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Target Unveils Exclusive Edition of ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ for ‘Hunger Games’ Fans
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“Hunger Games” fans won’t have to wait much longer for the next installment in the fantasy series to arrive: Amazon and Target have opened up pre-orders for “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth book in the blockbuster young adult franchise. Officially due out March 18, 2025, fans can pick up the book on sale now for just $22 — 20% off its list price.
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Though there are a few months left before the Suzanne Collins book hits stands, “Sunrise” has already landed in the Top Five of Amazon’s bestselling young adult books chart. Target, meantime, has an exclusive version of the book that won’t be available anywhere else.
PRE-ORDER AT TARGET
Sunrise on the Reaping – Target Exclusive Edition
$22.39
Target has the new Hunger Games book available to order now for $22 online. Target has an exclusive edition that contains “bonus content,” though it’s not clear as of this writing what exactly the bonus content will consist of. Previous special editions at Target have contained everything from exclusive artwork to a new cover to additional pages.
PRE-ORDER ON AMAZON
Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
$22.39 $27.99 20% off
You can also find the book available to order on Amazon, which has “Sunrise” available on hardcover, Kindle and as an audiobook. Amazon’s pre-order guarantee ensures that you will only be charged for whatever the lowest price is, between the date you pre-order the book online and the date it ships.
Publisher Scholastic Press has provided both Amazon and Target with a mock cover of the new book for now, with the official cover reveal expected in the coming months. The book is set to contain 400 pages.
Taking place 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, “Sunrise on the Reaping” follows a new group of characters as they prepare for the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games (also known as the “Second Quarter Quell”). Of course, readers of the other books will know that — spoiler — Haymitch Abernathy won the Games, leading to a string of retribution from President Snow.
This is the second prequel to the original Hunger Games book trilogy, following “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” which was released in 2020. “Sunrise” taks place 40 years after the events of that novel.
“With ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the many are governed by the few,’” author Suzanne Collins told the AP. “The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more pressing to me every day.”
Who will be tribute? Who will live and die? Return to Panem with “Sunrise on the Reaping,” available to pre-order now. The book follows “The Hunger Games,” “Catching Fire,” “Mockingjay” and “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” Those novels are available right now as part of a four-book paperback box set, on sale at Amazon and Target.
FOUR-BOOK SET
Hunger Games 4-Book Box Set
$32.11 $61.96 48% off
$32.11 $61.96 48% off
As with the other titles in the series, “Sunrise on the Reaping” is also headed to the big screen, with a movie version of the novel set to be released by Lionsgate Films on November 20, 2026.
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