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I Just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy!

Now what?

“Hey man, it doesn’t matter if you didn’t read the first one. Duh. Just jump in with the second one.”

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

“It was cool how Katniss volunteered for her sister. I can’t stand my lil’ brother, but I’d kill somebody to protect him.” 

Seventeen-year-old Teddy Anderson, who is known on the streets as T-Bear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sister's death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a semiautomatic handgun.

“I looove Peeta, yet I love Gale, too. I know you said it’s not at all like Twilight, but who would you choose?”

Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves.

“That was crazy how the Capitol was, like, brainwashed and went along with it. Those people were excited about kids killing each other. That’s some scary stuff! How could you even do that?”

A photo-illustrated look at the youth organizations Adolf Hitler founded and used to meet his sociopolitical and military ends; includes profiles of individual Hitler Youth members as well as young people who opposed the Nazis, such as Hans and Sophie Scholl.

 “I just wanna keep rereading the series over and over. I love how mildly demented Panem is, and I just want to stick with this book forever. “

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

“I wanna know all the hard vocab in this book, because I am Katniss. She’s gotta be so tough. I just wanna learn from her mistakes, so I don’t have to make them.”

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

“Nuh uh, I didn’t jump at all when the mutts

appeared… The thing is I didn’t like how their eyes weren’t like in the book; but still, the muttations were the best for sure.”

In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

“You didn’t cry when Rue died? What are you

—made of stone?”

Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered.

 “Isn’t it awesome when you don’t exist in the real world but only in the world of your book? Especially when the characters think it’s an Ethiopia, and it’s not.” 

“Dude, it’s Utopia, not Ethiopia.”

Todd, one month away from an important birthday, learns all the tough lessons of adulthood when he is forced to flee after discovering a secret near the town where he lives.

“I loved it, but I read the whole trilogy in just a few days. Does that mean it was too easy for me?”

A chilling prophecy about the future. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. A powerful novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.

“I hated this book! Well, not really. I

mean, I loved it. It just made me think the whole time. I

still can’t stop. Isn’t that awful?”

Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.

The tributes had some wicked survival skills. Where can I get me some? survival skills. Where can I get me

A guide to survival in the outdoors. Discussing preparation and gear, navigation techniques, food and water, different environments, modes of travel, shelter options, and first aid.

Yeah, that’s all great but how about if the game

makers are hard at work, and throw a curve ball our

way?

• Expeditions that have faced nearly every inhospitable habitat. Essential advice to ensure you make it back alive.

I liked the Hunger games, but I’m more of a non-fiction

reader. Have you got any true survival stories.

I know this might sound weird, but, I can’t quit

thinking about characters forced to fight.

Fantasy, action / adventure, romance , different colored eyes and a very unique grace. The King’s thug? Or a Robin Hood?

This futuristic tale involves aliens, sophisticated computer games, and an orbiting battle station. Yet the reason it rings true for so many is that it is first and foremost a tale of humanity; a boy struggling to grow up into something he can respect while living in an environment stripped of choices. (This series has been made into graphic novels as well.)

When a plague sweeps over the Earth, killing everyone except children under the age of twelve. Ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life. This has also recently been made into a graphic novel.

Other Dystopian Novels to check out!

In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.

In a distant future, eighteen-year-old 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.

The Huntress Duece is drawn to her new partner, Fade, a mysterious boy who is not afraid to break the rules of the elders, and as she learns of the elders' deceptions, she and Fade push the enclave to test their faith and protect themselves from unexpected dangers.

In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics, sixteen-year-old 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.

Amy, having been cryogenically frozen and placed onboard a spaceship which was supposed to land on a distant planet three hundred years in the future, is unplugged fifty years too early and finds herself stuck inside an enclosed world ruled by a tyrannical leader and his rebellious teenage heir and confused about who to trust and why someone is trying to kill her.

Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.