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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDeadman Wonderland, Volume 1
Jinsei Kataoka
Avengers Arena, Volume 2: Game On
Dennis Hopeless
"Awakening on an isolated island, a scared group of young superhumans-- including X-23, Darkhawk, and members o the Runaways and the Avengers Academy-- are given a chilling ultimatum by their demented captor Arcade: fight or die-- only one will walk out alive! Thus begins a primal battle that will test the skills, stamina and morals of each combatant" -- p. [4] of volume 1 cover.
Platinum End, Vol. 1
Tsugumi Ohba
As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle in which the winner becomes the next god of the world. Mirai has an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive.
Lockdown
Alexander Gordon Smith
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
Battle Royale, Vol. 01
Koushun Takami, Masayuki Taguchi · 216 pages
Yu Yu Hakusho, Volume 7: Knife-Edge Death Match
Yoshihiro Togashi · 200 pages
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman · 366 pages
"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin." The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropol
Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins · 382 pages
The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series! When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard ab
Avengers Arena, Volume 3: Boss Level
Dennis Hopeless, Christos Gage
The Glass Cell
Patricia Highsmith · 249 pages
In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate. A correspondence ensued between author and inmate, and Highsmith became fascinated with the psychological traumas that incarceration can inflict. Based on a true story, 'The glass cell' is Highsmith's fictionalization of everything she learned. Falsely convicted of fraud, the easy-going but naive Philip Carter is sent to priso
BTOOOM!, Vol. 1
Junya Inoue · 192 pages
Monster
Walter Dean Myers · 281 pages
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
The Twelve-Fingered Boy
John Hornor Jacobs · 280 pages
Fifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve is thriving in juvenile detention until he is assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, who just might have superpowers and who attracts the attention both of the cellblock bullies and sinister Mr. Quincrux.
The Son
Jo Nesbo · 401 pages
This novel is set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge. Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin, and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his unc
Battle Royale
Koushun Takami · 428 pages
Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan--where it became a runaway best seller--*Battle Ro
Scythe
Neal Shusterman · 448 pages
*Thou shalt kill.* A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “a
Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 1
Gege Akutami
The athletic Yuji Itadori chooses to spend his time with members of the Occult Research Club, who unseal a cursed object.
Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch
Kelly Sue DeConnick · 146 pages
A few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords results in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. But what happened on Earth that this new world order came to pass in the first place? Return to the grim corridors of Auxiliary Compliance Outpost #2, to uncover the first clues to the history of the world as we know it... and me