18 books like The Hunger Games

What to read after The Hunger Games — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Maze Runner James Dashner · 2009 · ★ 4.1 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Moderate When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he's not alone. When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade--a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · ★ 3.9 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to… Shares: Young Adult

Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell · 1949 · ★ 4.2 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and… Shares: Science Fiction

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. Shares: Community pick

Being Good Mollie Player · 2017 · 46p · ≈ 1h · Moderate In the year 2081, Francie lived in a small village called Gallitia. It was simple. It was peaceful. It was beautiful. But there was one problem. Francie couldn’t leave. Oh, and then there were the people that wanted to bring electricity and change everything. And the boy with the very red hair, who Francie suspected was somehow part of this change. The question, then, became: Will Francie… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Short Stories

Actualized Jenetta Penner · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Immersed Jenetta Penner · 2017 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

The Adjustment (Program Book 5) Suzanne Young · 2017 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The first book in Suzanne Young’s New York Times bestselling series is a “gripping tale for lovers of dystopian romance” (Kirkus Reviews) about two teens in a world where true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program—now with a freshly reimagined look.Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic,… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Configured:Book One of the Configured Trilogy Jenetta Penner · 2016 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Generation Heather Hildenbrand · 2015 Four generations of one family: a baby boy, his mother, his maternal grandmother, and his maternal great-grandmother. (2008) Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo · 2015 · ★ 4.4 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Moderate BOOK ONE of the Six of Crows Duology Six of Crows is a fantasy novel written by the Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo published by Henry Holt and Co. in 2015. The story follows a thieving crew and is primarily set in the city of Ketterdam, loosely inspired by Dutch Republic–era Amsterdam. The plot is told from third-person viewpoints of seven different characters. The novel is followed by… Shares: Young adult works, Juvenile works, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Exalta Zhiar Ali · 2026 The city doesn’t kill you. It processes you. In the fog-choked Sprawl beneath the corporate tower called Exalta, the Runner survives by staying uncounted. He carries packages he doesn’t open, follows routes he doesn’t question, and renews his identity in shrinking access windows. His existence is a suffix on a form. When the suffix expires, so does he. Liam Kestrel is a Security & Containment… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult

Crooked Kingdom Leigh Bardugo · 2016 · ★ 4.5 · 592p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Preceeded by Six of Crows BOOK TWO of the Six of Crows Duology Crooked Kingdom is a fantasy novel by American author Leigh Bardugo, published by Henry Holt and Co. in 2016. Set in a world loosely inspired by 19th-century Europe, it takes place days after the events of the duology's first book, Six of Crows. The plot is told from the third-person viewpoints of six characters. Shares: Young adult works, Juvenile works, Young Adult, Science Fiction

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge M. T. Anderson · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 538p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom. Shares: Novels, Juvenile works, Young Adult, Science Fiction

The Road Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. The sky is perpetually shrouded by dust and toxic particulates; the seasons are merely varied intensities of cold and dampness. Bands of cannibals roam the… Shares: Apocalyptic Fiction, Novels

The Scorch Trials James Dashner · 2010 · ★ 3.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch. The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them. There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’… Shares: Young adult works, Juvenile works, Young Adult, Science Fiction

The Islander Charles Whittlesey · 2007 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In 2155 there are two Americas. Half the nation lives comfortably in the technology of the 22nd century; the other half lives trapped on pre-industrial Islands: the remains of America's collapsed cities. The two cultures collide when Galen Fairchild, an Islander, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy family in the modern city of Stratis. But Galen's dreams fall apart when a startling event… Shares: Dystopian, Science Fiction

After London Richard Jefferies · 1885 · ★ 3.1 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Challenging pages ; cm Shares: Apocalyptic Fiction, Science Fiction

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