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• Dune by Frank Herbert.
  
  
• Riverworld by Philip Jose Farmer - somewhat of a longshot, but something made me think of it.
  
  
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
  
  
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
  
  
• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami.
  
  
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
  
  
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand .
  
  
• Neuromancer by William Gibson.
  
  
• The Running Man by Stephen King.
  
  You might even get a kick out of The Hunger Games or Divergent... And of course 1984 :)

For that particular class, I believe the assigned reading was:
>* Wastelands - John Joseph Adams

• The Crystal World - J. G. Ballard
  
• Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
  
• World Made By Hand - James Howard Kunstler
  
• It's Only Temporary - Eric Shapiro
  
  I also took a class on dystopian literature, which included:
  >* The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
  
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  
• The Children Of Men - P. D. James
  
• This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
  
• Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales - John Walters
  
• What Came After - Sam Winston
  
  Others I could recommend:
  >* Lost Horizon - James Hilton
  
• A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
  
• Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
  
• The Iron Heel - Jack London
  
• The Running Man - Stephen King
  
• Armageddon's Children - Terry Brooks
  
• The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
  
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
  
• 1984 - George Orwell
  
• Pretty much anything written by Kurt Vonnegut

The Running Man and The Long Walk are both Richard Bachman (Stephen King) books. The first thing I thought of when I heard about HG was "Oh, like a cross between The Long Walk, The Running Man, and Lord of the Flies."

The Running Man by Stephen King

There are a lot of dystopian future books that really aren't that similar to The Hunger Games or Divergent. Did you want books about people competing in cruel games in a dystopian future, or is it just the dystopian aspect you want to explore?

Either way, there's a huge field to choose from. Neuromancer. The Electric Church. The Running Man. Just to name a few.

This one? I actually read the book this past summer, it was a great read! I haven't completed a book before that in like a year, so it really reminded me what the imagination can do with just words. I can still visually picture the scenes, all from words.

I couldn't put it down, the chapters were literally 2-3 pages long, The suspense at times was taunting me to read just another chapter aha.

The Running Man is great! Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Running-Man-Stephen-King/dp/0451197968

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