Author Suzanne Collins announces fifth Hunger Games book

Sunrise on the Reaping, to be published on 18 March 2025, set 24 years before original Hunger Games novel

Inspired by an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new Hunger Games novel.

Scholastic announced on Thursday that Sunrise on the Reaping, the fifth volume of Collins’s blockbuster dystopian series, will be published on 18 March 2025. The new book begins with the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, set 24 years before the original Hunger Games novel, which came out in 2008, and 40 years after Collins’s most recent book, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which was published in 2020.