This book will fly through your brain as though your eyeballs have magically discovered a way to project a movie that is directly translated from words on a page. The Maze Runner is perfect for someone who loves to read but doesn't like to be reminded by long words and difficult premises that they're reading. This book has everything: action, adventure, hybrid monsters called Grievers that resemble a cross between boogers and the Terminator, and even a budding romance. The best part of a series, after all, is that you can delay the my-book-is-over-how-is-the-world-still-spinning depression that sets in after a particularly good read is over.

(See the list here.) It was such a success, in fact, that it is now the first of a five-book series, so if you like it, get excited for four more. Based on its wild reception, we can safely say he succeeded: it was a Top 10 New York Times National Bestseller for over 14 weeks and it won more Young Adult book awards than you can shake a stick at.

Well, that's what happens to our protagonist Thomas in The Maze Runner, written by James Dashner and published in 2009.ĭescribed as ' Lord of the Flies meets Ender's Game meets Holes' by Dashner himself, The Maze Runner is Dashner's first attempt at conquering a national market with his writing. Ever had a really rough morning where you wake up in a dingy elevator and can't remember how you got there, or anything else? And then you find yourself in a fight for your life during a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future?

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