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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 311 times as competition)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,270,503 ratings — published 2008
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as competition)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,816,452 ratings — published 2012
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as competition)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,686,579 ratings — published 2012
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as competition)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,137,329 ratings — published 2011
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as competition)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,329,374 ratings — published 2009
The Elite (The Selection, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as competition)
avg rating 3.94 — 896,682 ratings — published 2013
The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as competition)
avg rating 4.25 — 818,360 ratings — published 2022
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as competition)
avg rating 3.97 — 976,701 ratings — published 2016
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as competition)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,096,058 ratings — published 2023
The One (The Selection, #3)
by (shelved 39 times as competition)
avg rating 4.14 — 799,928 ratings — published 2014
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as competition)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,342,828 ratings — published 2000
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as competition)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,950,492 ratings — published 2023
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as competition)
avg rating 4.11 — 63,818 ratings — published 2013
A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as competition)
avg rating 3.80 — 38,348 ratings — published 2022
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as competition)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,344,157 ratings — published 2011
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as competition)
avg rating 4.00 — 693,562 ratings — published 2023
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as competition)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,870,679 ratings — published 2010
Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 368,301 ratings — published 2024
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,304,325 ratings — published 2025
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
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avg rating 3.53 — 289,225 ratings — published 2020
The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
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avg rating 4.26 — 29,531 ratings — published 2022
Spin the Dawn (The Blood of Stars, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 66,367 ratings — published 2019
Check & Mate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 394,624 ratings — published 2023
All of Us Villains (All of Us Villains, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 46,034 ratings — published 2021
A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as competition)
avg rating 4.18 — 244,057 ratings — published 2016
The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.37 — 67,641 ratings — published 2025
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 975,880 ratings — published 2014
Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 376,944 ratings — published 2022
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 18 times as competition)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,300,108 ratings — published 2020
Warcross (Warcross, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 124,630 ratings — published 2017
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,486,753 ratings — published 2011
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as competition)
avg rating 4.08 — 512,987 ratings — published 2018
The Heir (The Selection, #4)
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avg rating 3.62 — 414,801 ratings — published 2015
Trial of the Sun Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 166,024 ratings — published 2023
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
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avg rating 4.43 — 611,332 ratings — published 2020
Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 119,832 ratings — published 2016
The Crown (The Selection, #5)
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avg rating 3.61 — 326,634 ratings — published 2016
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 4,582,143 ratings — published 2015
The Testing (The Testing, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 85,766 ratings — published 2013
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 197,131 ratings — published 2019
Shark vs. Train (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 6,134 ratings — published 2010
The Games Gods Play (The Crucible, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 106,308 ratings — published 2024
If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 60,316 ratings — published 2021
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as competition)
avg rating 4.23 — 363,229 ratings — published 2015
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as competition)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,153,574 ratings — published 2020
Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1)
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avg rating 3.53 — 29,672 ratings — published 2023
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 227,189 ratings — published 2021
Nyxia (The Nyxia Triad, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 14,582 ratings — published 2017
The Scorpio Races (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 114,921 ratings — published 2011
The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as competition)
avg rating 3.94 — 85,219 ratings — published 2024
“Most people, the minute they meet you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people – people they could get rid of.... Everyone is trying to reassure themselves: I'm not going to get kicked off the boat, they are. They're always separating people into two groups, allies and dispensable people... The number of people who want to understand what you're like instead of trying to figure out whether you get to stay on the boat - it's really limited.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
