Book recommendations please?

If you liked The Hunger Games, you could try Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, or Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

You could also try...

(1.) Divergent by Veronica Roth: http://www.amazon.com/Divergent-Veronica-Roth/dp/0... In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves… or it might destroy her.

(2.) Matched by Ally Condie: http://www.amazon.com/Matched-Ally-Condie/dp/05254... For Cassia, nothing is left to chance--not what she will eat, the job she will have, or the man she will marry. In Matched, the Society Officials have determined optimal outcomes for all aspects of daily life, thereby removing the "burden" of choice. When Cassia's best friend is identified as her ideal marriage Match it confirms her belief that Society knows best, until she plugs in her Match microchip and a different boy’s face flashes on the screen. This improbable mistake sets Cassia on a dangerous path to the unthinkable--rebelling against the predetermined life Society has in store for her. As author Ally Condie’s unique dystopian Society takes chilling measures to maintain the status quo, Matched reminds readers that freedom of choice is precious, and not without sacrifice.

(3.) Delirium by Lauren Oliver: http://www.amazon.com/Delirium-Special-Lauren-Oliv... Lena Haloway is content in her safe, government-managed society. She feels (mostly) relaxed about the future in which her husband and career will be decided, and looks forward to turning 18, when she’ll be cured of deliria, a.k.a. love. She tries not to think about her mother’s suicide (her last words to Lena were a forbidden “I love you”) or the supposed “Invalid” community made up of the uncured just beyond her Portland, Maine, border. There’s no real point—she believes her government knows how to best protect its people, and should do so at any cost. But 95 days before her cure, Lena meets Alex, a confident and mysterious young man who makes her heart flutter and her skin turn red-hot. As their romance blossoms, Lena begins to doubt the intentions of those in power, and fears that her world will turn gray should she submit to the procedure.

(4.) Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce: http://www.amazon.com/Sisters-Red-Jackson-Pearce/d... For Scarlett and Rosie March, the world is not what it seems. Werewolves, called Fenris, live among them in the form of good-looking men who prey on pretty young girls. When a Fenris attacked the March girls, it killed their grandmother and left them emotionally and, for Scarlett, physically scarred. Since then, they have taken action and revenge. With the help of a friend, Silas, the girls are on a mission—to destroy as many Fenris as they can. This goal becomes more complicated when they try to unravel the mystery behind the pack and prevent the next "Potential" from transforming fully into a soulless, evil monster. Pearce is on the mark with this modern-day retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Told by the sisters in alternating chapters, this well-written, high-action adventure grabs readers and never lets go. Rosie and Scarlett are true heroines; smart, tough, and determined, but their special bond is put to test when Rosie and Silas's relationship becomes more than just friendship.

I could go on and one, but here a few. I highly recommend "Sisters Red". :) Good luck with your reading!

Have you read the Eragon books by Paolini. they are a lot like Tolkien books very little romance mostly action. oh for very light reading the shadow children series they are meant for young children and should only take a day or two depending on how long you have to read to finish the series. It is written by Margaret peterson haddix. Anything by Tamora Pierce I love her Song of the Lioness. again that is targeted for young adults. the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and the sequel by Eoin Colfer called and another thing. most of John Ringo's books are good. George R. R. Martin's Fire and Ice Saga. the chronicles of thomas covenant but that is a heavy read. anything by Pierce anthony.very light reading is the narnia Chronicles. and I could go on but I will end with His dark materials series. do not judge the eragon or dark materials series by the movies they did not do them justice.

Raine Benares series by Lisa Shearin.

Avatars series by Tui T. Sutherland.

Dragonback series by Timothy Zahn.

Cold Magic by Kate Elliott.

Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale

Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones

Enchanted Forest series by Patricia C Wrede

we have the same favorites

~Human 4 by Mike A. Lancaster (Kyle volunteered to be hypnotized at a talent show but when he wakes up, his world is the same, Televisions and computers no longer work, but a strange language streams across their screens. Everyone’s behaving oddly. It’s as if Kyle doesn’t exit.)

~The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flammel (Two twins are discovered by Nicholas Flammel and they must defeat the people trying to take over the world.)

~The Maze Runner by James Dashner (a boy wakes up to find himself in an elevator. He doesn’t remember anything but his name, he finds out that he’s in a maze, and that every 30 days a new boy is put in the maze, nobody knows how to get out, until a girl comes along and may have some answers)

~Divergent by Veronica Roth (where people choose which group of people to go with at 16, the daredevils, the selfless, the clever... some romance)

~The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (It's always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Then she meets Henry. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld—and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.)

~Enclave by Ann Aquirre (In Deuce's world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed 'brat' has trained into one of three groups-Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the number of scars they have on their arms. Deuce has wanted to be a Huntress for as long as she can remember)

~The Long Walk by Stephen King (along with 99 other teen boys, Ray has entered the Long Walk, a march at four miles per hour that continues until only one person is standing. The losers get shot in the head)

~Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (Both Claudia and Finn are trapped, she’s the pampered daughter of a rich man and he’s an amnesiac boy in a gang, but they find a key that could mean that they can get out, if they can find the door)

~Reckless by Cornelia Funke (Jacob, whose father has been missing for more than a year, is 12 when he discovers how to use the mirror in his dad’s study as a portal to an alternate reality, 12 years later is brother comes along)

~Forgotten by Cat Patrick (at precisely 4:33 am every night, while London is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future.)

~Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (about a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.)

~The Forbidden Game by L.J Smith (To lose the game is to lose your life)

~Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (After two years on the run, best friends Rose, half-human/half-vampire, and Lissa, a mortal vampire princess, are caught and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, but it’s not like “ twilight” vampire book)

~The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (Mary's village is protected by a chain linked fence. On the other side of the fence are zombies,Mary wants to go to the other side to see the ocean, even if it means putting those she loves in danger)

The outsiders is a good book to read. Here's a summary:

Ponyboy Curtis belongs to a lower-class group of Oklahoma youths who call themselves greasers because of their greasy long hair. Walking home from a movie, Ponyboy is attacked by a group of Socs, the greasers’ rivals, who are upper-class youths from the West Side of town. The Socs, short for Socials, gang up on Ponyboy and threaten to slit his throat. A group of greasers comes and chases the bullies away, saving Ponyboy. Ponyboy’s rescuers include his brother Sodapop, a charming, handsome high-school dropout, and Darry, Ponyboy’s oldest brother (Darry assumed responsibility for his brothers when their parents were killed in a car crash). The rest of the greasers who come to Ponyboy’s rescue are Johnny, a sensitive sixteen-year-old; Dally, a hardened street hood with a long criminal record; Steve, Sodapop’s best friend; and Two-Bit, the oldest and funniest group member.

* Really good book and i definitely recommend it! Hope you will like the outsiders (:

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* Another good read would be: Trapped In ice if your into adventure, history, survival, that kind of stuff. Really good book, read it for a language class project and i LOVED it. Hopefully you will like it and i definitely recommend it to anyone. Here's a summary:

An adventure story, Trapped in Ice is a fictionalized account of a real 1913 Canadian Arctic expedition that included a 13-year-old girl, Helen, her younger brother, and their seamstress mother. The expedition ran into trouble from the beginning. Abandoned by their leader and frozen in the ice, their ship, the Karluk, drifted away from land. When the ship was eventually crushed, the crew had to make an arduous journey across moving ice to land to await rescue. The ship’s captain, Robert Bartlett, the only one with Arctic experience, made an epic sled journey to Siberia to get help.

Hope you will enjoy these two books, im not a big reader myself, but I really loved them! (:

in case you like the parable form, indexed below are some concepts. the 1st of the series is in parenthesis. Harry Potter series (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) with the aid of JK Rowling His dark components series (The Golden Compass) with the aid of Phillip Pullman The starvation video games with the aid of Suzanne Collins The Books Of Pellinor (The Naming/present) with the aid of Alison Croggon Abarat with the aid of Clive Barker The Tricksters series (Trickster's decision) with the aid of Tamora Pierce

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella

Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella

The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks

The Choice by Nicholas Sparks

The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks

A Bend In The Road by Nicholas Sparks

The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks

Along For The Ride by Sarah Dessen

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

Keeping The Moon by Sarah Dessen

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

The Beautiful Between by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Cruel Summer by Alyson Noel

Flirting With Boys by Hailey Abbott

The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han (sequel to The Summer I Turned Pretty)

North Of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg

Boys, Girls And Other Hazardous Materials by Rosalind Wiseman

Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott

Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott

The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott

Two-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt

The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart

Rules Of The Road by Joan Bauer

Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer (sequel to Rules of The Road)

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Lost It by Kristen Tracy

When It Happens by Susane Colasanti

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

Boys Next Door by Jennifer Echols

Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

Labor of Love by Rachel Hawthorne

Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by Jody Gehrman

Triple Shot Betty’s In Love by Jody Gehrman

A Field Guide for Heartbreakers by Kristen Tracy

My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter

Meet Me at the Boardwalk by Erin Haft

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Forever... by Judy Blume

The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams

Hold Still by Nina LaCour

Jumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles

Forget You by Jennifer Echols

What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones

What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones

The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

Love and Other Four-Letter Words by Carolyn Mackler

The Last Summer (Of Me and You) by Ann Brashares

hb Halo by Alexandra Adornetto.... i liked this book :)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7778981-halo

OR

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6339664-hush-hu...

SERIES:

The Maze Runner by James Dashner:

-The Maze Runner

-The Scorch Trials

-The Death Cure (to be released in October 2011)

I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore:

-I am Number Four (don't judge it by the movie, the book is far better)

-The Power of Six

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket:

-The Bad Beginning

-The Reptile Room

-The Wide Window

-The Miserable Mill

-The Austere Academy

-The Ersatz Elevator

-The Vile Village

-The Hostile Hospital

-The Carnivorous Carnival

-The Slippery Slope

-The Grim Grotto

-The Penultimate Peril

-The End

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau:

-The City of Ember

-The People of Sparks

-The Prophet of Yonwood

-The Diamond of Darkhold

Witch and Wizard by James Patterson:

-Witch and Wizard

-Witch and Wizard: The Gift

-Witch and Wizard: The Fire (to be released December 5, 2011)

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart:

-The Mysterious Benedict Society

-The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

-The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilema

BOOKS:

-Thirteen Days to Midnight by Patrick Carman

-Genesis by Bernard Beckett

-The Compound by S.A. Bodeen

-The ROAR by Emma Clayton

-feed by M.T. Anderson

-It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

-Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini

-A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

-The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

-The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

-The Book Theif by Marcus Zusack

-Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

-VIRALS by Kathy Reiches

-Coraline by Neil Gaiman

-M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman

-The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

-The House of the Scorpian by Nancy Farmer

-Paper Towns by John Green

-Looking for Alaska by John Green

-An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

-Hit and Run by Lurlene McDaniel

-Killing Brittany by Sean Olin

-The Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter

-Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rebecca Cohn

-Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rebecca Cohn

-Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by David Levithan and Rebecca Cohn

-Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

-The Giver by Lowis Lowry