7 Best science fiction books like Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1) by Caragh M. O'Brien

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Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

By: Caragh M. O'Brien

3.88

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the walled En…

"When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it."

-Caragh M. O'Brien, Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

"When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it."

-Caragh M. O'Brien, Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

"What happened to your face?' he asked. 'When I was little, my grandmother was making candles and she had a big vat of hot beeswax in the backyard,' she said. 'I walked into the vat.' Usually that ended the conversation. 'I don't remember it,' she added. 'How old were you?' he asked. She tilted her face slightly, watching him. 'Ten months.' 'You were walking at ten months?' he asked. 'Not very well, apparently,' she said dryly."

-Caragh M. O'Brien, Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

"What happened to your face?' he asked. 'When I was little, my grandmother was making candles and she had a big vat of hot beeswax in the backyard,' she said. 'I walked into the vat.' Usually that ended the conversation. 'I don't remember it,' she added. 'How old were you?' he asked. She tilted her face slightly, watching him. 'Ten months.' 'You were walking at ten months?' he asked. 'Not very well, apparently,' she said dryly."

-Caragh M. O'Brien, Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

If you liked the science fiction plot in Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1) by Caragh M. O'Brien , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

By: Megan Shepherd

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London — working as a maid, attendin… read more

Similar categories in Megan Shepherd's The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1) book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"He was a survivor, like me"

-Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

"Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen."

-Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

"The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's."

-Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

"Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me. I was my father's daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things."

-Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

Cover of Defiance (Defiance, #1) by C.J. Redwine

2. Defiance (Defiance, #1)

By: C.J. Redwine

3.67

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

While the other girls in the walled city-state of Baalboden learn to sew and dance, Rachel Adams le… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Redwine's Defiance (Defiance, #1) book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • romance
  • post apocalyptic
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Mind over matter. Reason over pain."

-C.J. Redwine, Defiance (Defiance, #1)

"His knives are nice. Mine is better."

-C.J. Redwine, Defiance (Defiance, #1)

"Please tell me you're not that stupid. Rachel to Melkin"

-C.J. Redwine, Defiance (Defiance, #1)

"Losing your head in a crisis is a good way to become the crisis."

-C.J. Redwine, Defiance (Defiance, #1)

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3. This Song Will Save Your Life

By: Leila Sales

3.90

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Making friends has never been Elise Dembowski’s strong suit. All throughout her life, she’s been th… read more

Similar categories in Leila Sales's This Song Will Save Your Life book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"We all want things that aren't good for us."

-Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

"Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you."

-Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

"Anyone who said I believe in you obviously didn't know me very well."

-Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

"I feel sometimes like … there are all these rules. Just to be a person"

-Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

Cover of Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1) by Scott Westerfeld

4. Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)

By: Scott Westerfeld

3.72

Format: 599 pages, Hardcover

BELIEVING IS DANGEROUS... Darcy Patel is afraid to believe all the hype. But it's really happeni… read more

Similar categories in Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1) book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"The universe is math on fire."

-Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)

"But books don't happen by accident."

-Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)

"The best way to know a city is to eat it."

-Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)

"But doesn’t real love work the other way round?"

-Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)

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5. The Pledge (The Pledge, #1)

By: Kimberly Derting

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

In the violent country of Ludania, the classes are strictly divided by the language they speak. The… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Derting's The Pledge (The Pledge, #1) book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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6. Radiant Shadows (Wicked Lovely, #4)

By: Melissa Marr

5.00

Format: None pages,

Hunger for nourishment. Hunger for touch. Hunger to belong. Half-human and half-faery, Ani is drive… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Marr's Radiant Shadows (Wicked Lovely, #4) book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Deception (Defiance, #2) by C.J. Redwine

7. Deception (Defiance, #2)

By: C.J. Redwine

3.92

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Baalboden has been ravaged. The brutal Commander's whereabouts are unknown. And Rachel, grief stric… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Redwine's Deception (Defiance, #2) book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • romance
  • post apocalyptic
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Answering a question with a question is simply a way to gain enough time to think of a plausible lie."

-C.J. Redwine, Deception (Defiance, #2)

"Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting that they'll use it to heal you instead."

-C.J. Redwine, Deception (Defiance, #2)

"Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive."

-C.J. Redwine, Deception (Defiance, #2)

"Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human."

-C.J. Redwine, Deception (Defiance, #2)

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8. Twenty Boy Summer

By: Sarah Ockler

3.88

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

"Don’t worry, Anna. I’ll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it." "Okay." … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ockler's Twenty Boy Summer book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"Anna, you miss him."

-Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

"It's rally bad when dads cry."

-Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

"How can you say it was all a lie?"

-Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

"The late-night backyard encounter and kiss induced insomnia."

-Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

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9. Grasshopper Jungle

By: Andrew Smith

3.50

Format: 93 pages,

Sixteen-year-old Austin Szerba interweaves the story of his Polish legacy with the story of how he … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Smith's Grasshopper Jungle book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
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10. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • teen
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

11. Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)

By: Lauren DeStefano

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this gen… read more

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12. Bewitching (Kendra Chronicles, #2)

By: Alex Flinn

2.50

Format: 52 pages, Hardcover

Bewitching can be a beast. . . . Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. Tha… read more

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13. Dare You To (Pushing the Limits, #2)

By: Katie McGarry

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Ryan lowers his lips to my ear. "Dance with me, Beth." "No." I whisper the reply. I hate him and I … read more

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14. Pure (Pure, #1)

By: Julianna Baggott

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or mu… read more

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15. Horde (Razorland, #3)

By: Ann Aguirre

4.23

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The epic conclusion to the USA Todaybestselling trilogy. The horde is coming. Salvation is surround… read more

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16. Outpost (Razorland, #2)

By: Ann Aguirre

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Deuce's whole world has changed. Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town ca… read more

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Cover of Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1) by Caragh M. O'Brien

17. Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

By: Caragh M. O'Brien

3.88

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the walled En… read more

Similar categories in Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1) book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

  • romance
  • survival
  • post apocalyptic
  • teen
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it."

-Caragh M. O'Brien, Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

"What happened to your face?' he asked. 'When I was little, my grandmother was making candles and she had a big vat of hot beeswax in the backyard,' she said. 'I walked into the vat.' Usually that end…"

-Caragh M. O'Brien, Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

18. Leaving Paradise (Leaving Paradise, #1)

By: Simone Elkeles

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel, and hit Magg… read more

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19. Enclave (Razorland, #1)

By: Ann Aguirre

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underg… read more

Similar categories in Ann Aguirre's Enclave (Razorland, #1) book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

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20. His Forefathers and Mick

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.36

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

"His forefathers and Mick", traces the riveting saga of the Kramer family across three tumultuous g… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's His Forefathers and Mick book and Caragh M. O'Brien's Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

"Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has  been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern."

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

Cover of Honor Lost (The Honors, #3) by Rachel Caine

21. Honor Lost (The Honors, #3)

By: Rachel Caine

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Space renegade Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller—a creature that can devour enti… read more

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  • romance
  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

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