The Hunger Games · Book 2
Catching Fire
- Published
- 1 September 2009
- Pages
- 1824
- ISBN-13
- 9781338686531
- Type
- novel
About this book
Catching Fire, published in 2009, is the second book in the trilogy, pushing Katniss further into her unwilling role as a symbol of resistance against the Capitol's Machiavellian President Snow.
Its place in The Hunger Games
Catching Fire is book 2 in the The Hunger Games series. It follows The Hunger Games. It is followed by Mockingjay. See the full The Hunger Games reading order.
In the ruins of North America, the totalitarian nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a boy and a girl to fight to the death on live television, punishment for a long-ago rebellion against the Capitol. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her little sister's place in the arena, and what follows is both a survival thriller and a slow-burn revolution: Katniss becomes an unwilling symbol of resistance, is forced into a love triangle staged as much for cameras as for her own…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439023498
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439023535
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781338321951