The Hunger Games Lover’s Book Recommendations
We love The Hunger Games, and many of us have read all three books many times, but what else do Hunger Games fans like to read?
Perri at Movies.com decided to ask a bunch of The Hunger Games fan sites, about the other books that they’re reading that are either going to be be adapted for the big screen, or would make a good movie:
Reading can be fun in itself, but if you’re one of the many who relished Suzanne Collins’ books before seeing the story come to life on the big screen, you know there’s something special about being part of that transition, falling in love with text and then literally seeing it come to life right before your eyes. Lucky for us, the whole young adult novel adaptation craze is as hot as ever so there are quite a number of soon-to-be movies to choose from.
With the help of The Hunger Games fandom, Movies.com brings you a comprehensive list of the best of the best the YA-to-film realm has to offer.
Here’s some of the recommendations:
Kait – Victor’s Village – Divergent Trilogy
The city of Chicago has been barred off from the rest of the world, the government absolved. What lies in its place are five factions dedicated to holding up the virtues they hold dearest: Abnegation (The Selfless), Amity (The Kind), Candor (The Honest), Dauntless (The Brave), and Erudite (The Intelligent). At age 16, every individual must choose their own faction. The decision should be easy for Tris Prior until she finds out some shocking news about herself. When Tris joins the most dangerous of all the factions, she finds herself facing the destruction of everything she loves. Divergent is a refreshingly original book filled with almost non-stop action. The characters are a perfect combination of charming, flawed, and badass without getting totally unrealistic. As Tris transforms from a meek nobody to a leader, you can’t help but be enthralled by her, even at the times when her decisions are outrageous.
Crystal – Mockingjay.net/Fictionalfood.net – Ender’s Game
Decades ago, Earth was attacked by the Formics, an alien race that made no contact except to start killing humans. Now, the military on Earth has joined forces to create the International Fleet and they search the planet for the world’s smartest child that will be raised to become the military genius that will lead the human fleet to win the war. Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is six years old when he’s drafted into the IF to head into Earth’s orbit to the Battle School where he must face a grueling physical and psychological training among the world’s most brilliant children. They train in the Battle Room and Ender must face intense bullying at the hands of the older kids jealous of his amazing abilities. The movie starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Viola Davis is coming out a mere three weeks before The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and I can’t even imagine what an exciting and busy month that is going to be. I got to visit the set in New Orleans for my fansite, EnderWiggin.net, in May and, as a fan of the book for 21 years, it was a dream come true. Hunger Games fans will love it.
Celine – HungerGamesTrilogy.net – Legend
Legend by Marie Lu is a dystopian novel that revolves around two central characters, June and Day. June is from a rich family in one of the Republics’ wealthiest districts while Day, their country’s most wanted fugitive, lives on the streets. They cross paths when Day becomes the main suspect in June’s brother’s murder. June, the Republic’s most gifted soldier, will do anything to avenge her brother’s death. However, she starts falling for Day. What I like about the book, aside from the action-packed story line, is that it’s written from both June and Day’s perspective. I think the author did a great job transitioning between the two points of view. According to Marie Lu’s official site, CBS Films currently holds the film rights with Temple Hill producing. The second book in the Legend Trilogy titled Prodigy will be released on January 29, 2013.
Jacqui – My Hunger Games – The Fault in Our Stars
It’s hard to explain why this book is so good, as when you go to outline the plot, it sounds like one of the worst things ever written. The primary characters are teenagers with cancer. And yes, they meet and fall in love. And yep, that sounds like a recipe for serious treacle, but this story is also full of wisdom; it’s sweet and philosophical but also, surprisingly funny. The story is narrated by 16-year-old Hazel Lancaster. She has terminal cancer and nearly died at the age of 13. Since then she’s hardly had the chance to be with people her own age so her parents decide that she should attend a support group. There she meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee. While this could be one of the great tearjerkers, Green doesn’t take you down that path, except by being brutally honest about the characters and their condition. Hazel is caustic. She’s funny and interesting. This book is going to make a heartfelt and interesting movie. The film rights were optioned by Fox 2000 in February of this year.
You can head to movies.com to check out the full list but let us know what else you’ve been reading, or other books you recommend..
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I am reading Gone series, their is five total. (Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plauge, and Fear) All by Michael Grant. In my opinion it’s better than the Hunger Games, but not by much. The first book is about how everyone over the age of 15 dissapears, Gone. “Hunger theatens. Bullies rule. a sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents-unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers-that grows stronger by the day. Its a terrifying new world. sides are being chosen, and war is imminent. the first in a breathtaking saga about teens batteling each other and their darkest selves, Gone is a page-turning thriller that will make you look at the world in a whole new way.” It did for me, I look at things diffrently, in a Gone perspective. I really reccomend this book for anyone who wants a hight tense, action pacted, leave you on the edge of you seat book.
I’ve read this series also, and quite like it. I think you would be interested to know that a new book will be coming out called “Light”
“Paper Towns,” also by John Green. Man, that’s an amazing book–funny and deeply philosophical and moving.
Maximum Ride is a really entertaining series. some parts are annoying because James Patterson keeps contradicting things but it is fast pased and hillarious at times.
It IS supposidly being made into a movie. The first one was originally suppost to come out in 2007, then it was moved to 2010 now its 2013… Track record so far, its not going to ever come out…
one can hope
I know! It is so stupid! If it doesn’t come out, I will be sad! And I can’t wait for the last one!!!!!!!!
awww would love a movie of that :’(
The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James A. Owen. It is not dystopian science-fiction , just a near-perfect blend of fantasy, history, mythology and AWESOME! I recommend it to fans of the genre, but readers of anything will enjoy the book as there are many literary inside jokes. The illustrations, also by Owen, and usually at the beginning of each chapter, are amazing as well.
If you like Hunger Games, read Legend, Divergent or Maze runner
All amazing
Some other amazing books are Maximum ride, Percy Jackson, I am number four, Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices, Darkness Rising Trilogy and Darkest Powers Trilogy.
And then there is Harry Potter
But no one likes that
I’ve read one or two books in that list (for exemple, I’ve read and highly recommend the trilogy ‘His Dark Materials’), but, off that list, I highly recommend the “Unearthly” Saga. The third book is still being written, and I honestly don’t know how many books it will be, but I can promess you they are amazing. Make no mistake, it’s not like the Hunger Games in the sense it’s not a dystopian kind of book, but, in it’s own genre, it is as good as the Hunger Games: it is extremely well written and I would almost classify it as a page-turner. Its a romantic book, it’s about a girl that is an “angel-blood” (mix between human and angel) that, like everyone of her kind, receives her “purpose” (in the form of visions) and moves across the country in order to fulfil it. She ends up getting in love and the book, while there is many stuff happening at the same time (hence the pageturner, we never get bored), is about her inner-struggle between her fellings and her “divine purpose” she is supposed to fulfil. The second book ends up being better than the first one, at least for me…
Oh, the saga I just mentioned in currently “In Development” by the “CW” TV station.
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Blood Red Road
I was reading the Immortal Instruments series at the end of the school year. They are really good to me and I haven’t finished them yet and I read the 100 Cupboards series before school ended I couldn’t finish though
omg i love those ones! :p
Read ethereal and the other celestra books!!!! They are almost as good as the hunger games!!!!
I love Divergent!!!
I’ve been reading Divergent, and I’m not sure what to think of it. It’s very well-written and original, but my feelings are extremely mixed.
I strongly recommend Unwind by Neal Shusterman.
It’s movie website is unwindmovie.com.
Legend is a great book! Highly recommended, its fresh and original and I’m waiting for book 2!
The Divergent trilogy is amazing! I have read and reviewed both of the first two and am going to review the seoond, check my blog out for more details!http://booksandwritersjnr.wordpress.com/
omg i’ve read all of them and they are AMAZING!!!!!
Hush Hush, Crescendo,Silence- such good books!
Percy Jackson’s
Heroes of Olympus (continues from Percy jackson)
Immortal instruments
pretty little liars
lying game
yeah that’s some of the books which are really good
I highly recommend everything that everyone else has commented. Heres another series though. Graceling, Fire, and Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore. Great books. Especially for Hunger Games lovers!
I love those books! I’m on Fire right now- Kristen Cashore came to my bookstore and she’s so awesome! I was going to recommend them as well!
I recommend The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages. It’s WW2 fiction about the Manhattan Project and to this day, I’ve never met anyone else outside my family who has read it! GO READ IT NOW!
dear everyone reading this,
everyone read the Percy Jackson series. It is amazing.
IF you enjoyed the hunger games you should totally check out Matched trilogy by ally condie .also if you like supernatural trilogies i would recommend Nigthshade. They are all awsome books that are a must read!!!
the awesomest book to read after the hunger games is the MAZE RUNNER TRILOGY!!………i read all three books and it was FREAKING GREAT!!!
Partials by Dan Wells is still a pretty new book and relatively unknown
but it sooooooooo good!!!!!! It has the dystopian theme in it and there
is romance aswell. If your looking for something dystopian Partials is
definately the book for you. It’s not too similar to the hunger games but it’s
still worth reading
levan thumps read levan thumps
If you like trilogies and mortality questions, etc. the Skinjacker Trilogy by Neal Shusterman is amazing. The first book is called Everlost. Do not be turned away by the premise, as it is about dead kids. It’s not nearly as morbid as it seems. If you like adventure and suspense (who doesn’t?), try Amy’s Eyes by Richard Kennedy.
Never heard of these books xD Although I would like to read that series Gone, a bunch of people has been talking about it
I love the Game of Thrones collection. It’s set in a medieval time, with king clashes, and wars and blood and sex and all. of course, it has nothing to do with the type of books that are similar to THG, but it’s an AMAZING collection, though. Recommend it
Also read Eragon collection, CHERUB (about a bunch of teenagers that are secret agents – easy reads if you don’t really like reading and just wanna entertaing yourself), humm, plus… I have some unusual taste of books, because I like reading more complex and difficult things. Like: I read Pride and Prejudice from Jane Austen, and I have a book list where Persuasion, (from the same author) Anna Karenina and War and Peace, (from Tolstoi)and a bunch of other books are included.
Just another thing: starting reading THG books after I saw the movie, became very curious about what would happen next. It was a good surprise, and now I’m HOOKED, and I have a Google Alert on my e-mail, lol.
Anyway, THG ROCK!, and I’ll be considering all these amazing books recommendations to my Summer vacations that just started !
Matched and Crossed. (two different books in the series) Not very much action but still really good.
the kane chronicles are good to its actiony with a touch of romance!!!!!!!!!
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