After its first week on sale, the latest novel in the blockbuster Hunger Games series is already on its way to the top of the yearly bestseller list.
Suzanne Collins’s much anticipated Sunrise on the Reaping is the week’s top seller by a mile, selling 1.2 million copies in the U.S. across all formats in its first week on sale, per its publisher, Scholastic. About 715,000 of those copies were in print, sold through retailers reporting to Circana BookScan—pushing a little more than 10 times as many print units as the week’s #2 title, The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, in the week.
In the U.S., Sunrise is already the year’s #3 overall bestseller, putting it just behind the Robbins, which has sold roughly 872,000 copies through outlets that report to BookScan in the year to date. It’s the second biggest debut of the year, after the deluxe edition of Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. That title remains the year’s bestselling book on BookScan, selling about 1.8 million print copies to date across its deluxe and standard editions.
“Sales for Sunrise on the Reaping have exceeded all expectations,” said Ellie Berger, EVP and president of Scholastic Trade, in a statement. In a release, the company noted that the book hit the top of the charts in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland, and Australia, selling 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.
In its starred review, PW called Sunrise “a brutal tale of compassion and rage, and a frank examination of propaganda and tragedy, that will satisfy longtime series fans and newcomers alike.” A feature film adaptation will hit theaters in November 2026.
