The fifth book in the bestselling series will be released on March 18, 2025
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, a press release obtained by PEOPLE confirmed.
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.
