Recs if you like Gone ...

[BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE]

Dystopia-core library books you inhaled in middle school on the bus so you could talk about them during lunch period.

Or: books that had an entire generation of kids convinced they were going to develop powers and be taken to a secret government facility

Allow me to set the scene:

It’s 2 AM on a school night but you only have 100 pages left. You will power through. Forget the math test you have first period. This is your priority. And you must know how the book ends.

I don’t know what sort of millennial catnip these 2000s YA authors put in these books, but let me tell you, my “baby millennial” self was addicted.

Pagebound Millennials: what YA were you reading?

Based on my favorite podcast Rereading the Revolution. The hosts reread and recap popular 2000s-2010s novels from Divergent to Looking for Alaska.

The list is in order of oldest episodes to most recent. I will try and update when new episodes drop.

So take a walk down memory lane with these nostalgic picks, or find something new that sparks your inner teenager! Please give the podcast a listen, I think they’re a great bookish podcast to support

Secular takes on the Rapture

Speculative fiction books with autistic characters, or by openly autistic identifying authors, as put together by Ada Hoffmann from 2011 to 2023 - plus Hoffmann herself, who's also autistic. For books I couldn't find, see comments! If you can add books to GR to add them here, you're welcome to do so (and tell me so I add them to this list)!

syllabus for the eager scholars of rereading the revolution aka the books that shaped teenagers from 2005 to 2015 (based on the books read & discussed on the podcast by Kellie & Daphne – regular episodes, without bonus )

Books that blew my mind in the 2010s that are still famous to me.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch!!! I was there when it was written, so trust me on these deep cuts (shout out to Ash and Wildthorn for introducing me to lesbianism in 2009)

I’m writing a book where something similar to the rapture happens, so I want to read more books with that concept! Most of these I haven’t read yet, but they popped up when I was googling the subject!

This will include fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, dystopia, and general apocalypse type books. Anything involving a huge amount of people suddenly vanishing and those left behind have to survive.

Please let me know if you have recommendations, especially books where aliens are disappearing people!

The government wouldn’t do that….. This will of course include the booktok hits and a few more niche recommendations based on what I’ve read

formulaic? sure, but i was obsessed w the formula.

YA and Middle Grade books that remind me why I fell in love with reading to begin with.

for dreamers and a good cry up until dawn

steve harrington: no way he’s a big reader, but I think these would resonate