Chances are you, like most of the book world, have already read The Hunger Games – but months after the hype first started, it's still great. (And anyway, you really should reread it before the March 2012 film release.) Collins' first book in her phenomenally popular trilogy introduces Katniss Everdeen, a teenage girl living in a futuristic North America where the repressive government makes two teenagers from each district compete in a deadly game that's broadcast to the entire nation. Katniss keeps her family alive by hunting illegally with her friend Gale, but finds her world turned upside down when she and a boy named Peeta are chosen to compete in the Hunger Games.
