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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)

This has been a long time coming…

Forward:

My story with The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins began last spring.  I had put hours into developing a book club for friends of mine.  I raked through numerous accredited “Top” lists of the most important novels of the past century.  From there I culled the cumulative list down to no more than one novel by each author, novels that were no more than 300 pages (so as not to scare casual readers away), at the same time making sure that there was novel representation from each decade and most genres.  I ended up with 51 titles.

Books were chosen by the members, given a vote of three novels pulled from the list at random.  This [sort of] worked for the club’s first two novels. When I saw membership/interest starting to dwindle, I opened the floor for member recommendations Continue reading →

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