Fantasy

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. The first of a projected trilogy introduces a post-apocalyptic world where harsh realities are masked by manipulative pop culture, and teenagers are selected by lottery each year to compete in televised mortal combat.

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Last Battle of the Icemark: the Icemark Chronicles by Stuart Hill. Medea has been banished to the Darkness by her father but the Darkness has not killed her. In the third book of this series Medea is ready to challenge her father and all who stood beside him in his quest to spread the Darkness throughout the world. Other books in the series include The Cry of the Icemark and Blade of Fire.