But now she, renamed Tris, has a secret, and it could put herself and those she loves at risk or save them all. Left without guidance, she makes a surprising choice.

Beatrice’s test, however, doesn’t go as planned. Each year, the sixteen-year-olds are separated into their faction. In a post-apocalyptic type society, Chicago is divided into five factions, each specializing in virtue or trait. Books: 3 – Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant.Because yes, we are looking forward to Tomi Adeyemi publishing the final book in the Legacy of Orïsha, but where would this genre be without Koushun Takami’s Battle Royale? Thus, we are bringing you some old with the new for our 25 suggestions of books like The Hunger Games. Nor is putting children in peril a new concept, either. A massive market opened up in the publishing sector, and more teenage dystopian narratives flooded in.īut dystopian fiction has been around for a long time. Suddenly even people who don’t read for pleasure wanted to take archery lessons and wear their hair tied to the side. With The Hunger Games hitting the big screen, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen’s fame spread even further.

People were obsessed with a story of children being made to fight one another to the death. No longer was it just sci-fi and speculative fiction readers gobbling up these narratives, but bookworms from other genres were getting into the game.

Suzanne Collins lit a fire under the YA market with The Hunger Games trilogy and rebooted dystopia fiction into the mainstream.

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