The Hunger Games
- Published
- 14 September 2008
- Pages
- 399
- ISBN-13
- 9780702342387
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hunger Games (2008) opens Suzanne Collins's trilogy: sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her little sister's place in Panem's televised fight-to-the-death, launching both a survival thriller and the slow-burn revolution that defines the series.
Key facts about The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins wrote The Hunger Games, a novel on our list. It has been out since 14 September 2008. The book has 399 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780702342387 to find the main one.
The Hunger Games is book 1 of 5 in The Hunger Games series. The series has 5 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. 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 Hunger Games is book 1 in the The Hunger Games series. It is followed by Catching Fire. 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 9780439023481
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439023528
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781338323641