Before I started the Hunger Games, I had finished reading The Bridge at Andau, by James Michener, a book about the revolution against communism that occured in Hungary in the 1950s. The people were greatly oppressed by the Soviets, and the brutality and oppression were shocking.
There is a book that I intend to check out from the local library. It is called The Girl Who Was on Fire, and is a collection of essays from other authors' perspectives on the social and political aspects of the Hunger Games series. Not sure when I'll get to it, I recently put together a list of books that would likely be much more educational.
I found out that the National Academies Press has many reads available for free download. http://www.nap.edu/While most of the free download books aren't the most interesting, the site did help me piece together this list of books that I hope to get too eventually (the first one on the list is available to view for free online). Have any of you read any of these books?
- A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
- Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion through the Astonishing World of Math
- Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities
- Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
- The Secret Life of Numbers: 50 East Pieces on How Mathematicians Work and Think
- The Matchbox that Ate a Forty-ton Truck: What Everyday Things Tell Us about the Universe
- Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy
- The Man Who Stopped Time: The Illuminating Story of Edward Muybridge - Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer
- Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
- Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
