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If You're Missing "Squid Game"... try these reads!
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The plotters
by Un-su Kim
In an alternate-reality Seoul, South Korea, assassination guilds compete for market dominance. By a prize-winning author.
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Arena
by Holly Jennings
A first woman captain of a team of gaming warriors participating in the world's most elite competition discovers that the real and virtual worlds of the Virtual Gaming League are built around dangerous secrets.
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Docile
by K. M. Szpara
To erase family debt, Elisha Wilder has his contract purchased by the man whose wealthy family is the brains behind a drug that turns people into Dociles, or people kept, body and soul, for the uses of their owners
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The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place
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The running man
by Richard Bachman
In 2025 America, Ben Richards contends in the nation's most popular television game show, "The Running Man," in which contestants attempt to evade lethal hunters in order to win a one-billion-dollar jackpot
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Endgame : the calling
by James Frey
After preparing their entire lives, twelve teenagers must come to terms with the arrival of the life-or-death game that will allow them to save a select group of people from the end of the world.
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Ace of spades
by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
A contemporary thriller by a debut author follows two Niveus Private Academy students who, selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, are pitted against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets.
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The assassin game
by Kirsty McKay
"At Cate's isolated boarding school, Killer Game is a tradition. Only a select few are invited to play. They must avoid being killed by a series of thrilling pranks, and identify the murderer. But this time, it's different: the game stops feeling fake and starts getting dangerous and Cate's the next target. Can they find the culprit ... before it's too late?"
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The grace year
by Kim Liggett
Tierney James struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry
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All your twisted secrets
by Diana Urban
Invited to a mysterious scholarship dinner, six very different high school students find themselves trapped in a room where one of them must die to save the lives of the others
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Sword art online progressive. 001
by Kiseki Himura
Yuuki Asuna was a top student who spent her days at cram school and preparing for her high school entrance exams—but that was before she wound up trapped in the virtual-reality game Sword Art Online with 10,000 other frightened players—and soon her scholarly abilities earn her a place on the front lines with the best players, including pro gamer Kirito.
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Gone
by Michael Grant
When everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears from a California town, a battle erupts between the remaining residents and the students from a local school, as well as those who have "The Power" and those who do not.
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Warcross
by Marie Lu
A teen hacker and competitive bounty hunter who tracks down rule breakers of a wildly popular alternate-reality game accidentally glitches herself into a championship tournament, where she becomes an overnight sensation before being recruited as a spy for the game's billionaire developer.
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The only child : a novel
by Mi-ae S¿
When serial killer Yi Byeongdo asks to speak to her, and her husband’s 11-year-old daughter from a previous marriage shows up at their door, criminal psychologist Seonkyeong starts to unravel the pasts of the two new arrivals in her life and begins to see startling similarities.
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Lord of the flies : a novel
by William Golding
The classical study of human nature depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys, aged 6 to 12, who are marooned on a tropical island after a plane crash. Original.
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The lottery and other stories
by Shirley Jackson
A collection of twenty-five tales exploring a world of horror and the macabre features the author's haunting story of a small town's yearly ritual of evil
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The Maze Runner
by James Dashner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
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City of thieves : a novel
by David Benioff
Documenting his reluctant grandparents' experiences during the infamous siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he endeavored to secure their pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.
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