Del Rey (Random House)

While Brown is currently working on a second trilogy that follows where the first one ends, the first three books in the Red Rising trilogy hold up amazingly well on their own. They follow the story of Darrow, a lowborn "Red" who works in the dangerous mines of a futuristic inhabited Mars. Their world is run by "Golds" — beautiful, rich, and powerful beings. When tragedy strikes Darrow's family, he finds himself mixed up in a rebellious uprising of "lowcolors," keen on bringing down the reign of the Golds. Darrow is forced to go undercover to bring his tormenters down from the inside. But he finds that not all of the Golds he meets are necessarily enemies, and with a new face and body of a Gold, he struggles to remember his true identity and why he set out on this dangerous mission in the first place.

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