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March 27, 2025By Erin Somers

Hunger Games Prequel Sells 1.5 Million Copies In First Week

March 27, 2025By Erin Somers

Scholastic reports that SUNRISE ON THE REAPING, the new Hunger Games prequel by Suzanne Collins, sold 1.5 million English-language units across all formats in its first week, with US sales exceeding 1.2 million units. Circana Bookscan shows that this includes nearly 715,000 hardcovers in the US and Nielsen Bookscan tracked sales of just over 118,000 hardcovers in the UK. Scholastic writes in a release, “Sunrise on the Reaping has sold twice as many copies its first week on sale domestically as The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in 2020 and three times as many copies as Mockingjay in 2010.” Elie Berger, evp, […]

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