Hunger+Games+Readalikes

If you liked //Hunger Games// by Suzanne Collins, you could read:

//**Feed**// by M.T. Anderson Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. For Titus and his friends, life has been completely normal as the feed tells them what to think, what to do and what to buy. Titus and his pals are off to the moon to party, but their feeds are hacked and they are sent to the hospital with nothing in their heads for days. Titus meets the brainy Violet, who tries to convince him that having a feed isn't everything he has been told. Following in the footsteps of //**A Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451,**// Anderson brings us a sharp satire on the future that is very similar to the world we live in right now.

//**Shipbreaker**// by Paolo Bacigalupi A fast-paced post apocalyptic adventure set in America's Gulf coast. Nailer works light crew; his dirty, dangerous job is to crawl deep into the wrecks of the ancient oil tankers that line the beach, scavenging copper wire and turning it over to his crew boss. They scrap the copper for money. After a hurricane passes over, Nailer and his friend Pima stumble upon the wreck of a luxurious clipper ship. It's filled with valuable goods—a "Lucky Strike" that could make them rich if they can safely cash it in. Amid the wreckage, a girl clings to life. If they help her, she tells them, she can show them a world of privilege that they have never known. Should Nailer trust this girl? Will she lead him to wealth or destruction?
 * Sequel: The Drowned Cities**

//**Beauty Queens **//by Libba Bray The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But, their airplane crashes on a desert island leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner.What's a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program - or wrestle snakes to the ground?

//**Matched**// by Ally Condie

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate. . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant.The Society tells her it's a glitch and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky...
 * Sequels: Crossed, Reached **

//**The Maze **//** Runner **by James Dashner

//If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. //When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. //Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. //Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive. //Everything is going to change. //Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5;">Remember. Survive. Run.
 * Sequels: Scorch Trials, The Death Cure Prequel: The Kill Order**

//**Little** **Brother**// by Cory Doctorow <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s surveillance systems.But his world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught up in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re interrogated for days.When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">//**City of Ember**// by Jeanne DuPrau

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she’s sure it holds a secret that will save the city. She and her friend Doon must decipher the message before the lights go out on Ember.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sequels: The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood, The Diamond of Darkhold **

//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The House of the ****<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Scorpion **//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> by Nancy Farmer

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested, a clone of El Patron. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium--a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself. As Matt struggles to understand who and what he is, he is threatened by a evil cast of characters and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive...
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sequel: The Lord of Opium **

//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Incarceron **//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> by Catherine Fisher

Incarceron is a futuristic prison and an artificial world—a living artificial world run by Incarceron, an <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[|artificial intelligence]. This tireless, inhuman "overlord" controls all life as it monitors inmates by means of cameras that appear as glowing red lights and dispenses punishment and death on a daily basis without mercy. Escape from Incarceron is a concept which few believe in, except those who insist that Sapphique, the legendary Sapient, has in fact achieved this very act.
 * Sequel: Sapphique **

//**The**// **Giver** by Lois Lowry <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Jonas's world is a utopia - everything is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth... Once he learns the truth, what will he do with it?
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sequels: Gathering Blue, Messenger, Son **

//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Legend **// by Marie Lu <span style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born intoone of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But, he is more of a Robin Hood than malicious criminal. From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking twist, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the lengths their country will go to keep its secret.
 * <span style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sequels: Prodigy, Champion **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sym Wates is fascinated with the Antarctic and the men who explored it, even to the point of creating an internal confidante in the form of Captain Lawrence "Titus" Oates, who was part of the doomed Scott expedition 90 years earlier. So when her "Uncle" Victor whisks the painfully shy, hearing-impaired teen away on a surprise trip to the South Pole, it seems like a dream come true. But Victor has his own agenda, seeking the legendary Symmes's Hole, portal to the interior of a hollow Earth. The lengths to which the madman pursues this quest provide the book with a dramatic drive and powerful revelations. -__SLJ__
 * //The White Darkness//** by Geraldine McCaughrean

//Ashfall// by Mike Mullen <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For Alex, being left alone for the weekend means having the freedom to play computer games and hang out with his friends without hassle from his mother. Then the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, plunging his hometown into a nightmare of darkness, ash, and violence. Alex begins a harrowing trek to seach for his family and finds help in Darla, a travel partner he meets along the way. Together they must find the strength and skills to survive and outlast an epic disaster. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sequels: Ashen Winter, Sunrise

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**//The Knife of Never Letting// Go** by Patrick Ness

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey... <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sequels: The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men

//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Life As We Knew It **// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">by Sue Beth Pfeffer

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">High school sophomore Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sequels: The Dead and The Gone (companion), This World We Live In, The Shade of the Moon

//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Across the Universe **// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">by Beth Revis

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Godspeed //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. She has left her boyfriend, friends--and planet--behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri-Earth, three hundred years in the future. But fifty years before //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Godspeed //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">'s scheduled landing, cryo chamber 42 is mysteriously unplugged, and Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sequels: A Million Suns, Shades of Earth

//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Divergent **// by Veronica Roth <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves. . . or it might destroy her. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sequels: Insurgent, Allegiant

//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Glow **// by Amy Kathleen Ryan <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fifteen-year-old Waverly, part of the first generation of children born in deep space after her world was destroyed, questions her upcoming marriage to Kieran even though she knows she must marry and have children young in order to help populate New Earth, and, after she is taken hostage by the leaders of a sister ship who want to rule the planet and separated from Kieran, she finds herself at the helm of a dangerous mission.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Unwind **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> by Neal Shusterman

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding." Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn’t “technically” end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound.With breathtaking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sequels: Unwholly, Unsouled

//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Uglies **// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">by Scott Westerfeld

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld ( //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0066c0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|Midnighters] //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties" are then free to play and party, while the younger "Uglies" look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances. She has yearned to be pretty, but since her best friend Shay ran away to the rumored rebel settlement of recalcitrant Uglies called The Smoke, Tally has been troubled. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Sequels: Pretties, Specials, Extras