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Suzanne Collins · 2009 · US · science fiction · young adult
Book 2 of 5 in The Hunger Games
★ 4.37 Goodreads · 4,360,724 ratings

After winning the Hunger Games together, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark must tour the districts of Panem as victors, but Katniss's defiance in the arena has stirred unrest, and President Snow makes it clear that she must calm it or her family will pay.

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12 books for readers of Catching Fire

Legend

Marie Lu · 2011 · US 96% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 575,583 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Legend
shares: rebellion, action heavy, dystopian · fast-paced, easy read

In a future Los Angeles ruled by the Republic, fifteen-year-old prodigy June Iparis is sent to hunt down Day, the country's most wanted criminal, whom she believes killed her brother.

Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard · 2015 · US 96% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 1,228,617 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Red Queen
shares: love triangle, rebellion, dystopian · easy read, fast-paced

In a kingdom where silver-blooded nobles with powers rule red-blooded commoners, Mare Barrow, a Red thief, shows in front of the whole court that she has a power of her own, and the king hides her in plain sight as a lost Silver noblewoman.

The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey · 2013 · US 96% match ★ 3.70 Hardcover · 554 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The 5th Wave
shares: action heavy, survival, young adult · easy read, fast-paced

After four waves of alien attack have killed most of humanity, sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan, alone in the woods with a rifle and trusting no one, sets out to keep her promise to find her little brother.

Divergent

Veronica Roth · 2011 · US 96% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 4,503,130 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Divergent
shares: action heavy, dystopian, young adult · fast-paced, easy read

In a future Chicago divided into five factions, each devoted to a single virtue, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose where she belongs, and the test meant to guide her shows that she fits no single faction, a secret that could get her killed.

Wool

Hugh Howey · 2012 · US 96% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 296,200 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Silo
shares: rebellion, dystopian · easy read, fast-paced

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.

Unwind

Neal Shusterman · 2007 · US 95% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 256,261 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Unwind Dystology
shares: dystopian, survival, young adult · easy read, fast-paced

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.

The Maze Runner

James Dashner · 2009 · US 95% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 1,756,112 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Maze Runner
shares: action heavy, dystopian, survival · fast-paced, suspenseful

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.

Powerless

Lauren Roberts · 2023 · US 95% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 1,114,598 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Powerless
shares: tournament, dystopian, survival · easy read, fast-paced

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.

Uglies

Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · US 95% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 716,995 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Uglies
shares: rebellion, dystopian, survival · easy read, fast-paced

In a future city where everyone has an operation at sixteen that makes them beautiful, Tally Youngblood can hardly wait for hers, until her friend Shay runs away and Tally is given a choice: find her and betray her, or never turn pretty at all.

The Selection

Kiera Cass · 2012 · US 94% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 1,824,604 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Selection
shares: tournament, love triangle, dystopian · easy read, fast-paced

America Singer, a musician from a lower caste in the future kingdom of Illéa, is chosen as one of thirty-five girls competing to marry Prince Maxon, though she is still in love with a boy from home.

An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir · 2015 · US 94% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 365,391 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in An Ember in the Ashes
shares: love triangle, rebellion, young adult · easy read, fast-paced

Laia, a Scholar girl whose brother is arrested for treason, spies for the rebels as a slave at the Martial Empire's brutal military academy, where Elias, its finest soldier, secretly wants out.

Steelheart

Brandon Sanderson · 2013 · US 94% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 200,887 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Reckoners
shares: action heavy, dystopian, young adult · fast-paced, easy read

Ten years after a burst in the sky gave ordinary people superpowers and made them tyrants, David, who saw Steelheart, the invincible ruler of Newcago, bleed on the day he killed David's father, sets out to join the Reckoners, who assassinate Epics.