Red Rising by Pierce Brown was originally released in 2014 and saw immense success from the start, as every book in the series so far has been a New York Times Bestseller. The ambitious science-fiction novel focuses on a dystopian society where humanity has essentially colonized the Solar System, running society of color codes, where Golds rule and Reds find themselves at the bottom. Red Rising, and the series in general, follows a lowborn miner, Darrow, who infiltrates the Golds’ ranks.