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Why the best new fiction for adults is written for teens BY
TRACE Y NEITHERCO TT
PHO TOGRAPH B Y
JESSE RIESER
Hungry for a deep, dark,
addictively absorbing
novel? Read
The Hunger
Games
by Suzanne Collins.
The gripping story—a
postapocalyptic tale about
a teenage girl who fights to
survive lethal games tele-
vised for sport—has spent
more than three years on
The New York Times
best-
seller list, and the movie
adaptation opens March 23.
The catch: It’s teen lit.
But don’t worry—the
genre isn’t just for the
young. “The boundary of
these books being read only
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