Battle Royale

Title: Battle Royale
Author: Koushun Takami (translated from Japanese to English by Yuji Oniki)
Recommended by: Andy Theiss

This book's about an oppressive government that runs a "Program" once a year, where one class of 40 students is selected , they're given weapons, and they battle each other to the death. This book follows one class's participation in "The Program". It's a pretty long book, but it reads really quickly, and is full of action. And it's not just flash and gore, the book deals pretty well with the state of mind, paranoia, and fatigue of all the students.

Andy Theiss let me borrow this book on a plane trip, and I felt I couldn't get enough time with it. I'd sit down to start reading, and time would fly by.

Recommendation: Pretty intense while also being thought provoking! 8/10.