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The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games • Book 1
by Suzanne Collins
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Collins weaponizes reality TV into a chilling portrait of inequality, where teenagers fight to the death for entertainment and bread.
★ 4.35 Goodreads (10.0M ratings) - 2
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Blood of the Lost
Rylee Adamson • Book 10
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Tracker Rylee faces her ultimate salvage: rescuing humanity itself when Orion fools the world into believing supernatural beings have vanished. Ten books build to this world-ending confrontation between ancient powers.
★ 4.55 Goodreads (7.1K ratings) - 4
The Sun Dwellers
The Dwellers • Book 3
by David Estes
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Grief-stricken Adele launches a secret mission to assassinate the President in the Sun Realm, but the journey will reveal devastating truths about her relationship with Tristan.
★ 4.16 Goodreads (2.0K ratings) - 5
The Ember War
The Ember War Saga • Book 1
by Richard Fox
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Earth faces extinction when an alien armada arrives, but a mysterious probe offers humanity one chance through inventor Marc Ibarra's daring plan. Military sci-fi with overwhelming odds and clever human solutions.
★ 3.95 Goodreads (3.7K ratings) - 6
The Moon Dwellers
The Dwellers • Book 1
by David Estes
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Forced underground after environmental catastrophe, humanity created the Tri-Realms society where seventeen-year-old Adele gets sentenced to life in prison for her parents' alleged treason. Estes builds a compelling dystopian class system.
★ 3.83 Goodreads (4.4K ratings) - 7
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
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Katsu reimagines the Donner Party tragedy as supernatural horror, suggesting that something inhuman—not just desperation—drove the pioneers to madness and murder in the mountains.
★ 3.59 Goodreads (35.9K ratings) - 8
