A new Hunger Games book is on the way! Suzanne Collins’ fifth book in the bestselling series, titled Sunrise on the Reaping, will be published by Scholastic on March 18, 2025

The upcoming novel “will revisit the world of Panem twenty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell,” per a synopsis in the release.

Sunrise on the Reaping marks the first new Hunger Games book since the worldwide No. 1 bestseller The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was released in 2020.
“Suzanne Collins has done it again, bringing us back to the world of Panem in order to ask us important questions about our own world,” Ellie Berger, President of Scholastic Trade, said of the eagerly-anticipated release.

“Sunrise on the Reaping is a remarkable book, bringing new complexity, perspective, and revelations to a piece of the Hunger Games story that readers have longed to know more about,” Berger added.

While speaking about returning to the Hunger Games world, Collins, 61, said, “With Sunrise on the Reaping, I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.’ ”

“The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more pressing to me every day,” the author added.

Sunrise on the Reaping will be published simultaneously in print, digital, and audio formats by Scholastic in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the release confirmed.

More than 100 million copies (in print and digital formats) have been sold worldwide of the four Hunger Games books released so far, with foreign publishing rights being sold in 54 languages.

The Hunger Games was released in 2008, followed by 2009’s Catching Fire, 2010’s Mockingjay and 2020’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

All four books have been made into movies over the years, with Jennifer Lawrence starring as Katniss Everdeen in 2012’s The Hunger Games, 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and 2, released in 2014 and 2015.
The 2023 film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes featured a new cast — including Rachel Zegler, Viola Davis, and Tom Blyth — and was set 64 years before the events of the first novel.

Hunger Games fans might notice that the 50th Games, which the new novel will focus on, were the year that Haymitch Abernathy — Katniss’ mentor, played by Woody Harrelson in the original films — was named victor.

And it appears Zegler, 23, is especially excited for Sunrise on the Reaping, as she re-shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) that she made in 2021 that read, “Girls don’t want boys. girls want suzanne collins to release a haymitch abernathy origin trilogy,”

“You’re welcome guys,” the actress wrote alongside her re-post on Thursday, June 6.