Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence

when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger

Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close

to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. The Hunger

Games is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels

to our present. Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show

ever...