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Genre
- Science fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Adventure
Story type
What it is about
- Teenage girls
- Survival
- Reality television programs
- Television programs
- Interpersonal relations
- Contests
Where it happens
- Panem
Kind of book
- Novel
Ages
- Ages 13+
- Young Adult
Awards
- Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
About this book
In Panem, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen of District 12 lives under the rule of the Capitol, which keeps control through a yearly televised fight. (condensed from its Library of Congress summary) It is book 1 of the Hunger Games series and set in Panem.
Reading level: ages 12-18, Young Adult (Scholastic).
Where this comes from: Library of Congress · Wikidata · Open Library subject · Scholastic
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Why: Both are dystopian and adventure books.
What both books share
- dystopian
The Hunger Games: "Dystopian fiction" (OL subject); "dystopian literature" (WD genre)
Ready Player One: "Fiction, dystopian" (OL subject); "YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Dystopian" (OL subject); "dystopian" (OL subject); "dystopian fiction" (WD genre) - adventure
The Hunger Games: "Action & Adventure" (OL subject); "adventure fiction" (WD genre)
Ready Player One: "Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure" (OL subject); "adventure" (OL subject); "adventure fiction" (WD genre)
- dystopian
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Why: Both are young adult dystopian and science fiction books.
- Young adult
- Dystopian
- Science fiction
What both books share
- young adult
The Hunger Games: "young adult fiction" (WD genre)
Divergent: "young adult" (OL subject); "YOUNG ADULT FICTION" (OL subject) - dystopian
The Hunger Games: "Dystopian fiction" (OL subject); "dystopian literature" (WD genre)
Divergent: "dystopian" (OL subject); "dystopian fiction" (OL subject); "dystopian fiction" (WD genre) - science fiction
The Hunger Games: "Science fiction" (OL subject); "science fiction literature" (WD genre)
Divergent: "Science fiction" (OL subject); "Science-fiction" (OL subject); "science fiction" (WD genre)
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Why: Both are science fiction books about survival.
What both books share
- science fiction
The Hunger Games: "Science fiction" (OL subject); "science fiction literature" (WD genre)
The Martian: "Science-Fiction" (OL subject); "Science fiction" (OL subject); "Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure" (OL subject); "Fiction, science fiction, general" (OL subject) - survival
The Hunger Games: "Survival" (OL subject); "Survival Stories" (OL subject); "Survival, fiction" (OL subject); "Survival Fiction" (OL subject)
The Martian: "Survival" (OL subject); "Survival -- Fiction" (LoC 650)
- science fiction
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| Divergent | shared | shared | shared | not shared | not shared |
| The Martian | shared | not shared | not shared | shared | not shared |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | shared | shared | not shared | not shared | not shared |
| Brave New World | shared | shared | not shared | not shared | not shared |
| Fahrenheit 451 | shared | shared | not shared | not shared | not shared |
| The Swiss Family Robinson | not shared | not shared | not shared | shared | shared |
| The Angel Experiment | shared | not shared | shared | not shared | not shared |
| The Maze Runner | shared | not shared | shared | not shared | not shared |
| Legend | shared | not shared | not shared | not shared | not shared |
| The Death Cure | shared | not shared | shared | shared | not shared |
| The Fever Code | shared | not shared | shared | shared | not shared |
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Where does The Hunger Games sit in its series? See the reading order.
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