If you tore through Anna and the boys’ breakout from the Branch’s farmhouse lab and the breathless road-chase that followed, you’ll click with the pulse of Variant. Benson’s transfer to a remote academy spirals into survival-mode when he discovers the school is a trap run by ruthless overseers—and the only way out is to outthink and outrun a system designed to break him. Like Anna dodging Branch operatives and safe houses, Benson races through twists, ambushes, and coded rules, with reveals that flip everything you think you know.

If Anna’s unraveling of who she is—beyond the fake father, fabricated files, and the Branch’s cover stories—hooked you, The Adoration of Jenna Fox will hit that same nerve. Waking after a coma, Jenna senses the story her parents tell doesn’t add up. As Anna pores over Trev’s notes and secret records to piece herself together, Jenna probes forbidden medical tech and hidden footage to learn what was done to her body—and what that makes her now.

If you were drawn to Anna and Sam’s fraught connection—trust built on scraps of memory while Branch agents close in—Unremembered gives you that same ache. A girl survives a plane crash with no memories, and a boy insists they share a past the world wants erased. Like Anna and Sam decoding who they were before the lab, this couple navigates assassins, secret programs, and painful truths as their chemistry sharpens into a choice that could cost them everything.

If tracking the Branch through scattered clues—Trev’s quotes, hidden files, and Anna’s scrambled past—was your favorite part, False Memory is a perfect follow-up. Miranda unleashes a panic attack that levels a mall, then learns she’s a genetically engineered operative whose memories were wiped. As Anna does with Sam, Cas, and Nick, Miranda teams with other altered teens to sift through planted memories and double-crosses to uncover the program that built—and betrayed—them.

If you loved the bond between Anna, Sam, Trev, Cas, and even prickly Nick—sniping at each other one moment, risking everything the next—The Darkest Minds delivers that found-family heartbeat. Ruby escapes a government camp and falls in with a small band of kids in a van, pooling talents to dodge raids and rescue their own. Like the farmhouse-team’s code names, inside jokes, and fractures under stress, Ruby’s group builds trust under fire, and those relationships hit just as hard as the action.