Best Epic Hunger Games Fanfics
Hunger Games fanfics over 100,000 words — the reader-favorite epics that define the fandom. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 14 Epic Hunger Games Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. These are the Hunger Games epics readers come back to. Save them for offline reading.
Afterburn
by BlueMaple
Katniss Everdeen-Mellark goes to the woods surrounding New Appalachia, a.k.a the former District Twelve, on the morning of the fiftieth anniversary of the final Reaping of the Hunger Games. There, she is literally waylaid by her own past, and wakes in the past, six weeks before Primrose was first R
Invictus
by EllanaSan
“So then, before I can even think about doing something stupid like trying to stab him with his fucking golden paperknife, he gives me a choice, see?" Haymitch continued, almost detached. "Either I play nice like all the other victors or he will kill my family. I could either become his puppet – gre
Mind Wipe
by EllanaSan
The woman was born in a world of velvety white. Her world was a finite thing. Four walls of padded fabric that was oh so soft under her fingertips, a cold hard floor and a ceiling too high to touch.It was silent in her world.
The Weight of Guilt
by TeaSleuth
Two years after the end of the rebellion, Effie's psychiatrist suggests she visit District 12 to address and heal her self-hatred and guilt due to her part in the Games. Effie finds she's not the only one struggling with guilt in District 12.Post Mockingjay, and Sunrise on the Reaping compliant (sor
Inside The Mentor’s Room
by Giana3842
Every year, the tributes fight in the Hunger Games arenas. Every year, the citizens of Panem and the Capital watch. And every year, the mentors have to watch from the mentors room, famed Victors themselves, and almost entirely unable to bring home another Victor. Nobody’s ever said that a Victor’s l
Una historia diferente | En llamas
by writerdyke
Incapaz de negar sus sentimientos un segundo más, y aún sabiendo que el Presidente Snow quiere su cabeza, Katniss Everdeen, la chica en llamas, decide dejar a Peeta Mellark, el chico del pan, entrar en su corazón.Ahora, a punto de enfrentar los juegos una segunda vez, está dispuesta a dar su vida si
The Glow of Water
by musahip
"Don't let them take away what makes you the most human of all; the ability to love, to create meaning, to make memories." Finnick Odair has to face to a wave of horrors that he can't even conceive of when he is reaped as a fourteen year old boy. From that day on he starts unspooling a web of secr
The Kingfisher
by laurialy
Some say that at the end of the summer, kingfishers carry the spirits of the dead away.In District Four, the birds are never innocent in that. Folktales paint them as something cruel, too fancy to be trusted, tied to myths of abandoned pregnant women. And though some would say carrying the dead is j
Not So Pure
by EverlarkAlways08
Katniss Everdeen is sick and tired of being called a 'pure' and 'innocent' just because her father is the pastor of their local church. She decides to take matters into her own hands, approaching Peeta Mellark one day after school, notorious bad boy and the type of boy that her father warns her to s
The Hunger Games
by your_girl_angi
Alina Volkov enters the Hunger Games with one mission: disappear beneath the surface, watch, calculate—and strike when no one sees her coming, but most importantly win. But when her cold precision catches the Capitol’s attention, she is drawn into a far more dangerous game. One that doesn’t end in t
Different Worlds
by EverlarkAlways08
Katniss and Peeta are from two completely different worlds, in theory, he should hate her, be threatened by her but as he gets to know her, he finds that there's so much to the girl who wonders the woods than the stories tell everyone. Set in the Ancient Greek Era (keep in mind it's a fanfiction so
The Weight of the Crown
by Scrambledcookie
Book 2 of The Price of Survival Winning the 74th Hunger Games wasn't the end of the nightmare; it was just the beginning of a different kind of war. After surviving the arena together, Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne returned to District 12 as Victors, but the crowns they wear feel more like noo
Ever In Your Favor
by EStrunk
In the Epilogue Katniss was just guessing what would happen next. But she didn't see what was coming. Here's what really happened!PeetaxKatniss, then KatnissxGaleI love Peeta and think the relationship between Katniss and Peeta is beautiful. Don't want to give spoilers, but things happen that none o
The Toll of Freedom
by Scrambledcookie
The path of the revolution is a cold, calculated prison of its own. Safe behind the walls of District 13, Katniss Everdeen fights a losing battle against her mind, struggling to become the polished Mockingjay high command demands. Around her, the surviving victors try to piece together their shatter
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This list of 14epic Hunger Games fanfics spans 2,659,059 total words. Kudos range from 19 on the newest entries to 5,889 on the most established. 43% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (4 of 14 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Canon-Typical Violence · everlark · POV Katniss Everdeen · Hunger Games.
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