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24 alternatives to Lord of the Flies
Some call it the "Hunger Games before Hunger Games"
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lord of the Flies launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The books are much better than the movies
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Pulitzer Prize winner, an American classic
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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National Book Award nomination for YA Literature 2015
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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INDIEFAB Book of the Year-nominated dystopian fiction novel
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The first book of the Witcher series
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Fight Hunger in a Game... And The Real World Too
2015 · hungercrunch.com · its alternatives →
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A call to arms to celebrate movies
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Novelization of the Back to the Future film
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A dystopian tale that will make you a feminist.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Dune▲62The science fiction masterpiece that defined a generation
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Armada▲94Brand new novel by Ernest Cline (author of Ready Player One)
2015 · penguinrandomhouse.com · its alternatives →
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Like Nir Eyal's "Hooked" but with more pictures, and evil.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Culling▲68Like the Hunger Games, but way more brutal
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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