#1 in Dystopian
Sunrise on the Reaping
- 564
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
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Our view
A prequel whose outcome is known in advance, and which hurts anyway: Collins makes the 50th Hunger Games and Haymitch Abernathy’s part in them matter page by page, and her treatment of propaganda gives the cruelty a purpose. Some will find it adds little that the earlier books had not already said, in plainer prose than theirs. Read it after the original trilogy, and expect to be moved rather than surprised.
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About the book
Sunrise on the Reaping is a 2025 dystopian novel written by American author Suzanne Collins and the second prequel novel to the original The Hunger Games trilogy, following The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020). Set 24 years before the events of the first novel, the narrative delves into themes of political manipulation, the power of propaganda, and the complexities of societal control under a totalitarian regime and centers on the 50th Hunger Games, in which Haymitch Abernathy competed. It was released on March 18, 2025, and published by Scholastic.
Reading order · The Hunger Games
Full order & progress →- The Hunger GamesStart here
8.38.3 / 10 - Catching Fire
8.28.2 / 10 - Mockingjay
7.77.7 / 10 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
7.67.6 / 10 - Sunrise on the ReapingThis book
8.68.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.7 across 1,498 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 91% of the weight and the score stays at 8.6 — the Dystopian average of 7.7 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.7 | 1.5K | 100% |
Frequently asked
What age is Sunrise on the Reaping for?
Sunrise on the Reaping sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 564 pages — longer than 93% of the ranked books in Dystopian.
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