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The Hunger Games

Young adult book series by Suzanne Collins

This article is about the book series. For its first installment, see The Hunger Games (novel). For other uses, see The Hunger Games (disambiguation).

The Hunger Games are a series of young adultdystopian novels written by American author Suzanne Collins. The series consists of a trilogy that follows teenage protagonist Katniss Everdeen, and two prequels. The Hunger Games universe is a dystopia set in Panem, a North American country consisting of the wealthy Capitol and 13 districts in varying states of poverty.

Every year, two children, one boy and one girl, from the first 12 districts are selected via lottery to participate in a compulsory televised subjugation, disguised as a battle royale death match called "The Hunger Games", a spectacle of brutality and survival orchestrated by the powerful to maintain their grip on the weak. The minimum age requirement for participation in the Hunger Games is 12, and the number of tickets put into the lottery increases by one every year. However, for every one ticket put into the lottery, that person would get one set of rations. Aided by nuclear weaponry, the last district instead successfully rebelled against the Capitol and moved underground following a secret peace treaty.

The novels in the trilogy are titled The Hunger Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009), and Mockingjay (2010). Each was adapted into a film, forming The Hunger Games film series, with Mockingjay split into two feature-length motion pictures. The first two books were both New York Times best sellers, and Mockingjay topped all US bestseller lists upon its release. By the time the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in 2012, over 26 million copies of the trilogy were in print, including movie tie-in books. As of 2023, the series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide and continues to be a significan

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Summary

  • The Hunger Games franchise includes a long and detailed history of Panem, focusing largely on the war that inspired the Games.
  • The new prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, takes audiences back to the early days of the Hunger Games and reveals more about the world of Panem.
  • The prequel provides important historical context, explaining more about the founding of the Games and showing how civilization reached the point of the rebellion.

After eight years, the Hunger Gamesfranchise returns with The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which takes the audience further back in this dystopian world than ever before. Introduced in The Hunger Games through the eyes of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), the world is limited to the Capitol and Districts of Panem, but despite the country's seeming seclusion, there is plenty of history. The original series references the past war that established the dreaded Games, but much of the history is known. Even more recent events, like the life of the infamous villain President Snow (Donald Sutherland), are mysterious, but as The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes reveals more about the world, that is no longer the case. As in any dystopian society, history is important because it shows how civilization got to this point.

From the war that inspired the Hunger Games to the rebellion that ended it, there are seventy-six years. While Katniss' story takes place at the end of this timeframe, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set much earlier, during the 10th Hunger Games. As such, the new film will fill in the early days of the Hunger Games and how they came to be the event seen years later. Since it features a young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), several familiar characters are alive during the prequel. The new film will fit with the history the series established and build on it, including more historical context tha

Suzanne Collins

1962-present

Latest News: Suzanne Collins Writing New Hunger Games Book

Author Suzanne Collins is expanding The Hunger Games universe.

Publisher Scholastic announced Thursday that Collins’ fifth book in the popular dystopian series, Sunrise on the Reaping, will be available on March 18, 2025. In addition, Lionsgate will produce a film adaptation of the new novel to reach movie theaters on November 20, 2026.

The new title is set 40 years after the events of the most recent book in the series, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and focuses on themes of misinformation and government influence. “I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the many are governed by the few,’” Collins said in a statement. “The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more pressing to me every day.”

Who Is Suzanne Collins?

Suzanne Collins is an American author who published her debut book, Gregor the Overlander, the first of the five-part The Underland Chronicles, in 2003. Five years later, in 2008, her first book of The Hunger Games series was published. The best-selling trilogy was adapted into a blockbuster film series starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and later expanded to include a prequel book and film, The Ballad of Songbirds of Snakes, and a newly announced fifth novel in 2025.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Suzanne Collins
BORN: August 10, 1962
BIRTHPLACE: Hartford, Connecticut
HUSBAND: Charles Pryor (m. 1992)
CHILDREN: Charlie and Isabel
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Leo

Early Life

The youngest of four children, Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut. The daughter of an Air Force officer, Michael J. Collins, and his wife Jane, Suzanne moved considerably during her childhood, living in places like New York City and Brussels.

For the

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    • The Hunger Games (franchise)

    American media franchise

    This article is about the franchise. For the novel series, see The Hunger Games. For the first novel, see The Hunger Games (novel).

    The Hunger Games is an American media franchise centering on a series of science fictiondystopianadventure films, based on the novel series of the same name by Suzanne Collins. The films are distributed by Lionsgate. The series feature an ensemble cast including Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy, Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, and Donald Sutherland as President Snow. In the prequel film, Tom Blyth stars as Coriolanus Snow, Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird, Josh Andrés Rivera as Sejanus Plinth, Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow, Peter Dinklage as Casca Highbottom, Viola Davis as Dr. Volumnia Gaul and Jason Schwartzman as Lucretius "Lucky" Flickerman.

    The first three films set various box office records. The Hunger Games (2012) set records for biggest opening day and biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel. Catching Fire (2013) set the record for biggest opening weekend of November. Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) had the largest opening day and weekend of 2014. The films, including Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015), were praised for their themes and Lawrence's performance. The prequel film The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), received mixed reviews and had the lowest opening weekend of the series. The series is the 20th-highest-grossing film franchise of all time, having grossed $3.3 billion worldwide.

    Background

    Following the release of Suzanne Collins's novel The Hunger Games, on September 14, 2008, Hollywood film studios began looking to adapt the book into film. In March 2009, Color Force, an independent studio founded by producer Nina Jacobson, bought the film rights to the book.:&#

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