The Hunger Games is actually considered Dystopian fiction. It is also Science Fiction because it takes place in the future, they have more technology, and it is still the future of OUR universe, just with a different name. So out of the three I'd have to go with Science fiction.
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The Hunger Games at the most base level are a blood sport organized for the entertainment of the masses and to glorify the winner.
The fact in the book they use young people and it is on Television is just part of the book.
The Roman Empire had the Games in the Colosseum, blood sport where gladiators fight t the death.
The Aztecs had games where individual regions provided athletes and the looses died in the game or were sacrificed to the gods.
So YES the basis of the Novels has happened in the past.
I DOUBT it could happen again.
Yes, The Hunger Games is a dystopian fantasy trilogy for Young Adults.
Well, there's no place called Panem, no capital called the Capitol and no event in which 24 young children are taken from their parents, shoved into an arena and made to battle to their deaths.
The Food games The death games the fighting games Or the appetite games
The hunger games
1. The Hunger Games 2. Catching Fire 3. Mockingjay