For the electronic design routing method, see Maze Runner. For the film based on the book, see The Maze Runner (film).
For other uses, see The Maze Runner (disambiguation).
The Maze Runner
2009 edition cover
Author
James Dashner
Cover artist
Philip Straub
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
The Maze Runner series
Genre
Young adult, science fiction, post-apocalyptic
Published
October 6, 2009
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Media type
Print (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
Pages
375 pp.[1]
ISBN
978-0-385-73794-4 (first edition, hardcover)
OCLC
299381315
LC Class
PZ7.D2587Maz 2009[1]
Preceded by
The Fever Code (in narrative order)
Followed by
The Scorch Trials[2]
The Maze Runner is a 2009 dystopian novel by American author James Dashner. It takes place in a world suffering from a coronal mass ejection and whose surviving civilians fight to avoid an apocalyptic illness called the Flare. It is written from the perspective of Thomas, a 16-year-old boy who wakes up with no memories inside an artificially produced maze but who is also the key to his friends’ salvation. An organization called WICKED controls the world politically seeks a cure to the Flare and uses the youngest generation of civilians who are immune as test subjects.
The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. It won the All Library Association Young Adult Library Services Association Best Fiction for Young Adults Book award in 2011,[3] is a #1 NYT Bestselling series and was on the #1 NYT Bestseller list for 148 weeks,[4] and a Kirkus Reviews Teen Book of the Year. Moreover, The Maze Runner is a popular pick of educators teaching middle-age readers in schools.
The novel was published in 2009 by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House with cover art by Philip Straub. The Maze Runner is the first novel in The Maze Runner series, followed by The Scorch Trials (2010), and The Death Cure (2011). A film adaptation, directed by Wes Ball, was released in 2014 by 20th Century Fox and stars Dylan O’Brien as Thomas.
^ ab"The maze runner" (first edition). LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 13 November 2016.
^Shill, Aaron (25 November 2009). "'Maze Runner' on 'right track'". Deseret Morning News. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
^2011 Best Fiction for Young Adults. December 27, 2010.The Young Adult Library Services Association. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
^Children's Series. August 23, 2015. The New York Times. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
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