Lauren Oliver's powerful <i>New York Times</i> bestselling novel <i>Delirium</i>&#8212;the first in a dystopian trilogy&#8212;presents a world as terrifying as George Orwell's 1984 and a romance as true as <i>Romeo &amp; Juliet</i>.<br>In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistakes.<br>But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the Wilds who lives under the government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?<br><i><br>Delirium</i> received starred reviews from <i>Kirkus</i> and <i>School Library Journal</i>, and was named a Best Book of the Year by <i>USA Today</i>, <i>Kirkus</i>, Amazon.com, YALSA, and the Chicago Public Library and was selected as one of NPR's Top 100 Best Ever Teen Novels.

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