Sunrise on the Reaping

What Sunrise on the Reaping is about

Suzanne Collins's 2025 novel returns to Panem twenty-four years before the first Hunger Games book, and follows Haymitch Abernathy in District 12. He lives with his poor widowed mother and younger brother Sid, secretly distills moonshine for a bootlegger, and loves Lenore Dove Baird, who belongs to the traveling musical group called the Covey. Then comes the 50th Hunger Games, a Quarter Quell in which each district must send four tributes instead of two. Haymitch's fellow District 12 tributes include Wyatt, Louella and Maysilee, and he is assigned mentors Wiress and Mags.

The story shows how the Capitol uses spectacle and propaganda to keep people in line, and how one young man chooses defiance. Haymitch even adopts a charming rascal persona to win sponsors, and Beetee brings him into a secret plan. A prequel to Collins's earlier novels, it will suit readers of the series who want to know how the man they met as a mentor came to be.

Why Sunrise on the Reaping is on the Rising chart

Its Wikipedia page had 102,912 views last month, up 59% on the two months before; 914 readers have shelved it on Open Library since 2025; 31 are reading it right now. The Rising score blends six public signals, each scored from 0 to 100 against the other new books and weighted as shown.

Rising Wikipedia attention is up 25% or more on the two months before.

Sunrise on the Reaping on the Rising chart: history

First on the chart this month. The history grows with every monthly update.

How we know

This page uses public data: Open Library reader counts and ratings, and Wikipedia page views. The description is paraphrased from real source text (Open Library or Wikipedia). A book is on the Rising chart only if it was published in 2025 or 2026 and its readers are active and its interest is not falling. Rankings reflect reading interest, not quality or sales. Read the full methodology.