Anything else like The Hunger Games?

KyleS1

Cool thanks. I'll start with Ender's Game then.

tazmago

I read the Hunger games a while back, and even though they were aimed at young adults, I went ahead and read them anyway, and was so glad I did.  Straight after I too went looking for similar books and found of couple of series that, although not the same sort of story, they come highly recommended by me.

The first was the Maze Runner trilogy by James Dashner which was nearly as good as HG and very enjoyable.  I then read the Gone series of books by Michael Grant and they are absolutely fantastic!

sniffer66

My eleven year old son is on book 3 of the Gone series at the moment and loving it. I may read them myself

tazmago

Its a great series, that keeps getting better with each book IMO.  It reminded me of a cross between two Stephen King books "Under the Dome" and "The Stand", with some X-Men thrown in for good measure

KyleS1

Great, thanks. Will grab a copy of those too. Just finishing off another lee child at the moment then will get cracking on some of the recommendations from this thread. Just preordered the new kindle paperwhite too.

BT Bob

I've mentioned these on another thread, but take a look at Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass). I've read them several times, and listened to the audiobooks, and love them.

There's a pretty ordinary film version of Northern Lights called The Golden Compass, but it really doesn't come close to the book, IMO.

KyleS1

Thanks, will check the out.

Gooble Gobble

I've yet to read the series, I want to read the first one before the film is out, but the series starting with Divergent is suppose to be rather good and Hunger Gamesque.

Divergent (Divergent, Book 1): Amazon.co.uk: Veronica Roth: Books

KyleS1

Sounds good. Something else to take a look at. I have A LOT of books on my Kindle now!

KyleS1

Currently half way through the second book from the Gone series - Hunger. They are pretty good. Not as good as the  Hunger Games, but an enjoyable read.