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Author Suzanne Collins has announced a new book, but it’s not quite in the same vain as her Hunger Games series…

Seeing The Hunger Games books on a bestseller list is no surprise, but this week Gregor the Overlander, the first book in Suzanne Collins‘ Underland Chronicles has broken onto USA Today’s bestseller list. The book, which was released in 2004, is at #11 on the list. It made the list one time before, all the […]

Now that he’s been cast as Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in the film version of Catching Fire, Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman is now rushing to read the Suzanne Collins books after enjoying the film script. “It’s a great group of actors. It’s a great environment. And the character was something I was attracted […]

Scholastic has announced that over 50 million copies of the popular The Hunger Games series have been sold in print and digital formats. Since the series first came out in Fall 2008, the series has seen steady growth in sales. The 50 million figure includes 23 million copies of The Hunger Games, 14 million of […]

After much speculation, Lionsgate has made the decision to split the final Hunger Games book into two films. “Mockingjay Part 1” is going to be released November 21, 2014, while “Mockingjay Part 2” will be released on November 20, 2015.

Lionsgate has announced that Francis Lawrence will be directing Catching Fire, the sequel to the hit movie The Hunger Games. Lawrence has directed such movies as I Am Legend, Constantine and Water for Elephants.

The popularity of eReaders has been growing non-stop. As of now there are There are 17,784 Kindle users. One of the things Amazon can do through their Kindle eReader is track the passages you highlight as you read.

For the second consecutive year, The Hunger Games books have been labelled among the most “challenged” books by the American Library Association. A challenge means “a formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness.”

Taylor Swift got a nice gift from Suzanne Collins – a signed copy of The Hunger Games for her two contributions to the soundtrack.

Those who have read the Suzanne Collins novel Mockingjay (finale of The Hunger Games series) might wonder how they can get those all-out battle sequences into a family-friendly PG-13 rated movie.