Upcoming Dystopian Novels

Lots of good stuff coming up. See this post for a list of dystopian sequels.

Novels coming up that authors previewed in my dystopian month interview series and/or that I reviewed during Dystopian February 2012 (click on title to read summary and see cover when available):

Lissa Price's STARTERS (Random House/March 13, 2012)

Leah Bobet's ABOVE (Scholastic/April 1, 2012)

Julie Kagawa previews THE IMMORTAL RULES (HarlequinTeen/April 24, 2012)

Keira Cass' THE SELECTION (HarperCollins/April 24, 2012)

Bethany Griffin's THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (HarperCollins/April 24, 2012)

Jennifer Bosworth's STRUCK (FSG/May 8, 2012)

Catherine Knutsson previews SHADOWS CAST BY STARS(Atheneum/Simon & Schuster/June 5, 2012)

Emmy Laybourne's MONUMENT 14 (Feiwel & Friends/June 5, 2012)

Claire Merle previews THE GLIMPSE (Faber & Faber UK/June 7, 2012)

Diana Peterfreund previews FOR DARKNESS SHOWS THE STARS (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins/June 12, 2012)

Courtney Summers' THIS IS NOT A TEST (June 18, 2012)

SJ Kincaid previews INSIGNIA (Katherine Tegan/HarperCollins/July 10, 2012)

Heather Anastasiu's GLITCH (St. Martins/August 7, 2012)

CJ Redwine previews DEFIANCE (HarperCollins/August 28, 2012)

Jay Kristoff previews STORMDANCER (St. Martins Press/US Tor/UK September 18, 2012)

Kat Zhang previews WHAT'S LEFT OF ME (HarperTeen/September 18, 2012)

Sarah Crossan previews BREATHE (HarperCollins/October 2, 2012)

Rachel Cohn previews BETA (Disney Hyperion/October 16, 2012)

Melissa West previews GRAVITY (Entangled/October 16, 2012)

Genn Albin previews CREWEL (FSG/October 16, 2012)

Antony John previews ELEMENTALS (Penguin/November 8, 2012)

Elizabeth Richards previews BLACK CITY (Penguin/November 13, 2012)

JA Souders previews RENEGADE (Tor/November 13, 2012)

Kassy Taylor previews ASHES OF TWILIGHT (St. Martins Press/November 13, 2012)

Alexandra Bracken previews THE DARKEST MINDS (Hyperion/December 18, 2012)

Lenore Appelhans previews LEVEL 2 (Simon & Schuster BFYR/Fall 2012)

Steven dos Santos previews THE CULLING (formerly THE TORCH KEEPER) (Flux/Early 2013)

Emma Pass previews ACID (Random House/Early 2013)

Joelle Charbonneau previews THE TESTING (HMH/Spring 2013)

Emma Trevayne previews CODA (Running Press/Spring 2013)

Lydia Y Kang previews THE FOUNTAIN (Penguin/Summer 2013)

Mindy McGinnis previews NOT A DROP TO DRINK (HarperCollins/Fall 2013)

Demitria Lunetta previews IN THE AFTER (HarperTeen/2013)

Suzanne Young previews THE PROGRAM (Simon & Schuster/2013)

Erin Bowman previews TAKEN (HarperCollins/2013)

Jordana Frankel previews THE WARD (HarperCollins/2013)

Some other upcoming titles: (links lead to listing at Goodreads)

S.D. Crockett’s AFTER THE SNOW (Feiwel and Friends/March 27, 2012)

Gemma Malley's THE KILLABLES (Hodder UK/March 29, 2012)

Karen Thompson’s Walker’s THE AGE OF MIRACLES (Random House/June 26, 2012)

Lisa Stasse's THE FORSAKEN (Simon & Schuster/July 10, 2012)

Bethany Pinnell's STUNG (Walker/2012)

Elsie Chapman's DUALED (Random House/March 2013)

Tom Isbell's THE HATCHERY (HarperCollins/2013)

Amy Tintera's REBOOT (HarperTeen/2013)

Peter Lerangis' PERFECT (Egmont/2013) 

Josin L. McQuein's ARCLIGHT  (HarperCollins/2013)

C. Alexander London's debut PROXY, about two boys from opposite ends of a society where the poor are paid to take punishments for the rich, and the conspiracy which engulfs them both. Penguin

DARK LIFE author Kat Falls's THE FETCH, a dystopian romance trilogy set in a future where the U.S. has been divided by a wall separating the civilized West from the disease-ravaged East - now called the Savage Zone - in which a 16-year-old must leave everyone she loves behind to enter the frightening Savage Zone, where she meets a mysterious boy who's not all that he seems to be. Scholastic/Fall 2012

Sara Grant's HALF LIVES, a dystopian chronicle of the journeys of two unlikely heroes in their race against time to save future generations. Little Brown/Fall 2012

Chris Howard's debut THE TREE CATCHER, a smart futuristic Huck Finn about a teen who builds trees out of scrap metal for rich patrons until a mysterious girl shows him a polaroid of the legendary last trees on earth, and he sets out in a deadly race against time to find them in this upside down old-west, post-apocalyptic, gypsy-rasta world of killers, pirates, poachers, and opportunists.

Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam's ELUSION, pitched as an "Inception"-type futuristic thriller series about three teenagers attempting to solve a mystery with serious personal stakes that leads them inside an alternate reality game that transports users to dangerously seductive Utopian world. 

Melanie Crowder's PARCHED, an eco-fable set in a near future shaped by water wars and following three very different characters in a struggle for survival in their parched land.   (HMH/2013)  

Keep up to date with all the latest titles at Amy Sturgis' master list of YA dystopias

Are there any I missed? Let me know in the comments and I'll edit them in!