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BKLYN BookMatch: The Hunger Games Read-Alikes

Books to read after or instead of The Hunger Games! as seen at: http://missprint.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/what-to-read-after-or-instead-of-the-hungers-games/

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The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey.
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What if every alien invasion scenario in every movie and book was wrong? What if there is no rallying point? What if the People in Charge never figure it out? What if you’re left alone with no one to trust?

This is not a test
Courtney Summers.
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Zombies are here and, frankly, Sloane is ready to let them eat her. Unfortunately the students trapped with her in the local high school want to live.

Shatter me
Tahereh Mafi.
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She has been locked up for 264 days with nothing but a small notebook, a broken pen and the numbers in her head to keep her company. It has been 6,336 hours since she touched another human being. The last time she did, it was murder.

Rot & Ruin
Jonathan Maberry.
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In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.

The eleventh plague
Jeff Hirsch.
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Two-thirds of the population are dead from a vicious influenza strain. People called it the eleventh plague.

The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater.
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Sean is a boy with everything to lose in this year's Scorpio Race while Puck is a girl with everything to gain. But in a deadly race with lethal water horses there can only be one winner.

Divergent
Veronica Roth.
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Being marked as divergent means Tris can choose to join any faction. Choosing Dauntless means embarking on a grueling, harrowing initiation process that she might not survive.

A confusion of princes
by Garth Nix.
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Khemri is a Prince--faster, stronger, smarter. But is he fast, strong and smart enough to survive against the thousands of other Princes all intent on becoming Emperor of the galaxy?

Throne of glass
Sarah J. Maas.
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After a year of hard labor, assassin Celaena Sardothien has a chance to reclaim her freedom. All she has to do is win a competition against other cutthroats and killers to become the champion of the king who first arrested her.

The Selection
Kiera Cass.
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Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince.