The Hunger Games

I read about this book awhile ago and kind of forgot about it. It keeps popping up in things though and so I think thats a sign that its a must read.

There is a sample chapter on Barnes and Nobles website and it looks really good from what I can tell.
It also is a series of books, this is the first one and the second one is called Catching Fire.


Synopsis
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival.