EC-Utopian/Dystopian Fiction Riddles

Which book am I?

I start with a girl who volunteers as brave,
To take her sister’s place in a televised grave.
Arrows, rebellion, fire, and flame—
The Capitol will remember my name.

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

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Which book am I?

In my maze there’s no end in sight,
Boys wake with no past but endless fright.
Monsters roam, walls close tight—
Solve me before the deadly night.

• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

• The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

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Which book am I?

In a world without books, flames are delight,
Firemen burn instead of fight.
A rebel reader sparks the blaze—
Censorship ends in a fiery haze.

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

• The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

• Insurgent by Veronica Roth

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My city gleams, no hunger, no crime,
But no one remembers another time.
A girl uncovers the rot inside—
Perfection is something the leaders hide.

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

• The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

• Cinder by Marissa Meyer

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

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Which book am I?

My story begins when I see a plane,
Then rules, numbers, and feelings restrain.
One boy, one elder, memories to give—
What am I, where sameness cannot live?

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Scythe by Neal Shusterman

• Delirium by Lauren Oliver

• The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

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We conquered death and quieted pain,
But gleaners choose who won’t remain.
If no one dies, what’s life for?
Two apprentices learn the score.

• Scythe by Neal Shusterman

• Unwind by Neal Shusterman

• Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Which book am I?

They’ll take your parts, not your say,
“Unwound” teens priced and sent away.
Identity is more than limbs—
Who am I when the light grows dim?

• Unwind by Neal Shusterman

• Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

• Feed by M.T. Anderson

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Which book am I?

Bottled happiness and lab-made birth,
Pleasure’s king on a managed earth.
When one misfits the perfect plan,
What price is paid to be a man?

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• 1984 by George Orwell

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

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Which book am I?

Truth is treason, love is crime,
A boot on necks for all of time.
He writes, remembers, risks it all—
Who fights Big Brother’s awful thrall?

• 1984 by George Orwell

• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

• Unwind by Neal Shusterman

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Which book am I?

A blue-dyed world that values skill,
A weaver learns a crueler will.
A village tests what broken means—
Can kindness mend the in-betweens?

• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

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