Nah. I reread it with my 11yo and enjoyed it even more because of the company, and I’m 43. We finished The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes together and now just waiting for the film to watch it together.

Of all the YA dystopian action series out there, Hunger Games has got to be the best. I also read these books as an adult and enjoyed them thoroughly.

I read them in college and thought they were okay. They’re very easy reads, but are fun and have some solid twists and turns. The love triangle is overdone, but that’s the YA genre.

Red Rising might be up your alley too. The first book is sort of like a more interesting, more adult Hunger Games. The series gets quite a bit different after that, although they both sort of have the same premise of a class uprising inspired by one rebel figure.

I’m old enough to be your mother and I love these books. Katniss is a brilliant heroine

I read it as an adult, as did my sister and we both enjoyed it. It is a largely well executed, well paced, character driven story. I didn’t think much of the worldbuilding but I just kind of closed my eyes and concentrated on the characters.

The secret to good YA books is that general audiences will also enjoy the stories.

I didn’t read them until I was 27 or 28 and I thought they were great! They’re definitely not my go to genre but the stories were engaging enough and I liked the characters. If someone judges you for reading and liking them, then that’s a them problem!

To preface, I am not someone who seeks out YA literature. I have found it’s mostly just not for me (no judgment upon other adults who love it, truly!).

BUT! I picked up The Hunger Games in my late 20s and absolutely burned through them. It’s some of the most profoundly radical and politically important young adult literature I’ve ever read. You will love it. A must.

Don’t directly engage. Just go on a 30-minute rant about the whole series and all of her actions/ decisions makes so much more sense if it’s through the eyes of a young woman on the autism spectrum.

They won’t bring it up again.

Read whatever you’re comfortable with.

I still have boxes of YA fiction I read as a teen. Honestly, I don’t reread them. They are better as fond memories.

There’s no harm in giving it a shot. If you don’t enjoy it, then just ask a kid what they thought of it.

In my 30s and I fully enjoy the books

I read it in my fifties and enjoyed it. Afterwards I read some of the other popular YA novels of the time, thinking they must be good as well, but found most of them frankly pretty tedious. But Hunger Games was a decent read.

I think it’s still worth reading, that series in particular is very well done in that it can be enjoyed by a large age range. I was a teen when it first came out and read it with my dad who also enjoyed it.

Some of the writing and plot may be more simplistic/young than a book targeted towards a more adult/mature audience but that’s not a bad thing imo

I have a mate who read it at 25 and thoroughly enjoyed it!

it’s been labeled one of the best books of our time. it revolves around teen characters, but really, anyone can read it and enjoy it. the only reason it’s being assigned in fourth grade is because it’s basically become that much of a cult-classic. i highly recommend 😌