Katniss Everdeen and Squid Game fans: The Long Walk by Stephen King

The link points to the Libby app.

Read Stephen King’s first novel using your library card and the Libby app. Also a 2025 movie.

“Set in an alternative, dystopian version of the United States following an unspecified war, the plot revolves around the Long Walk, an annual contest in which 100 young men walk continuously along a pre-arranged route. Walkers must keep a minimum pace of 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h) and are issued verbal warnings by soldiers monitoring their progress if they fall below this speed for 30 seconds. A walker can lose one warning if he walks for an hour without earning another. If a walker receives three warnings and falls below the minimum speed for 30 seconds again, he is shot and killed by the soldiers. There are no breaks or rest periods of any sort, although the walkers do receive food and water, and the Walk does not have a set distance or time limit; it ends only when one walker remains alive, receiving whatever he wants for the rest of his life as his prize.”