The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- Published
- 19 May 2020
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN-13
- 9781339016573
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, arriving a decade after Mockingjay in 2020, is the first of two prequels, pulling the lens back onto a young, still-sympathetic Coriolanus Snow during the 10th Hunger Games.
Key facts about The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a novel by Suzanne Collins. Readers have had it since 19 May 2020. It runs to 528 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781339016573 to find the main one.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is book 4 of 5 in The Hunger Games series. The series has 5 published books. However, the series starts with The Hunger Games (2008). Sunrise on the Reaping is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 18 March 2025.
Additionally, Suzanne Collins writes The Underland Chronicles as a separate series. Those series sit on our middle grade fantasy and dystopian shelves. Meanwhile, Sunrise on the Reaping is the latest published Suzanne Collins book on file, from 18 March 2025.
About Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins is an American author best known for The Hunger Games trilogy, beginning with The Hunger Games in 2008, which follows Katniss Everdeen's forced participation in a televised fight-to-the-death staged by an authoritarian government, and which became one of the defining young adult franchises of the twenty-first century, credited with helping drive the dystopian-YA boom that followed it. See every Suzanne Collins book in order.
Its place in The Hunger Games
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is book 4 in the The Hunger Games series. It follows Mockingjay. It is followed by Sunrise on the Reaping. 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 9781338674453
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780702300172
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780702309519