With beautiful artwork by Freya Betts, this paperback edition features gorgeous sprayed edges with stencilled artwork. This is a breathtaking collectible perfect for the long-time fan or new Hunger Games reader.

The first book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games trilogy.

There is only one rule: kill or be killed.

Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games.

When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.

• All four Hunger Games books have been made into feature films, the first three starring Jennifer Lawence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks and Donald Sutherland.
• The fourth movie of  The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, released November 2023 and has an all-star cast including Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Viola Davis and Peter Dinklage.