Books like Battle Royale
In the Republic of Greater East Asia, a junior high class on a school trip is gassed and wakes on an island, told by the government that only one of the forty-two students will be allowed to leave alive.
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The Hunger Games
A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death in a televised arena to save her sister, and the games become a catalyst for revolution.
The Long Walk
Every May one hundred teenage boys set out from the border between Maine and Canada on the Long Walk, a contest in an alternate America where a walker who drops below four miles an hour gets three warnings, and the last one walking wins anything he wants.
Confessions
On her last day of teaching, middle-school teacher Yuko Moriguchi tells her class that her four-year-old daughter's death at the school pool was no accident, that two of the students in the room killed her, and that she has already taken her revenge.
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Near the end of the Second World War, a group of reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village are left behind there when the villagers flee a plague.
The Troop
Five fourteen-year-old Boy Scouts and their scoutmaster are camping on a remote island off Prince Edward Island when an emaciated stranger arrives carrying something that begins to get inside them, in Lord of the Flies crossed with body horror.
Unwind
After a war fought over abortion, the law lets parents have their children unwound between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, their bodies taken apart for transplants, and three teenagers marked for it, Connor, Risa and Lev, go on the run.
Burn
Two old friends come out of their annual hunting trip in the Maine woods to find the country convulsed by armed secessionist violence, and have to make their way home through it.
Heaven
Two 14-year-olds in a Tokyo school, both targets of relentless bullying, find each other and argue about whether suffering has meaning.
Powerless
In a kingdom where the gifted Elites rule and the powerless Ordinaries are hunted, a thief named Paedyn Gray hides that she has no power at all, until she saves a prince and is thrown into the deadly Purging Trials.
In the Miso Soup
Kenji, who guides foreign tourists through Tokyo's sex clubs, is hired for the three nights before New Year's Eve by Frank, an American whose odd behaviour makes Kenji wonder whether he is behind the murder of a schoolgirl.
The Maze Runner
Thomas wakes in a lift with no memory except his name and arrives in the Glade, a clearing walled in by an enormous maze whose walls move every night, where a community of boys has been looking for a way out for two years.
Wool
Thousands of people live in a vast underground silo, and the worst crime is asking to go outside, until Juliette, a mechanic from the deep levels, is made sheriff and starts asking why.