What does Lena, identical twins- Melody and Harmony, Cassia, and Amy all have in common? Its being a teenage girl and dealing with the drama in trying to live in these grim, futuristic societies.  Katniss Everdeen got the ball rolling as the leading lady in Suzanne Collin's bestseller, the Hunger Games. Now here are a few other ladies who face the challenges of living in these futuristic worlds of bias societies, destruction and crazy government control. If you can't get your hands on these books, some are available as free ebooks and audio books thru Overdrive.

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Can love make you delirious? Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

Bumped by Megan McCafferty
To be a prize member of society, all you have to do is be a teenage girl and able to conceive a child. Sounds interesting?  In 2036 New Jersey, when teens are expected to become fanatically religious wives and mothers or high-priced surrogates for couples made infertile by a widespread virus, sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony find in one another, not just DNA, but the courage to believe they have choices.

Matched by Allyson Condie

All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?  Like, seriously awkward?

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, 300 years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end 50 years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone - one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship - tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next. Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.