Scholastic has announced that Sunrise on the Reaping, the new novel in the bestselling Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, sold more than 1.5 million English copies in its first week on sale globally.
Sunrise on the Reaping revisits 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.
This is the first new Hunger Games book since The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020), with a feature film adaptation coming out in 2026.
“After nearly a year of anticipation, sales for Sunrise on the Reaping have exceeded all expectations, as has the overwhelmingly positive critical and fan response to the book across the world,” said Ellie Berger, EVP, President, Scholastic Trade.
On returning to the world of The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins was inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the few govern the many.’
“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.”
With more than 1.2 million copies sold in the US alone, Sunrise on the Reaping sold twice as many copies in its first week on sale domestically as The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in 2020 and three times as many copies as Mockingjay in 2010.
