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Books like The Hunger Games?



@Brookreed By Wariors: The Darkest Hour do you mean that series about cats, like Fire and Ice and Into the Wild?
What's The Giver about?


@Brookreed By Wariors: The Darkest Hour do ..."
The giver is about the future where everything is controlled. They are different villages but they stay to themselves. The Main Character, Jonah, lives in a village where sameness is practiced. That is when everything is the same. Everyone has the same birthday, and depending on your age group you get a new stage of life. When you turn twelve you get a job that you will have until you are an elder. the leaders pick your job for you based on what you've portrayed before "the birthday". Jonah is picked to be the reciever who recieves memories of the world before the village came to arise and before sameness. He is allowed to lie because he is not allowed to tell what he is learned in training. But the knowledge doesn't always sit right and the book tells about how he deals with the memories

1. Teens are placed into a glade with their memory wiped and struggle to find their way out by venturing into the maze that borders their glade. Instead of fighting each other, they're fighting against hybrid machine/beast creations.
2. They're being observed from the outside by the Maze "creators." (similar to being observed in the games)
The Gone series is another good recommendation, but the writing style is quite a bit different than Collins' style, so it takes a few chapters to get into.

The Uglies Trilogy


yeah.. thats it. it isnt really that clean, I kinda got sick of reading cuss words constantly so I havent finished it.
Maze runner ROCKS! cant wait for the next book. unwind is really good to, its a weird read.
and lord of the flies is like the same thing... kids left to themselves who start to kill eachothe off. I am doing a school paper camparing HG and LoF.
and yes, I love the Gone series too!!1 =)


percy jackson was good... kinda a low reading level. I did NOT like Red Pyrimid... it was really boring.

I can not recommend these too highly. Brilliant, exciting, far future steampunk/sci-fi/adventure. A really great writer. Phillip Reeve...
Philip Reeve
Fever Crumb
A Web of Air
Mortal Engines
Predator's Gold
Infernal Devices
A Darkling Plain

Every person over the age of 15 disappears and the kids are trapped in their home town, which gets nicknamed the FAZE, and have to learn to cope without adults and survive, as well as deal with the fact that some of them seem to have gained weird powers.
It's the first in a six part series, it's really good.
I LOVED Red Pyramid, and Percy Jackson. The Uglies series is okay, I liked Uglies, Pretties was Okay, loved Zane hough. Haven't bothered to read the rest.

there are a lot of gone books tho... i was looking up the author (he is a goodreads author) and there was at least like 5 names. so are they all out yet or has he just named them? (after plague there is number 5 and I know 6 is called light. )





The Hunger Games sounds like "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
Both of these (similar storylines) novels are not happy or uplifting however, so if you're looking for something to make you feel hopeful (or at least held in suspense), I can't recommend them. They're not YA books.

well don't they do that for other books too :)

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wow I only knew up to plague

I want to read that. Is it good?

also I just remembered... there is a book called girl in the arena which is sorta like the hunger games, but i really didnt like it. It got really boring.


Girl in The Arena right?
Books mentioned in this topic
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (other topics)The Giver (other topics)
1984 (other topics)
Lord of the Flies (other topics)
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If you can, please could you post the name, the author and why it's like The Hunger Games.
I'll give mine: The Long Walk by Stephen King
It's about 100 teens who have to keep walking above 4 mph till all except one are dead. Like THG there's alot of deaths and some likeable characters, maybe not as gripping but definitely worth a read for anyone who liked the whole idea of a game where one person has to try and survive...