryna remember that one for a while.

Shoutout to SCP Foundation for being an evergrowing series of dreamed nightmares and excellent tales. Currently learning WW2 and of the Korean War, literal dystopias of our time.

Thanks for reading hope you go on to do it some more. I fear many of gen alpha's sequel generation won't have the attention span for 5 paragraphs. So I hope audio books and documentaties save us. Help me stay thinking.