If You Liked Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

You just finished the Hunger Games books and you are itching for another cool story just like it. Well, you are in luck. Here are five books that you might like if you enjoyed the Hunger Games trilogy.

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Divergent by Veronica Roth

In the future, the world is divided into 5 groups, the members of which spend their lives cultivating a particular virtue--selflessness, honesty, intelligence, and peacefulness. Each 16 year old has to pick a group to which he or she will devote the rest of his or her life by enduring a series of extreme tests of physical endurance and intense psychological simulations. The system helps to create a "perfect" world for its inhabitants. For Beatrice Prior, it is her time to choose her path. She can choose to stay with her family or be true to who she really is--she can't do both.

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Maze Runner by James Dashner

When Thomas wakes up in a giant dark elevator, he has no memory of his life before he woke up. He just knows his name is Thomas--or is it? The doors of the elevator suddenly open and he finds himself looking out on The Glade, a huge outdoor area surrounded by giant stone walls. A group of teenage boys just like him is waiting to greet him. The Glade is a giant maze from which nobody has escaped. Every 30 days a new boy arrives. When a girl arrives the next day, chaos ensues.

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Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

In a world reeling from natural disasters and environmental destruction caused by human beings, we have almost run out of oil and the gap between the rich and poor has grown ever wider. In the Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are taken apart by crews of dirt poor teenagers called Ship Breakers. Nailer, a member of the light crew, scavenges for copper and other valuable materials so that he and his abusive, alcoholic dad can survive. One day, a hurricane causes a luxury ship to wreck on the shore near where Nailer lives. He and a friend are able to rescue the lone survivor, a beautiful, wealthy girl. Protecting her and reuniting her with her family could mean a new life for Nailer or unseen dangers that could cost him his life.

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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

How do you create a world where there is always peace and harmony? Make everyone beautiful, of course! Tally Youngblood is about to reach her 16th birthday and she will finally get the operation that transforms all of the kids in her world from an Ugly into a Pretty. The operation uses cosmetic surgery to change your appearance to conform to an ideal standard of beauty. Tally is looking forward to the operation (as is every teenager) until she meets Shay, a fellow female Ugly who tells her about The Smoke, a colony of outsiders who have chosen to live without technology and who have refused to get the operation.

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Unwind by Neal Shusterman

In the near future, a civil war has been fought between those who believe that abortion should be legal and those who think it should be illegal. The result? Abortion of newborns is illegal, but teenagers can be sent to Harvest Farms, where they can have their individual body parts taken and given to other people who need them--they are unwound. So if you get into trouble with the law, are an orphan, or are just unlucky enough, prepare for your unwinding.

The Hunger Games by: Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins' book, “The Hunger Games”, is a fiction book. If you like action movies or even reading about action books, you should start reading this book. It is a story about how government in the future takes control of how you live and this story talks about Katniss and how she learned to hunt and how it kept her alive during the games. Katniss’ survival in the games is hard when she's the main target and Katniss is to play the role of the girl who fell in love to stay alive.

Luis P.

My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The book, "My Sisters Keeper", is a heartbreaking story mainly about two sisters, Kate and Anna, who are very close but a crucial decision for the younger sister, Anna, causes a lot of problems with the family and ends up changing their lives forever.

I personally would recommend this book. It makes you realize how important your family is and it will make you appreciate them much more. This story causes you to experience many different emotions and in the end, it leaves you with a life changing experience. Although this story makes your emotions jump in different directions, the ending will leave you in tears but it’s nothing like the movie.

Katie S.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I enjoyed reading Brave New World because it portrays a detailed description of what the world could become in a matter of one hundred years or more. The novel speaks of an infirmary, where the residents are not born, but are made perfect by technology. They are immune to any disease. The residents are put into social castes, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. Alpha being the highest, Epsilon the lowest. The Alphas and Betas serve as hierarchy who make the decisions for their community and the Epsilons do the dirty work.

The book follows the lives of several characters putting their social, sexual and secret lives in great detail. One of the main points the society wants to make sure is known is people should find pleasure in everyday life and obtain it as much as possible. Sex is a crucial component in their society because it is seen as the ultimate pleasure. Simply said, the higher caste you are, the more pleasure you will obtain in your life. A stranger from the "outside world", which is any part of the world outside their society, knows nothing of the advancements of the brave new world when he comes to the new society and is introduced to the perfections.

I recommend this book to anybody who has ever been curious about the future or what it could become.

Jesse B.

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

Firefly Lane, by Kristin Hannah, is a story about two best friends who met on the street where they grew up, Firefly Lane. They came from completely different backgrounds and had opposite personalities. Each one wanted to be like the other but they would never admit it out loud. They supported each other through most of their lives. "Best friends forever". They'd believed it would last, that vow, that someday they'd be old women, sitting in their rocking chairs on a creaking deck, talking about the times of their lives and laughing."

As they got older, they realized they wanted different things for their lives. Kate wanted marriage and children. Tully wanted a career and fame. Even when they both succeed in their dreams, they envied each other. They lived completely opposite lives but neither one was perfect. The book shows no matter what you have, there is good and bad, but if you have no one with whom to share it, it doesn't really matter. Even when they fought, they still remembered how important their friendship was. Through the rest of their lives they continued to be best friends and supported each other through their many downfalls.

First published in February 2008, by St. Martin's Press, Firefly Lane is a book to which any girl or woman can relate. Everyone has had a best friend and knows that friendship is stronger than any other relationship. Any girl, high school and up, could find value in this story and will fly through the 528 pages. The story carries the idea of always wanting what you don't have and wishing you were something you aren't. That is an idea almost anyone can understand.

Paige L.

Daybreak 2250 A.D. by Andre Norton

"Daybreak 2250 A.D." is a great science fiction novel jam packed with 182 pages of Beast-Things, Lizard-men and mutants that roam the new world after total atomic devastation. Humans kill each other and there is bleak hope for survival as they pay for the sins of their ancestors. It is up to the estranged Fors, who is the son of the great Star Man, Langdon, to retain and find knowledge of the 'Old Ones'. This book deals with race and tolerance. Andre Norton makes this one of the biggest premises and makes it not too 'preachy'. This book is amazing and is a must read for anyone into survival science fiction.

John N.