The Hunger Games (novel)/Fanfic Recs

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Authors, and Websites

Electrumqueen

• Recommended by Clandestine Clear
• Pairing(s): Various
• Comments: Electrumqueen captures the desperate, somber atmosphere of the Hunger Games perfectly. Her writing is very poetic, very poignant, and very beautiful.

Be-nice-to-nerds

• Recommended by Analiza
• Comments: A very good writer who manages to get inside the head of every single character she writes. "No One Left" and "Fearful to Fearsome", both focused on Johanna Mason, are two of the best fanfics this Troper has ever read.

The entries for the Pearl Awards ^{[dead link]}

• Recommended by Clandestine Clear
• Comments: The Pearl Awards is fanfiction and fanart competition where entries have to be nominated to get in, so most of the fics submitted are well-written and worthy of recs. In addition, there are different categories for fics e.g. Best One-Shot, Best Comedy, Best Author etc.

Gethsemane342

• Recommended by Obiwanlivesforever
• Comments: Gethsemane covers a wide range of characters and topics, bringing life and personality to some of the most minor tributes in the series. She has created a vast web of interlocking OCs and plots referenced throughout her stories, maintaining the authenticity of her fanon universe. In my opinion, "Sponsors," "Game Over," and "The Person He Never Was," are her finest work.

General Fics

Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.

No Accident by Rhythm and Blues

• Recommended by: knightinshiningdots
• Status: In progress. Frequent updates.
• Rating: T. Allusions to prostitution, mildly disturbing death scene.
• Summary: The story of Annie Cresta, the rebellion she incited, and its death with her victory. Canon compliant.

Much More Important Things by elithewho

• Recommended by: Clandestine Clear
• Characters/pairing(s): OC, mentions of Katniss and Peeta
• Summary: Starlight should be doing her homework, but she really has much more important things to do with her time.

Volts by Heart the Squid

• Recommended by Analiza
• Status: Complete
• Summary: A story from Beetee's point of view, starting with the day his name is drawn for the Games, going through his years as a mentor, the Quarter Quell, and the rebellion.

Twenty-Four Victors, Twenty-Four Tributes: Meet Your Quarter Quell Contestants

• Recommended by Analiza
• Status: Complete.
• Summary: Twenty-four short (ranging from a sentence to about a page) pieces of writing about each of the twenty-four victors in the 75th Hunger Games.

Just Another Piece in the Games by Winter Echoes

• Recommended by: Discovery
• Status: Complete
• Summary: So many tributes died in the Hunger Games, and although we never gave a second thought to most, they all have a story. One-shot about a certain tribute's last day in the arena that proves that things, and people, aren't always the way they seem.

The Beauty of Freedom and its sequels, The Illusion of Freedom and The Dream of Freedom by Caisha702. (Rated T for violence and forced prostitution.)

• Recommended by: Obiwanlivesforever
• Status: Entire trilogy complete
• Summary: History will remember me as the first to be chosen for the Victor's Quarter Quell. It will forget that my story has a beginning as well as an end, but a beginning it has and this is it. This is the 66th Hunger Games. This is my story.

The Flaw in the Plan by PK 9

• Recommended by: Obiwanlivesforever
• Status: Complete
• Summary: Before the berries, the rule change, even Rue's flowers, he did something that no one had ever imagined in 73 years of Hunger Games, and so became a contender, until Katniss Everdeen ruined everything. The untold story of Landmine Boy from District 3.

Peeta Mellark's Five Favorite Things to Bake by aimmyarrowshigh

• Recommended by: cedarleaf
• Summary: Peeta keeps his memories and the people he loves alive in the things he bakes.

Unintended by Caisha702

• Recommended by: Obiwanlivesforever
• Status: In progress
• Rating: T
• Summary: If someone told me before the war I'd end up where I am now, I'd have said they were mad. I never expected to be more than just another District 8 factory worker. But then I became a rebel who became a president and everything changed **Paylor's story**

Career: A Hunger Games story by Technomad

• Recommended by Eoppen
• Summary: This is the POV of a Career Tribute, from an unspecified district, in the Seventieth Hunger Games.

Panem by gethsemane342

• Recommended by Nothingtoseehere
• Summary: A collection of oneshots about pretty much every character in the books. From Plutarch to Gloss, each gets a glimpse through their eyes.

Shipping Fics

Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.

Scylla and Charybdis by Mithrigil and Puella_Nerdii (rated R for sex, drug use, violence, and forced prostitution)

• Recommended by: Clandestine Clear
• Pairing(s): Finnick/Annie
• Summary: Finnick decides that, come hell or high water, he is bringing his tribute home from the seventieth Hunger Games. That tribute is Annie Cresta. But Finnick never thought that he would have to choose between bringing her home and keeping her safe, and he wants both. How Annie Cresta crept up on Finnick Odair.

Five Words Peeta Only Says at Night by aimmyarrowshigh

• Recommended by: cedarleaf
• Pairings: Katniss/Peeta
• Summary: She had never been a very talkative girl, but she found ways to share her thoughts with Peeta when it counted (and to Peeta, her thoughts always counted for quite a lot). She was a hard girl, on first blush, but she was always soft and gentle with Peeta – ever since the cave. She likes the way his fingertips always smell of vanilla and sugar and he knows that, although she'd never admit it. A girl like Katniss – always covered in forest dirt and calluses – was not supposed to want a man who smelled of vanilla and sugar. But Katniss had chosen him over the man who smelled of leather and pine. And Peeta never took that for granted.

Stars And The Moon by LetTheSunshineIn

• Recommended by: newyorkcityblackout
• Pairings: Finnick/Annie
• Summary: "I'd like to go there... someday." Annie loves the sky, and Finnick can tell her almost as much about it as he can the sea. Also known as total Fannie fluff.

Oh, Fury Loves Company by prettyworthless

• Warnings: Rated M for language and violence.
• Pairings: Clove/Cato
• Recommended by: jewelia13
• Summary: "He can see himself breaking her bones and stroking the rushes of her blood as they dissipate and it consumes him, the all-encompassing desire of having her on his hands. Finally, finally, this is our moment of glory."

Alternate Universe Fics

Stories about what could have been, or what might be in the future.

The Capitol Games by Vividly Visceral (Rated T for graphic violence)

• Recommended by: The Signature Thief
• Summary: This Quarter Quell will be the most difficult. They're the tributes, the tributes who- never in a million years, thought they'd fight in the Hunger Games. Why? Because these are the CAPITOL'S children being reaped this time. And this'll be quite a show...

Fox Games by Farla

• Recommended by: Fool
• Summary: The last two tributes may both make it home. Peeta tries one of the berries when he finds the bushes, and Katniss is left to decide.

How Rue Became the Mockingjay by aimmyarrowshigh

• Recommended by: Caellach Tiger Eye
• Summary: She's teamed up with the little girl instead of the boy who loves her. Katniss Everdeen and the girl from Eleven are ruining their best-laid plans. So, "Caesar," they say, "Announce the change." -This is an alternate chronology for The Hunger Games.-

Zero Sum by Ember A. Keelty

• Recommended by: Fool
• Summary: Rue survives the District 1 boy's attack. For Katniss, this turns out to be horribly inconvenient.

To the Victor, the Spoil by Annakovsky

• Warnings: (Possibly, depending on your location) underage sex, large age-difference, attempted suicide, and references to prostitution, pedophilia, and a tiny bit of slash.
• Recommended by: Yessiika
• Summary: No berries, no mockingjay, no rebellion. Katniss killed Peeta in the arena, and now she has to live with herself like every other victor.

Grow Together by Miss Scarlett 05

• Warnings: its rated T, but there isn't too much
• Status: In progress.
• Summary: What happened during the Epilogue of Mockingjay? How DID Katniss and Peeta Grow back together. This is meant to be like a 4th book.

Dark Toast by aimmyarrowshigh

• Recommended by: plumsiren
• Warnings: Rated M. Character death, suicide, mentions of domestic abuse, hints at dub-con.
• Status: This part is complete, though the series overall is still in progress.
• Pairings: Katniss/Peeta and others
• Summary: How Katniss and Peeta fell in love without the Reaping: in a Panem dictated by a violent Peace instead of twisted Games, Katniss and Peeta Mellark try to piece their lives together as they watch another girl catch fire.

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