Scholastic swoops for new Hunger Games book

Scholastic has acquired world English rights to a new novel in the worldwide bestselling The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, to be published 18th March 2025. 

Sunrise on the Reaping, the fifth book in the series, will revisit the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games (Scholastic), starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell. Sunrise on the Reaping, the first new Hunger Games book since the worldwide bestseller The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), will be published simultaneously in print, digital and audio formats by Scholastic in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The deal was negotiated by Rosemary Stimola of the Stimola Literary Studio for Suzanne Collins and David Levithan, publisher and editorial director for Scholastic. Further to this, Lionsgate has announced a film based on the book for release in November 2026. 

“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,” said Ellie Berger, president of Scholastic Trade. “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.”

On returning to the world of The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins 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."