Hungry for More Hunger Games?
Sunday, February 06, 2011The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzzanne Collins is steadily gaining popularity due to a movie, due to be released in March 2012, and the avid fandom community the books have created in the three years since The Hunger Games came out.

In the Hunger Games, though there are 24 tributes, only one can survive. Now Katniss is forced to chose to save her own life, or to kill people she doesn't even know to survive. How can she kill Peeta, the one who saved her own life?
The term dystopian is a great one in describing this book. Dystopian means a society characterized by human misery, or in this case, utopia gone wrong. When everything is decided for you, how can anything be bad?
The Hunger Games trilogy is one of my favorite series, hands down. I give each book 5/5. The only complaint I had was that I was done too fast. That had me on the prowl for books like The Hunger Games. Here's what I found:
The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher: Welcome to a


Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury: Books are illegal, and burned,


What have you read that reminds you of The Hunger Games?

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I'd add Across the Universe and (soon to be released) Divergent to this list. I can't wait to read Girl in the Arena--It's on its way to me right now!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the map of Panem. I'm going to use it when teaching the HG. Thanks!
omg march 23, 2012 cannot come soon enough I am dying to see The Hunger Games movie!! http://on.fb.me/gXrImz
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