Book one

So one of my goals is to read 50 new books. I am very excited about this goal because even though I tend to read a lot it seems to be the same few books time and time again. But anyway, I am not counting my kindle books in this challenge because I feel like the kindle books are too short, for whatever reason. So I finished my first book a couple days ago, The Hunger Games. I liked it okay. I can understand where younger people would like it. I don't know, maybe I am just becoming old and grumpy because I was not fond of the love story attached to the book. It was too fake and the main character seems to be too oblivious to some things for my liking. But I am almost half way through the second one. Since I am also taking this week to not watch tv hopefully I will be done with the second book in the next day or so. Has anyone else read this book or series?