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Readalikes for Fans of The Hunger Games

    Enclave

    Enclave - Ann Aguirre

    In a post-apocalyptic future, Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous.
    Feed

    Feed - M. T. Anderson

    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.
    Ship Breaker

    Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi

    In a futuristic world, Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
    Above

    Above - Leah Bobet

    When an army of mindless, whispering shadows invade Safe, a secret, underground community of freaks and disabled outcasts, Matthew, Ariel, and other misfits go to the dangerous place known as Above, where Matthew makes a shocking discovery about the histories entrusted to him.
    After the Snow

    After the Snow - S. D. Crockett

    Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows that ushered in a new ice age, encounters outlaws, halfmen, and an abandoned girl as he journeys in search of his family, who mysteriously disappeared from the freezing mountain that was their home.
    The Pledge

    The Pledge - Kimberly Derting

    In a dystopian kingdom where the classes are separated by the languages they speak, Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has a secret gift that is revealed when she meets a mysterious young man named Max.
    The House of the Scorpion

    The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer

    In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
    Incarceron

    Incarceron - Catherine Fisher

    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.
    Gone

    Gone - Michael Grant

    In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen 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.
    Girl in the Arena

    Girl in the Arena - Lise Haines

    In Massachusetts, Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
    The Eleventh Plague

    The Eleventh Plague - Jeff Hirsch

    Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.
    Ashfall

    Ashfall - Mike Mullin

    After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.
    The Knife of Never Letting Go

    The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness

    Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young 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 Old World.
    Birthmarked

    Birthmarked - Caragh O'Brien

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

    Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
    Dark Inside

    Dark Inside - Jeyn Roberts

    After tremendous earthquakes destroy the Earth's major cities, an ancient evil emerges, turning ordinary people into hunters, killers, and insane monsters, but a small group of teens comes together in a fight for survival and safety.
    Under the Never Sky

    Under the Never Sky - Veronica Rossi

    Exiled from her safe home in the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria finds herself in the outer wastelands known as the Death Shop. There she meets a savage, an Outsider named Perry - wild, dangerous - who is her only chance of survival. But Perry needs Aria, too, and they are forced into an unlikely alliance that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.
    Article 5

    Article 5 - Kristen Simmons

    Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff penalties, but when Chase, the only boy she has ever loved, arrests her rebellious mother, Ember must take action.
    Ashes, Ashes

    Ashes, Ashes - Jo Treggiari

    In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes, Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, but soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and infect people with plague.
    Uglies

    Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

    Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there...
    Blood Red Road

    Blood Red Road - Moira Young

    In a distant future, Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape.
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