Book Suggestions for People Who Love
The Hunger Games
Here I’ve listed a couple of young adult dystopian books which you might like or already have read if you like The Hunger Games. Maybe you like one of the listed books but not The Hunger Games?
Gone Series
~ by Michael Grant
The series is centered on the fictional Southern Californian town of Perdido Beach, in which every human aged 15 and older vanishes. Read more here.
Legend Series
~ by Marie Lu~
Legend is set in a future flooded, fortified Los Angeles, ruled by the totalitarian Republic. The novel centers around Day and June, two 15-year-olds on opposite sides of the economic spectrum. Read more here.
Divergent Trilogy
~ by Veronica Roth
The society of the trilogy defines its citizens by their social and personality-related affiliation with five different factions, which removes the threat of anyone exercising independent will and threatening the population’s safety. Read more here.
Matched Trilogy
~ by Ally Condie~
The novel is a dystopian young adult novel about a tightly-controlled society in which young people are “matched” with their life partners at the age of 17. Read more here.
The Fifth Wave
~ by Rick Yancey
The story follows 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of alien invasions that have decimated the Earth’s population. Read more here.
Uglies Series
~ by Scott Westerfeld
The first three novels focus on the exploits of Tally Youngblood. In the post-apocalyptic future society where Tally lives, teenagers, upon reaching their sixteenth birthday, undergo a surgery to mold them into a so-called “Pretty.” Read more here.
Suggested by @Littlefeets
Battle Royale
~by Koushun Takami
In the beginning of the 21st century, the economy of Japan is near total collapse, with high rates of unemployment and students boycotting their classes. The government approves the Battle Royale Act, where one class is randomly selected and the students are sent to an island where after three days, they have to kill each other and the survivor wins his or her own life as a prize.
Suggested by @LHT
Fire and flood
~by Victoria Scott
What would you do to save someone you love?
Time is slipping away. . . .
Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can’t determine what’s wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She’s lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying–and she’s helpless to change anything.
Suggested by @LHT
The Mortal Instruments
~ by Cassandra Clare
The Shadowhunters protect the world of mundane people, who are also called mundanes or “mundies”, from dark forces beyond their world. Read more here.
The maze runner
~ by James Dashner
A group of teenagers, who call themselves the “Gladers” are left in a strange place which they call the “Glade”. The Glade is surrounded by four doors, leading to the Maze, that close every night at sundown and open in the morning. Beyond the walls of the Glade is the ever-changing Maze, populated by horrifying, biomechanical creatures, called Grievers. Read more here.
Ender’s game
~ by Orson Scott Card
The series is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known formally as “Formics”, but more colloquially as “Buggers”. The series protagonist, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, is one of the child soldiers trained at Battle School (and eventually Command School) to be the future leaders for the protection of Earth. Read more here.
The host
~ by Stephenie Meyer
A species of parasitic aliens called “Souls” have invaded Earth, deeming the humans too violent to deserve the planet. When a Soul is implanted into a host body, the consciousness of the original owner is erased, leaving their memories and knowledge. Read more here.
- Have you read any of these books?
- Have you seen the film adaptations of any of these?
- What do you think about these books and/or genre?
- Do you have a favorite book out of these?
- Do you have a least favorite book out of these?
- Do you want to add any book to the list?
I went to goodreads and saw some mixed reviews. But I’ll add it to books I want to read.
I don’t remember the ending, I have the worst memory ever lol.
I think someone else on this thread liked the Maze Runner too. Might be imagining stuff though. I think it could be really interesting though!
