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The Hunger Games would have been eligible in 2009 when there were two YA books on the ballot and one of them won (The Graveyard Book won, Little Brother was on the shortlist.) I feel that the Hugo is the one award where a gripping story of mixed literary merit could do well, since it is a popular vote. I don't know if the award was too soon for the book to have made an impact or if people just didn't really rate it. It doesn't look an especially strong shortlist that year, to my biases, but I did like the winner.
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