Catching Fire
#1 USA Today Bestseller
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
#1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009
“Whereas Katniss kills with finesse, Collins writes with raw power."
-Time Magazine
“Collins has joined J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer as a writer of children's books that adults are eager to read.”
-Bloomberg.com
“Catching Fire not only lived up to my high expectations, it surpassed them. It's just as exciting as The Hunger Games, but even more gut wrenching, because you already know these characters, you've already suffered with them.”
-Stephenie Meyer, www.stepheniemeyer.com
The Hunger Games
#1 New York Times Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
A Horn Book Fanfare
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2008
A Booklist Editors’ Choice
A New York Times Notable Book of 2008
A Kirkus Best Book of 2008
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“I couldn't stop reading."
-Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
“The Hunger Games is amazing.”
-Stephenie Meyer, www.stepheniemeyer.com
“[The Hunger Games] is a great book, and very thought-provoking. Read this along with your teen and discuss it.”
-Charlaine Harris, www.charlaineharris.com
Press Releases
Scholastic Publishes Catching Fire
Scholastic Publishes The Hunger Games
LionsGate Acquires Worldwide Distribution Rights for The Hunger Games Film
Highlights
- USA Today announces Catching Fire's debut at #1 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list its first week on sale. Catching Fire simultaneously appeared at #1 on The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists.
- NPR's All Things Considered interviews Suzanne Collins about Catching Fire.
- USA Today interviews Suzanne Collins about Catching Fire.
- The Los Angeles Times interviews Suzanne Collins about Catching Fire.
- Time Magazine reviews The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.
- The Hunger Games has spent more than 60 consecutive weeks to date (through November 21, 2009) on The New York Times bestseller list since publication in September 2008, and has also appeared on the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists.
- There are more than 800,000 copies of The Hunger Games and more than 750,000 copies of Catching Fire in print in the U.S. and Canada.
- Publishers Weekly chronicles excitement among booksellers nationwide for the September 1st publication of Catching Fire.
- On June 26, 2009, Scholastic announced the winner of the Hunger Games Writing Contest. Learn more about the contest and read 17-year-old Kayley's winning entry here. For more information about the winner, see additional coverage of the contest in Publishers Weekly.
- Publishers Weekly reports that "Catching Fire Catches Fire" in an article on growing advance buzz for the publication of Catching Fire (September 1, 2009).
- Film rights for The Hunger Games have been optioned by Lionsgate, and Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company will produce, with Suzanne Collins set to write the screenplay.
- Foreign publishing rights for The Hunger Games have been sold into 37 territories to date.
- Publishers Weekly announces the new publication date for Catching Fire (September 1, 2009), a writing contest for teens, film news, and the latest information on foreign editions, including a selection of covers from around the globe.
- Stephen King reviews The Hunger Games in Entertainment Weekly.
- Publishers Weekly announces title and cover image for Catching Fire, the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy, to be published September 8, 2009.
- The Hunger Games is the first book in a futuristic trilogy for teen readers (ages 12 to adult) by aclaimed writer Suzanne Collins, author of The New York Times best-selling Underland Chronicles series.
- The Hunger Games delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.
- Video interview with Suzanne Collins about The Hunger Games.
- Critical praise for The Hunger Games.
Downloads
- Download the book cover for The Hunger Games
- Download the cover of The Hunger Games audiobook
- Download the book cover for Catching Fire
- Download the cover of the Catching Fire audiobook
- Suzanne Collins reads Chapter 11 of The Hunger Games
- Photo of Suzanne Collins (photo credit: Cap Pryor)
- Photo of Suzanne Collins - color (photo credit: Cap Pryor)
- Photo of Suzanne Collins - black & white (photo credit: Cap Pryor)
- Read the first chapter of The Hunger Games
- Author Q&A
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