Hunger Games

This is a young adult novel by Suzanne Collins, and evidently the start of a series.

Like Child-44 (previous post) I found Hunger Games on a Barnes and Noble list, this one for the best young adult novels of 2008.

In a literary sense, this book is of a higher caliber than the typical Harry Potter or Twilight-type young adult novel, and in an entertainment sense, it is just as gripping, if not even more so. The main character is extremely well developed, but if there are any drawbacks to this novel, it is the lack of information about secondary characters. Generally, all the reader gets to know is what the main character thinks about everything else.

Anyway, go read this book. It doesn't take long, and after everyone is finished with Twilight, this is likely going to be the series they are talking about.