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Replica by Lauren Oliver

On one side, a girl raised inside a secretive research facility. On the other, a curious outsider searching for the truth behind a mysterious program. When their paths collide, the lies surrounding identity, memory, and power begin to crack open. Replica invites you to read from either perspective and piece together a chilling mystery that won’t let go.

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... unconventional, playfully structured YA sci‑fi where form itself carries key clues?

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

If the flip‑book, dual reading experience of Replica hooked you, you’ll love how Illuminae tells its story through hacked emails, interviews, IMs, and AI redactions. Where Lyra and Gemma’s mirrored narratives let structure shape truth, Kady and Ezra’s scattered files force you to piece together a cover‑up as chilling as the secrets at Haven—right down to a rogue intelligence that twists the record the way Haven’s handlers twist the girls’ lives.

... two protagonists whose alternating perspectives reshape your understanding of the same events?

Legend by Marie Lu

In Replica, seeing the same night—Haven’s explosion, the flight with Lyra and Caelum, Gemma’s discoveries—through both Lyra’s and Gemma’s eyes changes everything. Legend uses that same electricity: Day and June alternate chapters, each revealing a different side of the Republic’s lies, so every reveal recontextualizes the last—much like how Lyra’s escape and Gemma’s investigation keep reframing each other.

... clones grappling with personhood, memory, and what makes a self?

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

If Lyra’s dawning awareness—learning she’s more than a numbered "replica," forging a bond with Caelum, and questioning the fate Haven planned for her—moved you, Never Let Me Go will hit just as hard. Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy grow up in a school with a purpose as chilling as Haven’s, and their quiet, heartbreaking search for meaning and love echoes Lyra’s fight to define herself beyond the lab’s labels.

... the bioethical unease of authorities treating teens’ bodies as resources to control?

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Haven’s project turns kids like Lyra into assets, with adults deciding what a "replica" is worth. Unwind pushes that same moral pressure to the breaking point: when Connor, Risa, and Lev are marked to be "unwound," the system literally partitions their bodies for parts. If you were compelled by Replica’s questions about who gets to play god—and who pays the price—this will keep you up late turning pages.

... a teen unraveling a dangerous scientific conspiracy hidden inside a sealed facility?

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Gemma’s digging into Haven—and the revelation that her parents are entangled in its experiments—parallels Amy’s investigation aboard the spaceship Godspeed. Like the institute’s secrets after the explosion that throws Lyra and Caelum into the world, Godspeed hides manipulated records, altered medicine, and a leader who decides who gets to know the truth. If you loved the uncovering of Haven’s lies, this mystery will scratch the same itch.

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