This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2009 by James Dashner
Cover art copyright © 2011 by Philip Straub
Cover typography by Joel Tippie

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Originally published in hardcover by Delacorte Press, New York, in 2009.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this work as follows:
Dashner, James.
The maze runner / James Dashner. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
ISBN 978-0-385-73794-4 (hc) — ISBN 978-0-385-90702-6 (glb) — ISBN 978-0-375-89377-3 (ebook)
[1. Amnesia—Fiction. 2. Cooperativeness—Fiction. 3. Labyrinths—Fiction. 4. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D2587Maz 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2009001345

ISBN 978-0-385-73795-1 (tr. pbk.)

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