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Mockingjay is a 2010 dystopian young adult fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger Games series , following 2008's The Hunger Games and 2009's Catching Fire .
The first two books were both New York Times best sellers, and Mockingjay topped all US bestseller lists upon its release. [2] [3] By the time the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in 2012, over 26 million copies of the trilogy were in print, including movie tie-in books. [4]
In Books in the Media, a site that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (3.75 out of 5) from the site which was based on seven critic reviews. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Guardian praised the book, writing, "Collins's themes of friendship, betrayal, authority and oppression, as well as the extra layers of lore about mockingjays and ...
As Collins readies the release of her "Hunger Games" prequel, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," some of today's brightest young adult writers pay homage to the seminal author and her literary ...
Following the release of Suzanne Collins's novel The Hunger Games, on September 14, 2008, Hollywood film studios began looking to adapt the book into film. In March 2009, Color Force, an independent studio founded by producer Nina Jacobson, bought the film rights to the book.
The new book begins with the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, set 24 years before the original “Hunger Games” novel, which came out in 2008, and 40 years after Collins' most recent book ...
The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its cast and story, but criticism for its execution. It grossed $349 million worldwide against a production budget of $100 million, making The Hunger Games series the 20th-highest-grossing film franchise of all time, having grossed $3.3 billion worldwide.
The trilogy's second book, Catching Fire, was released in September 2009, and its third book, Mockingjay, was released on August 24, 2010. [15] Within 14 months, 1.5 million copies of the first two Hunger Games books were printed in North America alone. [16] The Hunger Games was on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than 60 weeks in a ...