The Maze Runner

Its place in The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner is book 1 in the The Maze Runner series. It is followed by The Scorch Trials. See the full The Maze Runner reading order.

Thomas wakes up in a rising metal box with no memory except his own name, surrounded by dozens of other boys who've been living inside the Glade — a walled-off refuge at the center of a vast, shifting, monster-patrolled Maze. Every boy arrived the same way, one per month, with no way out except solving a labyrinth that rearranges itself nightly and kills anyone it catches. Thomas's arrival breaks the group's fragile routine: the next day a girl shows up, the first ever, carrying a note that says everything is…