16 Dystopian Books to Read If You Couldn't Put Down "The Hunger Games"

"Ready Player One" ($11, originally $18)

Ernest Cline's dystopian sci-fi novel takes place in the year 2045, where the world is a very bleak place, much like "The Hunger Games"'s Panem. Climate change has brought on a global energy crisis, and poverty, famine, disease, and war plague every nation. So the only place humanity can escape reality is in Oasis, a vast virtual-reality universe where protagonist Wade Watts is on the hunt for an Easter egg. But his search soon turns into a race to survive when the creator of the game dies and leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles to solve so one person can inherit his fortune — which includes total control of Oasis.