Welcome to the latest edition of Looks from Books, which aims to prove that you can look smart, while still being book-smart, too. Fashion inspiration can be found between the pages of your favorite stories, on well-designed book covers, and in your favorite maze runner outfits characters… if you read closely enough.

This week, we’re taking inspiration from a recent movie release that thrilled fans of dystopian worlds long before it hit the big screen. Here’s James Dashner’s The Maze Runner! 

James Dashner’s The Maze Runner || Photo via Amazon

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The Maze Runner is a young adult sci-fi dystopian novel, written by James Dashner and published in 2007.

The novel follows Thomas, a teenage boy with no memories, except for that of his name, as he awakens in a mysterious community called “The Glade,” at the heart of an expansive maze. Filled with moving walls and treacherous beings called “Grievers,” the maze has served as the home for other boys in the same situation as Thomas, some of whom have already been there for two years.

Governed by the rules they follow to survive, they live in fear of what lurks in the maze, beyond the walls of the Glade… until one day, when everything changes with the arrival of the enigmatic Teresa, who has an inexplicable tie to Thomas.

The book is the first of its series and was followed by The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure. The latest installment in the series was a 2012 prequel, The Kill Order, and an accompanying title, The Maze Runner Files, was released in 2013.

The series has enjoyed positive critical reviews since its original publication, and after the announcement of the film adaptation, the series has spent several weeks on various best-seller lists once again.