Hunger Games Read-alikes

The Hunger Games is the biggest thing to hit teen fiction since Twilight. But that’s where any comparison ends. The Hunger Games is page-turning dystopian fiction at its best, and has been consistently checked out pretty much since its debut in 2008. Not only is it popular, but its also critically acclaimed and is listed as both an Alex Award winner (best adult books for young adults) and one of  Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Books of 2008. Whether you plan on seeing the movie or read the book, we have some other dystopian titles to check out.

Alison likes the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld. They have to survive in the wild, "off the grid" and are opposing the government status quo.

For a younger audience, Gia suggests the Tripod trilogy by John Christopher, where giant tripods land on earth and use a TV show to take over minds.

A book that takes wired in to the Internet to the nth degree is M.T. Anderson’s Feed —people have a feed of information built in to their brains!

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is a dystopian novel with plenty of action. Imagine a world where all your thoughts are heard by everyone else and you’ll understand the world Todd was born into.

Ian found Brave New World by Aldous Huxley the most terrifying dystopian novel he has ever read. In Huxley's future world humanity lives in a rigid caste system where one's place in society is determined at birth. This is what makes Huxley future truly insidious, for how can one rebel against authority when they are bred to conform to it? Moreover this book's subject matter continues to be relevant today, for advances in both technology and our understanding of genetics makes Huxley's vision even more plausible than at the time it was written.

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