What to Read after "The Hunger Games"

"I just finished the Hunger Games trilogy, and I LOVED it... What should I read next?"

Your friendly YA librarians are here to answer this question, since we've been hearing it a lot from many of our Adult Fiction Readers.  We think these books will help to satisfy your need for awesome, genre blending sci-fi/fantasy, that's full of interesting characters:


Divergent by Veronica Roth

When Tris (born Beatrice) turns 16 she chooses to leave her family and the only way of life she's ever known to join the Dauntless clan, known for their bravery and laughter in the face of danger. The rest of the novel is filled with breathtaking and heart stopping sequences as Tris struggles with friendships and rivalries during an intense initiation process before realizing that everything she has been through is trivial compared to a larger battle looming with forces that want her dead. (from this post).

Also recommended:  Enclave, by Ann Aguire


Across the Universe by Beth Revis

In a book about people being cryogenically frozen to be awakened in 300 years when their spaceship reaches the planet they will colonize, something is bound to go wrong.  And it does when Amy is unfrozen about fifty years too soon.  Apparently, all is not well on the spaceship that the teenage Elder will come to lead.  Who is unfreezing the bodies? And why?  Will Elder and Amy join forces?  Read this engaging thriller and enjoy a wild ride! (more on this book)

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Delirium is the first book in a trilogy about 17-year-old Lena who unsurprisingly lives in a future version of the United States. In Lena’s future the government has mandated that every citizen at the age of 18 undergo a procedure that prevents them from experiencing the delirium of love and leads to a safe and predictable life, free of suffering and sadness. Having lost her mother to the delirium, Lena can’t wait to find safety in the arms of the cure. But life has a way of interfering with our best laid plans, and ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, Lena meets Alex. And falls in love...  (from this post)

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

A witch and a vampire walk into a library... What sounds like a strange library joke is actually the first book in a seriously romantic and literary trilogy. Diana Bishop comes from a long line of witches, but would much rather rely on her own wit and intellect to get by. When she requests the wrong book from the Bodleian library she suddenly becomes the number one most wanted by many different magical communities, and that's not the sort of attention you want to have. Luckily, she also garners the attention of Matthew Clairmon a very old and respected vampire who may be able to offer her the protection she is seriously in need of.  Of course, first she'll need to admit that she needs it.

The Passage by Justin Cronin

In 2018, a top-secret government project gone wrong unleashes a virus that wipes out most of the population, leaving few survivors and millions of so-called virals.  A small band of survivors keeps the hordes of virals at bay through a system of lighting, but it is becoming clear that the aging batteries will soon be spent.  When a strange young girl who shares some of the virals’ characteristics and seems able to communicate with them shows up at the colony, everything changes.  No ordinary vampire novel, PEN/Hemingway Award winner Cronin significantly raises the bar with this gripping, sweeping, post-apocalyptic epic, the first in a projected trilogy.   Exquisite writing, engrossing and engaging characters, and a remarkable storyline will have you compulsively turning all 776 pages of this outstanding book.

And if you've already tried all of these suggestions, check out What's Next? where you'll find an ever-evolving list of our read-alike suggestions.