The Hunger Games · Book 1
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.
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