Matched

In the Society, every choice is optimized and made for you: what you eat, the work you'll do, when you'll die — and, at seventeen, the person you'll marry. When Cassia Reyes attends her Matching ceremony, she is thrilled to be paired with Xander, her lifelong best friend. But when she looks at the data card meant to tell her about him, another boy's face flashes on the screen for an instant: Ky Markham, a quiet outsider she barely knows.

That glitch — or is it? — cracks open Cassia's faith in the Society's perfect order. As she is drawn toward Ky and the forbidden feelings he stirs, she begins to question how much of her life has ever truly been hers to choose, and what it might cost to want something the Society did not assign.

Ally Condie's Matched is the first book in a bestselling young adult dystopian trilogy — a quiet, romantic story about individuality, control, and the quiet rebellion of choosing for yourself.