The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
2008
Books with the “Tournament” trope
Characters compete in a contest or tournament, often with deadly stakes.
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Plot twists · Tournament
Books with this trope
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas
2012
The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake
2020
Divergent
Veronica Roth
2011
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
2015
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend
2017
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent
2022
The Greatest Knight
Elizabeth Chadwick
2005
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
2014
Caraval
Stephanie Garber
2017
The Selection
Kiera Cass
2012
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
2020
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