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Lore

Alexandra Bracken · 480 pages

Deadly CompetitionTrials and TournamentsRevenge PlotYoung Adult
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The Warrior Heir

Cinda Williams Chima · 426 pages

After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultFantasy
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The Finisher

David Baldacci · 512 pages

Why would Quentin Herms flee into the Quag? There was nothing in the Quag except certain death. Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But this isn’t unusual — nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. Vega knows Quentin didn’t just leave — he was chased. And he’s left behind a very dangerous trail of clues that only

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultFantasy
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Lightlark (the Lightlark Saga Book 1)

Alex Aster · 432 pages

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Quillan Games

D.J. MacHale · 496 pages

With more questions than answers about Saint Dane, Bobby travels to the territory of Quillan and is forced to play games where only the winner survives.

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionFantasyYoung Adult
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An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir · 464 pages

"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultFantasy
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Vol. 4: Kaiba's Revenge

Kazuki Takahashi · 197 pages

When Yugi beat Kaiba at a collectible card game, he didn't know Kaiba was Japan's #1 gamer, heir to the Kaiba Corporation fortune, and a madman who would do anything for revenge. Now, a sleepover turns deadly as Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda, and Anzu must survive Kaiba's Death-T, a theme park of death designed just to kill Yugi.

Deadly CompetitionTrials and TournamentsRevenge PlotTeen Protagonist
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The Initiation

Chris Babu · 320 pages

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Red Rising

Pierce Brown · 400 pages

"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them." "I live for you," I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more." Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and hi

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionRevenge PlotYoung Adult
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Yu Yu Hakusho, Volume 7: Knife-Edge Death Match

Yoshihiro Togashi · 200 pages

Deadly CompetitionTrials and TournamentsTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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The Scorpio Races

Maggie Stiefvater · 435 pages

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different. She

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultFantasy
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The Sunbearer Trials

Aiden Thomas · 352 pages

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Powerless

Lauren Roberts · 528 pages

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites. The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to pr

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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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

Deadly CompetitionTrials and TournamentsYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Blood Red Road

Moira Young

To escape, she will have to fight. To survive, she will have to lead. Saba's world is shattered when her twin brother, Lugh, is captured by four cloaked horsemen. Determined to rescue him, Saba sets off into the lawless, wasted landscape left behind by the Wreckers. It's a brutal world where Saba discovers some surprising things about herself: She's a fierce fighter, a cunning opponent, and above

Deadly CompetitionTrials and TournamentsTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J.K. Rowling · 734 pages

The fourth book in the Harry Potter franchise sees Harry returning for his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione . There is an upcoming tournament between the three major schools of magic, with one participant selected from each school by the Goblet of Fire. When Harry's name is drawn, even though he is not eligible and is a fourth play

Deadly CompetitionTrials and TournamentsYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Sunrise on the Reaping Movie Tie-In

Suzanne Collins

The globally bestselling Sunrise on the Reaping storms the big screen in November 2026! "Sunrise on the Reaping is a propulsive, heart-wrenching addition to The Hunger Games, adding welcome texture to the cruel world of Panem . This is the project of dystopian fiction: to shine a light in tyranny's greasiest corners and show how people - ordinary, determined human beings - might take it apart" - N

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 336 pages

Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty — especially if they learn of her Sight — and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World

Bryan Lee O'Malley · 392 pages

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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Hunter x Hunter, Vol. 01

Yoshihiro Togashi, Fu Jian Yi Bo · 184 pages

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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The Testing

Joelle Charbonneau

Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in the Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out, her friends who do not pass the Testing disappear.

Deadly CompetitionTrials and TournamentsYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas · 428 pages

Lethal. Loyal. Legendary. Enter the world of Throne of Glass with the first book in the #1 bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas. In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves, and warriors i

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultFantasy
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Last Man: The Stranger

Bastien Vives, Michael Sanlaville, Balak · 207 pages

The Games are already underway when Richard Aldana arrives in town. This mysterious stranger seems to have more in common with our world than the world where the Games are held. He smokes cigarettes and wears a leather jacket while everyone else in this medieval realm is casting spells and weaving tapestries. Nobody knows what to make of him, but when Aldana enrolls in the games he quickly becomes

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionFantasyMale Lead
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Fire & Flood

Victoria Scott · 320 pages

Trials and TournamentsDeadly CompetitionYoung AdultTeen Protagonist

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