The Maze Runner
A boy arrives in a box with no memory of his name. The maze around him changes every night. Something inside it kills.
No Memory, No Exit
James Dashner's 2009 novel opens as Thomas wakes inside an elevator that deposits him in the Glade, a clearing surrounded by towering stone walls. Inside live dozens of boys with no memory of the outside world, organised into a functioning community with one obsession: solving the maze that surrounds them. Runners venture in daily to map it. Nobody has ever survived a night inside. When Thomas arrives, the maze begins changing and the walls between everything they know start to come down.
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"WICKED is good.
"James Dashner · The Maze Runner
Dashner wrote the novel after conceiving the image of a boy waking in a box with no memory and decided to build backward from that image to its cause. He has said he did not know what WICKED was when he started writing.
The 2014 film adaptation starring Dylan O'Brien earned over 348 million dollars on a 34 million dollar budget and spawned two sequels. The franchise introduced dystopian YA fiction to audiences who had finished The Hunger Games.