The Hunger Games Readalikes

The Hunger Games Readalikes
What did you like about The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins? Overcoming incredible odds to survive in a harsh
world? Triumphing over the powerful few who hold the destinies of the many in their hands? Dystopic visions of the
world to come? Try these titles to feed your “hunger” for exciting, futuristic tales of survival:

             The Diary Of Pelly D. by L. J. Adlington (Y ADLINGT)

                     “This is the diary of Pelly D. It’s totally secret, so if you are reading it I hate you already. “
                     The notebook is wrapped in faded brown paper, sealed in a battered water can. Toni V, who
                     works on the City Five demolition crew, unearths it as he's drilling through concrete. He
                     shouldn't smuggle it back to his room, and he definitely shouldn't read it. But he does. What
                     happened to Pelly D? Toni V needs to know. He has only one clue: Dig—dig everywhere.
                     (Sequel: Cherry Heaven)

             Feed by M. T. Anderson (Y ANDERSO)

                     In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their
                     environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

             Candor by Pam Bachorz (Y BACHORZ)

                     The picture-perfect new town of Candor, Florida, is attracting more and more new families,
                     drawn by its postcard-like small-town feel, with white picket fences, spanking-new but old-
                     fashioned-looking homes, and neighborliness.
                     But the parents are drawn by something else as well. They know that in Candor their teenagers
                     will somehow become rewired - they'll become every parent's dream.

             Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (Y BACIGAL) and Audio book (CD)
                     In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts,
                     Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--
                     and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite
                     clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his
                     life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who
                     could lead him to a better life. . . .

             Exodus by Julie Bertagna (Y BERTAGN)
                     In a drowned world, can refuge be found? It’s the year 2100, and as the island of Wing is about
                     to be covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World sky cities
                     that are safe from the storms and rising waters. Does she have the vision and the will to lead
                     her people in search of a new beginning in this harsh, unfamiliar world?

             Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Y CASHORE) and Audio book (CD)
                     Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling,
                     one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be
                     able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the
                     king’s thug. (Prequel: Fire)

Matched by Ally Condie (Y CONDIE)
       All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to
       play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to
       Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things
       couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as
       well?

The Maze Runner by James Dashner (Y DASHNER)

       Teenage boys are deposited from a freight elevator into the middle of an enormous maze with
       no memory of their prior life or how they got there. One of the boys, 16-year-old Thomas,
       comes to a frightening understanding that he and the other boys must lock themselves in at
       night just to remain alive, and fight for their survival and a way to escape by day. (Sequel: The
       Scorch Trials)

The Silenced by James DeVita (Y DEVITA)

       In a world filled with sanctions and restrictions, Marena struggles to remember the past: a time
       before the Zero Tolerance Party murdered her mother and put her father under house arrest. A
       time before they installed listening devices in every home and forbade citizens to read or write.
       A time when she was free. Consigned to a prison-like Youth Training Facility because of her
       parents' political activities, Marena organizes a resistance movement—the White Rose.

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Y DOCTORO) and Audio Book (CD) and Playaway
       After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a
       major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into
       what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (J DUPRAU) and Audio Book (CD)

       In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run
       to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. The
       four Books of Ember tell the story of a city where it’s always dark. There’s no sun, no moon, no
       light at all unless the electricity is on. And the electricity is beginning to fail. (Sequels: The
       People of Sparks, The Diamond of Darkhold, The Prophet of Yonwood)

Dark Life by Kat Falls (Y FALLS)

       When 15-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the
       frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the
       government may pose an even greater threat.

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer and Audio Book (Playaway)
       In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El
       Patrón, the 140-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United
       States.

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (Y FISHER) and Audio Book (CD)
       To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of
       Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
       (Sequel: Sapphique)

Truancy by Isamu Fukui (Y FUKUI)
        In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control through education, 15-year-old
        Tack is torn between a growing sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement
        determined to bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a death caused by a
        Truant. (Prequel: Truancy Origins)

The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman (J GOODMAN)
        Born in the eighteenth year of Enclosure, ten-year-old Honor lives in a highly regulated colony
        with her defiant parents, but when they have an illegal second child and are taken away, it is up
        to Honor and her friend Helix, another "unpredictable," to uncover a terrible secret about their
        island and the corporation that runs everything.

Gone by Michael Grant (Y GRANT)
        In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of 14 suddenly disappears,
        setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private
        school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and
        those who do not. (Sequels: Hunger; Lies)

Girl in the Arena: a novel containing intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril by Lise Haines (Y
HAINES)

        All bets are off in this modern gladiator tale. Lyn’s seventh gladiator father dies in the arena.
        Now because of an obscure rule, Lyn will have to marry Uber, the same gladiator who killed her
        beloved father.

Nomansland by Lesley Hauge (Y HAUGE)

        Living under a strict code of conduct in an all-female community 500 years after the earth’s
        destruction, a sensitive teenaged girl raised to be a hunter discovers forbidden relics from the
        Time Before.

Rash by Pete Hautman (Y HAUTMAN) and Audio Book (CD)

        In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," 16-year-old Bo's anger
        control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills
        and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.

Epic by Conor Kostick (Y KOSTICK)

        On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades
        his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and
        safeguard the futures of each of their families. (Sequel: Saga)

The Declaration by Gemma Malley (Y MALLEY) and Audio Book (CD)

       In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged
       Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth
       parents are trying to find her. (Sequel: The Resistance)

The Unidentified by Rae Mariz (Y MARIZ)
       In a futuristic alternative school set in a shopping mall where video game-playing students are
       observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research, Katey "Kid" Dade struggles to
       figure out where she fits in and whether she even wants to.

Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden (Y MARSDEN)

       Returning from a camping trip in the Australian bush, Ellie and her six friends are shocked to
       learn that their country has been invaded and that everyone in their home town has been taken
       prisoner.

The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton (Y MCNAUGH)

       In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental conditions and one young woman,
       rescued from a workcamp and chosen for a special duty, uses her love of learning to discover
       the truth about the planet's future and her own dark past.

Trash by Andy Mulligan (Y MULLIGA)

In the not-so-distant future, three “dumpsite boys” make a living picking through the mountains of
garbage on the outskirts of a large city. One unlucky-lucky day, Raphael finds something very special
and very mysterious. So mysterious that he decides to keep it, even when the city police offer a
handsome reward for its return. That decision brings with it terrifying consequences, and soon the
dumpsite boys must use all of their cunning and courage to stay ahead of their pursuers.

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Y NESS)

Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, Todd and Viola set out across New World
searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful
settlers from the Old World. (Sequels: The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men)

Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien (Y OBRIEN)

In this future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those
who live outside it, 16-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her
parents are arrested and taken into the city.

Nation by Terry Pratchett (Y PRATCHET) and Audio Book (CD)

       After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and
       Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding
       their community and all the things that are important in their lives. This is a story about survival
       on many levels, and Pratchett pulls out all stops with his offbeat humor and broad vision.

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (Y REEVE)

      In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old
      apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the
      perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another. (Sequels: Predator’s Gold,
      Infernal Devices, A Darkling Plain)

Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Y SHUSTER)

       In a future world where those between the ages of 13 and 18 can have their lives "unwound"
       and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold
       their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (Y WESTERF) and Audio Book (CD)
       In an image-obsessed future in which every 16-year-old goes under the knife to become a
       "pretty," authorities threaten to withhold Tally’s cosmetic makeover unless she agrees to spy on
       a colony of rebel teens who defy the forced conformity and shallow concepts of beauty.
       (Sequels: Pretties, Specials, Extras)

Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 by Andrea White (Y WHITE)
       In the year 2083, five fourteen-year-olds who were deprived by chance of the opportunity to
       continue their educations, reenact Scott's 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole as contestants
       on a reality television show, secretly aided by a Department of Entertainment employee.

Storm Thief by Chris Wooding (Y WOODING)

        With the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos,
        where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the
        inhabitants.