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Books like The Giver

Enjoyed The Giver? We’ve scoured the web for book blogs and looked at all of their recommendations for books that are similar to The Giver. Here are 22 books that you may like if you liked The Giver.

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The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games Series
Suzanne Collins - 2008-10-14
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WINNING MEANS FAME AND FORTUNE.LOSING MEANS CERTAIN DEATH.THE HUNGER GAMES HAVE BEGUN. . . .In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and once girl between ...
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1984
George Orwell - 2022-07-01 (first published in 1949)
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Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of ...
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Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick - 2011-09-13
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Ben and Rose secretly wish for better lives. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are mi...
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood - 1998-04-01 (first published in 1985)
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Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaids Tale: an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction (New York Times).The Handmaids Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was...
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The Clay Lion
Amalie Jahn - 2013-04-01
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What if you could go back in time to save the person you love the most?The rules are simple. If you want to travel back in time, you need to be at least eighteen years old. You can only travel within your own lifespan for a maximum of six months. And above all else, you must never, ever, change the past.But that's exactly what Brooke Wallace plans ...
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Stardust
Neil Gaiman - 2006-08-29 (first published in 1998)
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Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall—named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath tha...
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The Secret Series Complete Collection
Pseudonymous Bosch - 2012-10-02 (first published in 2011)
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Not only is the name of this series a secret, but the story is, too. For it concerns a secret - a big secret - that has been tormenting people like you for over... oh no! Did I just mention the secret? Then it's too late. I'm afraid nothing will stop you now. Read this series if you must. But please, tell no one.Catch up on the adventures of Cass a...
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City of Bones
Cassandra Clare - 2007-03-27
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When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone e...
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The Girl Who Could Fly
Victoria Forester - 2010-02-02 (first published in 2008)
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You just can't keep a good girl down . . . unless you use the proper methods.Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie.Sure, she hasn't mastered reverse propulsion and her turns are kind of sloppy, but she's real good at loop-the-loops.Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wit's end. So it see...
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Graceling
Graceling Realm Series
Kristin Cashore - 2008-10-01
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Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug. She never expects to fall in love with beautifu...
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The Tale of Despereaux
Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
Kate Dicamillo - 2008-09-09 (first published in 2003)
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A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal–winning tale.Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world fill...
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
True Colors by Natalie Kinsey
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater