The Hunger Games

In the ruins of North America, the Capitol forces each district to send two teenagers into a televised fight to the death. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to spare her sister, she becomes both a competitor and, unwittingly, a spark of rebellion. Suzanne Collins’s propulsive dystopia launched a phenomenon. Taylor Swift devoured the series and wrote “Safe & Sound” and “Eyes Open” for the films, saying she was so sad when the books ended that she wanted to read them again.