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** And then, of course, there's ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' itself, which a few bloggers have ripped on for being an apparent ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' ripoff. However, ''Battle Royale'' doesn't have [[Literature/LordOfTheFlies too]] [[Literature/TheRunningMan original]] [[TheLongWalk a premise]] either, and there are an equal amount of differences as there are similarities. Either way, the two series have got quite a FandomRivalry going on, with a quiet minority liking both. Oddly enough, the debate is almost never "which is better", but rather "is it a ripoff". ''Battle Royale'' fans tend to disrespect the series even more for having a love triangle and tend to regard ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' fans as being no different from the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' crowd.

** The series caused a boom in the YA vampire genre. Notable examples include P.C. Cast's ''TheHouseOfNight'' series, Richelle Mead's ''Literature/VampireAcademy'' series, and Melissa de la Cruz's ''Blue Bloods'' series, each having [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a wildly different take on the vampire mythos.]] Not only that, but it caused a surge of YA ParanormalRomance in general, or at least "angsty teenage girl falls in love with the hot new boy at her school who turns out to have a supernatural secret" plots: ''Literature/HushHush'' (supernatural secret: angels), ''Fallen'' series (angels again), ''Literature/TheImmortalsSeries'' ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin immortals]]), ''[[Literature/BeautifulCreatures The Caster Chronicles]]'' ([[GenderFlip genderflipped]] and with witches) ...

* After the success of ''GossipGirl'' and the subsequent TV series, many more novels about rich white teenage girls (with a TokenMinority or two) in private schools have been made. Some of the imitators include ''TheClique'', the ''Literature/{{Private}}'' series, and ''Literature/PrettyLittleLiars''.

** The series caused a boom in the YA vampire genre. Notable examples include P.C. Cast's ''TheHouseOfNight'' series, Richelle Mead's ''VampireAcademy'' series, and Melissa de la Cruz's ''Blue Bloods'' series, each having [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a wildly different take on the vampire mythos.]] Not only that, but it caused a surge of YA ParanormalRomance in general, or at least "angsty teenage girl falls in love with the hot new boy at her school who turns out to have a supernatural secret" plots: ''Literature/HushHush'' (supernatural secret: angels), ''Fallen'' series (angels again), ''Literature/TheImmortalsSeries'' ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin immortals]]), ''[[Literature/BeautifulCreatures The Caster Chronicles]]'' ([[GenderFlip genderflipped]] and with witches) ...

** The series caused a boom in the YA vampire genre. Notable examples include P.C. Cast's ''TheHouseOfNight'' series, Richelle Mead's ''Vampire Academy'' series, and Melissa de la Cruz's ''Blue Bloods'' series, each having [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a wildly different take on the vampire mythos.]] Not only that, but it caused a surge of YA ParanormalRomance in general, or at least "angsty teenage girl falls in love with the hot new boy at her school who turns out to have a supernatural secret" plots: ''Literature/HushHush'' (supernatural secret: angels), ''Fallen'' series (angels again), ''Literature/TheImmortalsSeries'' ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin immortals]])...

* The success of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has created a market for many new YoungAdult {{Dystopia}} novels with female leads and an emphasis on romance. To name a few: ''Literature/LegendTrilogy'' by Marie Lu, ''Shatter Me'' by Tahereh Mafi, ''Literature/{{Matched}}'' by Ally Condie, ''Wither'' by Lauren [=DeStefano=], ''Enclave'' by Ann Aguirre, ''Under the Never Sky'' by Veronica Rossi, and ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' by Veronica Roth. Many of these also hold to ''Literature/TheHungerGames'''s structure: 16-year old ActionGirl protagonist, present-tense first-person narration, love interest (though a surprising lack of love triangles), and angst.

* The non-fiction book ''The World Without Us'' (2007), whose premise is showing what would happen to the world if all humans suddenly vanished one day, was followed by two 2008 documentaries that were basically ''The World Without Us'' with the serial numbers filled off: ''LifeAfterPeople'' and ''{{Aftermath}}: Population Zero'' (each would later give birth to full TV series, with only ''Life'' staying true to the original premise). After that there was a noticeable shift in post-apocalyptic fiction from sterile, gray or [[RealIsBrown brown]] settings often brought by nuclear warfare to "green" overgrown cities where humans had been [[DepopulationBomb decimated by some disease]] and/or anarchy, but everything else was doing alright: ''IAmLegend'' (2007), ''TheLastOfUs'' (2011), ''{{Revolution}}'', ''TokyoJungle'' (2012) and ''[[RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes Dawn of the Planet of the Apes]]'' (2014).

* The non-fiction book ''The World Without Us'' (2007), whose premise is showing what would happen to the world if all humans suddenly vanished one day, was followed by two 2008 documentaries that were basically ''The World Without Us'' with the serial numbers filled off: ''LifeAfterPeople'' and ''{{Aftermath}}: Population Zero'' (each would later give birth to full TV series, with only ''Life'' staying true to the original premise). After that there was a noticeable shift in post-apocalyptic fiction from sterile, gray or [[RealIsBrown brown]] settings often brought by nuclear warfare to "green" overgrown cities where humans had been [[DepopulationBomb decimated by some disease]], but everything else was doing alright: ''IAmLegend'' (2007), ''TheLastOfUs'' (2011), ''TokyoJungle'' (2012) and ''[[RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes Dawn of the Planet of the Apes]]'' (2014).

* The success of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has created a market for many new YoungAdult {{Dystopia}} novels with female leads and an emphasis on romance. To name a few: ''Legend'' by Marie Lu, ''Shatter Me'' by Tahereh Mafi, ''Literature/{{Matched}}'' by Ally Condie, ''Wither'' by Lauren [=DeStefano=], ''Enclave'' by Ann Aguirre, ''Under the Never Sky'' by Veronica Rossi, and ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' by Veronica Roth. Many of these also hold to ''Literature/TheHungerGames'''s structure: 16-year old ActionGirl protagonist, present-tense first-person narration, love interest (though a surprising lack of love triangles), and angst.

* The incredible success of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has led to a glut of children's fantasy and, while it isn't the first school for wizards, it is certainly the inspiration for many. ''Literature/HarryPotter's'' success also persuaded authors and publishers to write longer and more complex young-adult literature. This is a very good example that [[TropesAreTools this isn't actually a bad thing]] -- the success of ''Harry Potter'' told authors and publishers that yes, young-adult literature can be enjoyed by a PeripheryDemographic of adults, and that adolescents ''do'' have enough of an attention span to read a DoorStopper novel if it interests them enough.[[hottip:*: To put it in a bit of perspective, aside from a few examples like ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'', young-adult novels were ''rarely'' above three hundred pages. Some publishers actually thought kids wouldn't have the attention span to read a book if it was over two hundred.]]

* George Orwell's revolutionizing book, Literature/''NineteenEightyFour''. One of the most popular books in history to the point of being repeatedly treated as [[MagnumOpus the "Citizen Kane" of Literature]]. It was inevitable that from then on to even today, there are writers making stories about {{Dystopia}}n PoliceState [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Worlds]], with the only twist being that their protagonists win in the end. It gets even more stereotypical if it floats towards IssueDrift like Orwell was doing, [[AuthorTract except it's taken way too seriously]]. Books like ''The Hunger Games'' owe all their premises to this trope.

* While the whole fictional-story-written-as-a-journal/diary is nothing new, Jeff Kinney's ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' series has at least two major imitators: Rachel Renee Russell's ''Literature/DorkDiaries'' and Lincoln Peirce's ''Big Nate.''

* Though not as successful as ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', ''{{Graceling}}'', a well-acclaimed YA fantasy series, has inspired YoungAdult authors to hit the fantasy route rather than {{Dystopia}}. One of the most popular ones is Leigh Bardugo's ''Shadow and Bone''.

** Other humorous graphic novel/children's novel hybrid series that have followed in Greg Heffley's wake include ''Middle School'' (JamesPatterson), ''Tales of a Sixth Grade [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]]'', ''Timmy Failure'' ([[PearlsBeforeSwine Stephan Pastis]]), and '''two''' ''Franchise/StarWars''-inspired series in ''Origami Yoda'' and ''Jedi Academy''.

** Other graphic novel/children's novel hybrid series that have followed in Greg Heffley's wake include JamesPatterson's ''Middle School'', ''Tales of a Sixth Grade [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]]'', ''Franchise/StarWars Jedi Academy'', and [[PearlsBeforeSwine Stephan Pastis's]] ''Timmy Failure''.

** Other graphic novel/children's novel hybrid series that have followed in Greg Heffley's wake include JamesPatterson's ''Middle School'', ''Tales of a Sixth Grade [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]]'', ''Franchise/StarWars Jedi Academy'', and [[NewspaperComics/PearlsBeforeSwine Stephan Pastis's]] ''Timmy Failure''.

** Other graphic novel/children's novel hybrid series that have followed in Greg Heffley's wake include Creator/JamesPatterson's ''Middle School'', ''Tales of a Sixth Grade [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]]'', and ''Franchise/StarWars Jedi Academy''.

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** And of course, there have been people claiming that ''Literature/HarryPotter'' itself ripped off something else, though what exactly it is varies between the detractor. They include: the infamous ''Literature/TheLegendOfRahAndTheMuggles'', ''[[Literature/EarthseaTrilogy A Wizard of Earthsea]]'', Creator/JaneYolen's ''Literature/WizardsHall'', ''Tom Brown's School Days'', ''Literature/GrooshamGrange'' and even the SoBadItsGood movie ''Film/{{Troll}}''. And loads more. The irony here is that Creator/JKRowling couldn't have ripped off all of them at once, and it often tends to imply that ''they'' were instead ripping off ''each other''. While a WizardingSchool was never a new trope, there's nothing older than ''Harry Potter'' to which it's ''exactly'' similar.

* ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies'' and ''Literature/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'' spawned a number of works mashing up public domain stories and characters with pulp conventions -- see LiteraryMashUps for a list. The knock-offs even spread to Brazil, with ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mem%C3%B3rias_P%C3%B3stumas_de_Br%C3%A1s_Cubas Undead Memories of Brás Cubas]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_alienista The Alienist]] Mutant Hunter'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Casmurro Dom Casmurro]] and the Flying Saucers'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Escrava_Isaura_%28novel%29 Escrava Isaura]] and the Vampire'' and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senhora_%28novel%29 Senhora]], The Witch''.

* After authors such as Ann Radcliffe and [[Literature/TheMonk Matthew Lewis]] popularized GothicFiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, hundreds of lesser known Gothic novels and condensed re-writes of better known Gothic novels were published in an attempt to cash in. This largely died down by the 1820s, but the large number of forgotten novels published by Minerva press (which also published Radcliffe's classic, ''Literature/TheMysteriesOfUdolpho'') is a testament to the massive popularity of Gothic novels at the turn of the nineteenth century. Indeed, many of these "trade Gothic" works can be bought from [[http://www.zittaw.com/ Zittaw Press]], [[http://www.udolphopress.com/ Udolpho Press]], and [[http://valancourtbooks.com/index2.html Valancourt Books]]. Thus, this trope is OlderThanRadio.

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** The series caused a boom in the YA vampire genre. Notable examples include P.C. Cast's ''TheHouseOfNight'' series, Richelle Mead's ''Vampire Academy'' series, and Melissa de la Cruz's ''Blue Bloods'' series, each having [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a wildly different take on the vampire mythos.]] Not only that, but it caused a surge of YA ParanormalRomance in general, or at least "angsty teenage girl falls in love with the hot new boy at her school who turns out to have a supernatural secret" plots: ''Literature/HushHush'' (supernatural secret: angels), ''Fallen'' series (angels again), TheImmortalsSeries ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin immortals]])...

** The series caused a boom in the YA vampire genre. Notable examples include P.C. Cast's ''TheHouseOfNight'' series, Richelle Mead's ''Vampire Academy'' series, and Melissa de la Cruz's ''Blue Bloods'' series, each having [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a wildly different take on the vampire mythos.]] Not only that, but it caused a surge of YA ParanormalRomance in general, or at least "angsty teenage girl falls in love with the hot new boy at her school who turns out to have a supernatural secret" plots: ''HushHush'' (supernatural secret: angels), ''Fallen'' series (angels again), TheImmortalsSeries ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin immortals]])...

** And of course, there have been people claiming that ''Literature/HarryPotter'' itself ripped off something else, though what exactly it is varies between the detractor. They include: the infamous ''Literature/TheLegendOfRahAndTheMuggles'', ''[[Literature/EarthseaTrilogy A Wizard of Earthsea]]'', Creator/JaneYolen's ''Literature/WizardsHall'', ''Tom Brown's School Days'', ''GrooshamGrange'' and even the SoBadItsGood movie ''Film/{{Troll}}''. And loads more. The irony here is that Creator/JKRowling couldn't have ripped off all of them at once, and it often tends to imply that ''they'' were instead ripping off ''each other''. While a WizardingSchool was never a new trope, there's nothing older than ''Harry Potter'' to which it's ''exactly'' similar.

* The success of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has created a market for many new YoungAdult {{Dystopia}} novels with female leads and an emphasis on romance. To name a few: ''Legend'' by Marie Lu, ''Shatter Me'' by Tahereh Mafi, ''{{Matched}}'' by Ally Condie, ''Wither'' by Lauren [=DeStefano=], ''Enclave'' by Ann Aguirre, ''Under the Never Sky'' by Veronica Rossi, and ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' by Veronica Roth. Many of these also hold to ''Literature/TheHungerGames'''s structure: 16-year old ActionGirl protagonist, present-tense first-person narration, love interest (though a surprising lack of love triangles), and angst.