Delirium by Lauren Oliver

What if falling in love was the most dangerous crime you could commit?

Lauren Oliver’s New York Times bestselling novel Delirium plunges you into a chillingly recognizable America where love itself has been declared a disease—amor deliria nervosa—and the government mandates a “cure” at eighteen. It’s a world as stark and terrifying as Orwell’s 1984, but with a heart that beats as fiercely as Romeo and Juliet.

Lena Haloway is counting down the ninety-five days until her procedure. She’s seen what love did to her mother, and she wants nothing more than the safety of a predictable, emotion-free life in Portland, Maine. But then she meets Alex—a boy from the Wilds who lives outside the government’s iron grip—and everything she’s been taught begins to unravel.

This is the book that will keep you up past midnight, turning pages by the glow of your bedside lamp, heart racing as Lena faces an impossible choice. Oliver’s prose is both lyrical and urgent, painting a dystopian landscape that feels uncomfortably close to our own world while delivering a romance that burns with quiet defiance.

Named an Amazon Best Book and a USA Today Bestseller, Delirium earned starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal and was selected as one of NPR’s Top 100 Best Ever Teen Novels. It’s the kind of story that lingers long after you’ve turned the final page—a fierce reminder that some things are worth fighting for, even in a world determined to take them away.

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