The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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 once 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 regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.

Trigger Warnings

• Ableism & ableist language
• Alcohol consumption and alcohol abuse
• Alcoholism
• Animal death (graphic & repeated), hunting, and animal illness mentioned
• Animal dead bodies and graphic description of skinning & butchering
• Animal attack and death from animal attack (including death from a wasp attack and a graphic scene of a child being eaten alive by a wolf)
• Attempted murder of a pet cat recounted
• Attempted suicide and self-sacrifice ideation
• Avalanche mentioned
• Blood and gore depiction (graphic)
• Cannibalism recounted & discussed
• Classism
• Dead bodies (graphic, multiple)
• Death from exposure mentioned
• Death of a child (op, multiple)
• Death of a father recounted
• Death of a friend (op)
• Death of a husband recounted
• Drugging w/o consent
• Emesis (graphic, multiple op scenes)
• Explosions (op & recounted)
• Fire
• Graphic physical injuries (including burns & loss of hearing) and illness
• Grief depiction
• Hallucinations
• Hostage situation
• Knife violence and stabbing
• Non-consensual medical treatment and procedures (including amputation)
• Murder and attempted murder
• Needles
• Poisoning
• Police brutality mentioned
• Poverty themes
• Rebellion themes
• Scars discussed
• Serious illness of a loved one
• Starvation & dehydration depiction (central theme) and death from starvation & dehydration mentioned
• Strangulation
• Whipping mentioned

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