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The Hunger Games was a pretty good book and is a quick read. The second two books, Catching Fire and Mockingjay are absolutely awful and I wouldn't recommend you bother reading them. The Hunger Games, for the most part, can be read as a stand alone book.
I don't know if you're looking for purely Earth (or Earth as we know it) type dystopian books but Jeff VanderMeer wrote a fantasy trilogy based on a place called Ambergris. Each book can be read on its own but I'd suggest reading it in the order of City of Saints and Madmen first, then Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch last.
Another quick read is The Postmortal by Drew Magary which was nominated for the 2011 Philip K. Dick award. The story follows a man who lives in a time where a cure for aging has been developed and is written almost in a series of blog styled entries.
Battle Royale is a book about a totalitarian Japan which implements a new military research project that allows a teacher to make his class fight each other to death until there is only one survivor.
These are only a few so if they're not what you're looking for, I know some more.
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