The Hunger Games #1: The Hunger Games (10th Anniversary Edition) Award-winning author by Suzanne Collins (author)

10th Anniversary Edition of The Hunger Games with exclusive content.Contains more than fifty pages of new bonus material, including the most extensive interview Suzanne Collins has given since the publication of The Hunger Games, which provides an absorbing behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the series; and an engaging archival conversation between Suzanne Collins and YA legend Walter Dean Myers on writing about war.

pre-order Sunrise On the Reaping – the fifth book in the Hunger Games series – coming March 2025

Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister’s place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature. “A violent, jarring, speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense. . . . I couldn’t stop reading.” Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly “I was so obsessed with this book. . . . The Hunger Games is amazing.” Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga “Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced.” John Green, The New York Times Book Review

Three books, four films and one worldwide phenomenon, The Hunger Games original trilogy changed the face of global YA.
All three of the Hunger Games original novels have been made into major feature films, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson & Liam Hemsworth
The best-selling prequel to The Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes , was a global number one feature film in autumn 2023 and a number one New York Times and The Times bestseller in hardback in May 2020.

OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES

Catching Fire
Mockingjay
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Sunrise On the Reaping – the fifth book in the Hunger Games series - coming in hardback, March 2025 and slated for a feature length film release in November 2026
The Hunger Games illustrated edition is releasing in October 2024

Product Details

Series

The Hunger Games (book 1)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407192086

Date published

October 30th, 2018

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.3; Middle years plus; 15.0 points

Other details

512 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

The Hunger Games

Author/Illustrator

Suzanne Collins

Bestselling author Suzanne Collins first made her mark in children’s literature with the New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles series for middle grade readers. Her debut for readers aged 12 and up, The Hunger Games immediately became a New York Times bestseller, appealing to both teen readers and adults. It was called “addictive” by Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly, and “amazing” by Stephenie Meyer on her website, and was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2008 and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.

Catching Fire, the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy, debuted at #1 on the USA Today bestseller list and simultaneously appeared at #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. It was named a Time Magazine Top Ten Fiction Book of 2009, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a People Magazine (Top 10)Best Book of 2009. Mockingjay, the thrilling final installment in trilogy, was published to worldwide acclaim in 2010.

Foreign rights for The Hunger Games and its sequels have been sold in over 39 countries to date. In April 2010, Suzanne Collins was named to the TIME 100 list of “the world’s most influential people.” Lionsgate will release The Hunger Games movie in March 2012, with Oscar-nominated Jennifer Lawrence starring as Katniss.

Suzanne has also had a successful and prolific career writing for children’s television. She has worked on the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy-nominated hit Clarissa Explains It All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. She received a Writers Guild of America nomination in animation for co-writing the critically acclaimed Santa, Baby!

Suzanne Collins lives with her family in Connecticut.