Start with high-confidence environmental ya books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Divergent
Veronica Roth
Allegiant
Salvage
Alexandra Duncan, Johanna Parker
Divergent Series Ultimate Four-book Collection
Orleans
Sherri L. Smith
Aquifer
Jonathan Friesen
The Tear Collector
R. M. Romero
The Scorch Trials
James Dashner
The Islands at the End of the World
Austin Aslan
Ruthless River
Holly FitzGerald, Holly Conklin FitzGerald
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games Trilogy
Monument 14
Emmy Laybourne
Snowflake, AZ
Marcus Sedgwick
Two Degrees
Alan Gratz
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Dry
Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
The Crossing
Mandy Hager
Knee Deep Book One
Joe Flood
Sunrise on the Reaping: Collector's Gift Edition (the Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Jefferson White
Anzuelo
Emma Ríos