Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Kicking off the new year with a dystopian teen novel about a future America where there is no disease, everyone has everything they need, and no one goes hungry. Sounds great, right? Well, everything has a price. With medical advances and a system that has people who have accidents going to revival centers coming out good as new a few days later...it creates a whole lot of people living, and not so many dying. So the world came up with scythes. These are special people who are trained, and become for life, someone who goes out and "gleans" people. Gleaning is another word for killing, murdering, finishing someone off. When a scythe shows up at your door, your life is over. Some scythes use statistics to decide who will die, others take a random approach. Each scythe must glean approximately 250 people a year, which equals about 5 million people world wide. Not nearly enough people as those who died from disease, accidents, ...