Trailer Tuesday: The Hunger Games
The author describes it as ‘Gladiator meets Project Runway’: the dystopian reality-TV spectacle that is the premise of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, along with its sequel Catching Fire. Book Three, The Victors, is due to be published towards the end of 2010.
Australian and UK cover. Copyright rests with the publisher, Scholastic
The author
- Suzanne Collins’s website
- Biography (Scholastic USA)
The text
- The Hunger Games website
- Chapter 1 (PDF)
- Audio extract (mp3)
- Suzanne Collins reads Chapter 11 (mp3)
- Reading group guide
- Mitali Perkins – video discussion starter: Race in The Hunger Games
Reviews
Articles and Interviews
- Author Q & A from Scholastic
- Interview from Teenreads
- Borders Book Club, Part 1 (video)
- Borders Book Club, Part 2 (video)
- Borders Book Club, Part 3 (video)
- Borders Book Club, Part 4 (video)
- Borders Book Club, Part 5 (video)
- Wikipedia article (anything missing? can it be improved?)
Awards
- New York Times Bestseller List (Children’s Books)
- A Horn Book Fanfare 2008 (Fiction)
- A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008 (Children’s Fiction)
- A School Library Journal Best Book of 2008 (Fiction)
- A Booklist Editors’ Choice 2008 (Books for Youth)
- A New York Times Notable Book of 2008 (Children’s Books)
- A Kirkus Review Best Book of 2008
- A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice 2008
- And while many readers consider it Best. Book. Ever, does it meet Newbery Medal criteria? Discussion on the Mock Newbery blog.
- Added 7 November 2009: More from the Mock Newbery blog 5 November) , this time in praise of The Hunger Games
Dystopian fiction
- Utopian and dystopian fiction (Wikipedia)
- Dystopia and Science Fiction : Blade Runner, Brazil and Beyond (or, Who’s Dystopia Is It?) (or, Dystopia is in the Eyes of the (frightened) Beholder). Notes from the Digital Cultures Project (University of California, Santa Barbara) with a definition, comments on the cultural and political sources of dystopian fiction and what we can learn from reading it.
- Dystopias in contemporary literature (eNotes)
The film
- IMDB – in development for proposed 2011 release
- Lionsgate gets Hunger Games (FusedFilm blog)
Read more dystopian fiction: a list from the CMIS database.
