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Sunrise on the Reaping
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 about 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.
A film adaptation was announced to be in production on June 6, 2024, and is set to be released by Lionsgate on November 20, 2026.
Collins' inspiration was a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, specifically his ideas of implicit submission and "the easiness with which the many are governed by the few". Questions surrounding the use of propaganda and the power of media narratives also inspired Collins to explore the concept of what is ‘Real or not real?’ in the novel.
Collins chose the title of Sunrise on the Reaping to express Hume's philosophy of the distinction between inductive and deductive reasoning. As conveyed through Haymitch and Lenore Dove's disagreement in the first chapter, Haymitch believed with certainty that the reaping will always be around and resigned himself to it, showing implicit submission, but Lenore Dove argued there can be a future without them as the Hunger Games have only been around for fifty years.
In the novel, Lenore Dove sings sections of "The Goose and the Common", an 18th-century poem about the injustices of land enclosure in England, in reference to the Capitol.
The cover art for Sunrise on the Reaping was designed by Tim O'Brien. Regarding the cover art, VP publisher and editorial director for Scholastic David Levithan stated that “The spiky sun rises on a symbol that will come to mean a lot to Haymitch Abernathy, as well as countless readers. Artist Tim O’Brien has created yet another iconic Hunger Games cover – this one symbolically exploring one of the central themes of the series: how conflicting forces can be connected by their common nature, the songbird and the snake springing from the same source.”
Haymitch Abernathy lives in Panem's District 12 with his impoverished, widowed mother and younger brother, Sid. Haymitch illegally distills moonshine (for Hattie Meeney) to support his family. He regularly sneaks into the woods to meet his girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird, a member of the Covey, a nomadic musical group forced to settle in District 12.
The 50th Annual Hunger Games reaping is held on Haymitch's sixteenth birthday. To celebrate the Second Quarter Quell, all districts must provide twice as many tributes. At the District 12 reaping, a male tribute attempts to escape but is killed. In the ensuing chaos, Haymitch protects Lenore Dove from the Peacekeepers. District 12's cruel tribute escort Drusilla Sickle and Plutarch Heavensbee, a cameraman who appears sympathetic to the tributes, then appoint Haymitch as the substitute tribute, re‐staging the reaping. His fellow District 12 tributes include betting oddsmaker Wyatt Callow, neighbor and close friend Louella McCoy, and the rich and callous Maysilee Donner.
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Sunrise on the Reaping
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 about 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.
A film adaptation was announced to be in production on June 6, 2024, and is set to be released by Lionsgate on November 20, 2026.
Collins' inspiration was a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, specifically his ideas of implicit submission and "the easiness with which the many are governed by the few". Questions surrounding the use of propaganda and the power of media narratives also inspired Collins to explore the concept of what is ‘Real or not real?’ in the novel.
Collins chose the title of Sunrise on the Reaping to express Hume's philosophy of the distinction between inductive and deductive reasoning. As conveyed through Haymitch and Lenore Dove's disagreement in the first chapter, Haymitch believed with certainty that the reaping will always be around and resigned himself to it, showing implicit submission, but Lenore Dove argued there can be a future without them as the Hunger Games have only been around for fifty years.
In the novel, Lenore Dove sings sections of "The Goose and the Common", an 18th-century poem about the injustices of land enclosure in England, in reference to the Capitol.
The cover art for Sunrise on the Reaping was designed by Tim O'Brien. Regarding the cover art, VP publisher and editorial director for Scholastic David Levithan stated that “The spiky sun rises on a symbol that will come to mean a lot to Haymitch Abernathy, as well as countless readers. Artist Tim O’Brien has created yet another iconic Hunger Games cover – this one symbolically exploring one of the central themes of the series: how conflicting forces can be connected by their common nature, the songbird and the snake springing from the same source.”
Haymitch Abernathy lives in Panem's District 12 with his impoverished, widowed mother and younger brother, Sid. Haymitch illegally distills moonshine (for Hattie Meeney) to support his family. He regularly sneaks into the woods to meet his girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird, a member of the Covey, a nomadic musical group forced to settle in District 12.
The 50th Annual Hunger Games reaping is held on Haymitch's sixteenth birthday. To celebrate the Second Quarter Quell, all districts must provide twice as many tributes. At the District 12 reaping, a male tribute attempts to escape but is killed. In the ensuing chaos, Haymitch protects Lenore Dove from the Peacekeepers. District 12's cruel tribute escort Drusilla Sickle and Plutarch Heavensbee, a cameraman who appears sympathetic to the tributes, then appoint Haymitch as the substitute tribute, re‐staging the reaping. His fellow District 12 tributes include betting oddsmaker Wyatt Callow, neighbor and close friend Louella McCoy, and the rich and callous Maysilee Donner.