Finished reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and desperate for something else? The teens of the Starkville Public Library have a few suggestions for you, though they caution that "these books may not be as good."
Feed by M.T. Anderson
"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor.
"You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you."
Hatter M by Frank Beddor
"For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other."
Eve by Anna Carey
“I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.”
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?"
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
“Clary wondered if there were any ugly vampires, or maybe any fat ones. Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.”
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
"Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it."
Matched by Ally Condie
"Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?"
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
"He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air."
Adventure of Meno by Tony and Angela DiTerlizzi
"Every fun is a big fun with Meno!"
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
"Freedom is something you have to take for yourself."
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
"Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. "
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
"Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man you think you know."
Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill
"Durango is playing the cards he was dealt. And it’s not a good hand. He’s lost his family. He’s lost his crew. And he’s got the scars to prove it. You don’t want to mess with Durango."
The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
"All this happened many years ago, before the streets were air-conditioned."
Gone by Michael Grant
"One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion."
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
"In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three."
Epic by Conor Kostick
"If it's bleeding then kill it, if it's not bleeding, then make it bleed and kill it."
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
"There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. "
Twilight: The Graphic Novel by Stephani Meyer and Young Kim
"I'd never given much thought to how I would die - though I'd had reason enough in the last few months..."
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
"But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again. "
One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
"All I have left is my destiny. My name may be infamous, but it's going to shake the world!"
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
"It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure."
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
"I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open."
The Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce
"I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone. "
Larklight by Phillip Reeve
"Later, while I was facing the Potter Moth, or fleeing for my life from the First Ones, or helping man a cannon aboard Jack Havock's brig Sophronia, I would often think back to the way my life used to be, and to that last afternoon at Larklight, before all our misfortunes began."
Divergent by Veronica Roth
"....sometimes it isn’t fighting that’s brave, it’s facing the death you know is coming."
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
"I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere!"
A Long Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan
"I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up."
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
"Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. They went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers."
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
"Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty."
Blood Red Road by Moira Young
"I’ll take any chance at all. A guard lookin th’other way. A door left open at the right time. Anythin. They can slam me in the Cooler all they like. I only gotta git lucky once."
All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin
"Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road."
