It debuted at #1 on the USA Today bestseller list its first week on sale and simultaneously appeared at #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. The Hunger Games was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2008, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008, a School Library Journal Best Book of 2008, a 2008 Booklist Editors’ Choice, a Kirkus Best Book of 2008, and a 2008 Horn Book Fanfare Book.Ĭatching Fire, the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy, was published September 1, 2009. Called “addictive” by Stephen King in a review in Entertainment Weekly and “amazing” by Stephenie Meyer on her website, The Hunger Games has captured the imagination of critics and readers alike. Published in September 2008, The Hunger Games was an instant bestseller, appealing to both teen readers and adults.
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The Hunger Games is a futuristic trilogy for ages 12 to adult by Suzanne Collins, author of the bestselling Underland Chronicles series for middle-grade readers. “We join Collins’s many fans in counting down to the publication of Mockingjay.” “Excitement for The Hunger Games trilogy continues to grow each day as new readers discover Suzanne Collins’s indelible heroine Katniss Everdeen,” said Ellie Berger, President of the Scholastic Trade Publishing division. The tour will conclude in November 2010 with visits to bookstores in Northern California, Seattle, and Vancouver. In September 2010, she will continue the tour in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC, and in October she will travel to Chicago, and Minneapolis/St. Beginning on the Augpublication date for Mockingjay, Collins will tour bookstores in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Boston, her first bookstore tour since September 2008. Scholastic also announced today that the New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins, who was named among the 2010 TIME 100 Most Influential People, will embark this fall on a twelve-market North American tour to promote the release of Mockingjay.
The trade paperback edition of The Hunger Games, is scheduled for U.S./Canadian publication on July 3, 2010, with a first printing of 500,000 copies. and Canada on Aug(Augin the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand). Mockingjay, which is embargoed, will be published in the U.S. and Canada to date (more than 1.4 million copies of The Hunger Games since September 2008 and more than 900,000 copies of its sequel Catching Fire in less than one year since its September 2009 publication). It has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 93 consecutive weeks since publication, and there are more than 2.3 million copies of the first two books in the trilogy in print in the U.S.
First published in September 2008, The Hunger Games was an instant bestseller, appealing to both teen readers and adults. New York, NY (July 1, 2010) - Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, announced today that it has increased the first printing of Mockingjay, the final book in the nationally bestselling The Hunger Games trilogy, to 1.2 million, from a previously announced 750,000 copies. Author to Embark on 12-Market National Tour This Fall
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