The Hunger Games · Book 5
Sunrise on the Reaping
- Published
- 18 March 2025
- ISBN-13
- 9780702349072
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sunrise on the Reaping (2025) is the second prequel, following a teenage Haymitch Abernathy through the notorious 50th Games -- together with Ballad, extending Panem's history nearly seventy years before Katniss's own story.
Its place in The Hunger Games
Sunrise on the Reaping is book 5 in the The Hunger Games series. It follows The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. 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 9780702349072