The Hunger Games
About this book
The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death.
The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. It was praised for its plot and character development. In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008.
The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien.
The Hunger Games · 4 books
In publication order- 1 The Hunger Games 2008 This book
- 2 Catching Fire 2009
- 3 Mockingjay 2010
- 5 Sunrise on the Reaping 2025
Subjects
- action & adventure
- amerikanisches englisch
- apocalyptic fiction
- blind
- books and reading
- bravery.
- children's fiction
- contensts
- contests
- contests, fiction
- dystopian fiction
- dystopias
- effects of war
- fiction
- future
- game shows
- interpersonal relations
- interpersonal relations, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile works
- large type books
- life risking
- long now manual for civilization
- new york times bestseller
- novels
- nyt:series_books=2010-08-21
- oppression
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- reality television programs
- roman
- science fiction
- self-sacrifice
- severe poverty
- sisters
- starvation
- survival
- survival, fiction
- survival skills
- survival stories
- television, fiction
- television game shows
- television programs
- violent
- young adult fiction
- young adult works
- young women