The Hunger Games

author:	Suzanne Collins (2008)
series:	The Hunger Games #1
date read:	2012-09-01
pages:	374
lists:	ya
rating:	★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Cover of The Hunger Games.

Preferable when compared to Twilight. Can hardly be blamed for starting the whole YA dystopia trend, but I’m blaming it nevertheless.

Cover of Battle Royale.

Battle Royale

by Koushun Takami · published 1999 · read 2018-09-27

★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

So you like children fighting one another for their lives?

Cover of Lord of the Flies.

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding · published 1954 · read 2017-05-15

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

I heard you liked children fighting each other.

Cover of Red Rising.

Red Rising

by Pierce Brown · published 2014 · read 2017-07-13

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

More dystopian teenagers trying to kill one another.

Cover of Never Let Me Go.

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro · published 2005 · read 2020-01-25

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

More teenagers who have their whole life planned out for them in a dystopia.

Cover of Die Vernichteten.

Die Vernichteten

by Ursula Poznanski · published 2014 · read 2017-01-11

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

German YA with a similar setup, but less blatant worldbuilding.

Cover of Divergent.

Divergent

by Veronica Roth · published 2011 · read 2016-10-11

★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Hunger Games knock-off.

1984

by George Orwell · published 1949 · read 2010-02-01

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

If you want to lean into the dystopia.

Cover of Twilight.

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer · published 2005 · read 2008-10-01

★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

The other book vying for teenagers at the time. You usually were into one or the other.

Cover of Catching Fire.

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins · published 2009 · read 2012-08-01

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The next book in the series.