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Books like Sunrise on the Reaping

Suzanne Collins · 2025 · US · science fiction · young adult
Book 5 of 5 in The Hunger Games
★ 4.49 Goodreads · 1,357,286 ratings

On the morning of the reaping for the fiftieth Hunger Games, a Quarter Quell that will take twice as many tributes, sixteen-year-old Haymitch Abernathy of District 12 only wants to get through the day and spend it with the girl he loves.

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12 books for readers of Sunrise on the Reaping

Battle Royale

Koushun Takami · 1999 · Japan 96% match ★ 4.26 Goodreads · 89,408 ratings
shares: tournament, dystopian, survival · easy read, dark

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.

Unwind

Neal Shusterman · 2007 · US 96% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 256,261 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Unwind Dystology
shares: dystopian, survival, young adult · easy read, dark

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.

Wool

Hugh Howey · 2012 · US 94% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 296,200 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Silo
shares: rebellion, dystopian · easy read, dark

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.

The Long Walk

Stephen King · 1979 · US 94% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 316,105 ratings
shares: tournament, dystopian, survival · easy read, dark

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.

Legend

Marie Lu · 2011 · US 94% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 575,583 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Legend
shares: rebellion, dystopian, young adult · easy read, fast-paced

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.

The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline · 2017 · Canada 94% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 46,879 ratings
shares: dystopian, survival, young adult · easy read, dark

In a future North America ravaged by climate change, where people have lost the ability to dream, Indigenous people are hunted for their bone marrow, and Frenchie, a Métis boy, flees north with others.

The Children of Men

P. D. James · 1992 · UK 94% match ★ 3.66 Goodreads · 54,245 ratings
shares: rebellion, dystopian, political · easy read, dark

In a near-future England where humanity has become infertile, a disillusioned historian is drawn into a resistance movement against a totalitarian government.

Powerless

Lauren Roberts · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 1,114,598 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Powerless
shares: tournament, dystopian, survival · easy read, plain prose

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 94% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 716,995 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Uglies
shares: rebellion, dystopian, survival · easy read, plain prose

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.

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler · 1993 · US 94% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 301,377 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Earthseed
shares: dystopian, survival, brutal · easy read, dark

As civilisation collapses from climate change and inequality, a young woman with a dangerous gift of empathy leads survivors north towards a new beginning.

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 107,609 ratings
shares: dystopian, brutal, political · dark, violent

In a near-future America, incarcerated fighters earn their freedom through televised death-matches, and two star lovers consider how long they can keep winning.

The Maze Runner

James Dashner · 2009 · US 94% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 1,756,112 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Maze Runner
shares: dystopian, survival, young adult · easy read, fast-paced

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.