The Hunger Games by Susann Collins is one of my all time favorite  books.  If I had to pick a genre from it I would say realistic fiction. It could happen in the future but not in the present day.

In the book the setting is the future in a place called Pannam.  In this sick world the capitol rules over the districts.  Each district has its own significance (ex: District 6 fishing).  The districts are treated poorly so district 13 rebels against the capitol, but it dose not go their way and district 13 is destroied.  So from then on to remember never to rebel against the capitol, their is the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are when the capital randomly selects 2 tributes (boy & girl) from each district and puts them in an arena to kill each other.

The main character is Katniss Everdeen a 16 year old girl who has become fierce due to illegally hunting for food. She ends up in the hunger games.

The author of the  The Hunger Games Susan Collins) has a great writing style.  She really describes everything so well that you feel like you are in the book, for example, Katniss & her friend are talking about how they hate the hunger games.  The author does such a good job describing that scene you feel like you are there.  I loved this book and would recommend it to people 9 and up because it is a really deep subject,has romance and violence.