Matched
In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.
Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s barely any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one... until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow — between perfection and passion.
Ally Condie
In a world of rules and quiet rebellion, Ally Condie found her voice by asking one of the most haunting questions in young adult literature: What if the system chose everything for you—including who you love? With her Matched trilogy, she invited readers into a society of eerie perfection, where poetry is contraband and choice is the ultimate act of defiance.
Raised in Cedar City, Utah, Condie didn’t always dream of dystopias. Before her novels landed on bestseller lists and sparked global conversations about autonomy and identity, she was a high school English teacher—something that deeply shaped her intuitive understanding of young minds and their emotional landscapes. Her writing doesn't talk down to teens; it listens. It wonders. It gives space to the questions they’re already asking.
Matched Trilogy
Matched Trilogy consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.