The Recurring Cast
Character guide · 10 books · 2003 to 2025 · Mostly set in New York

Suzanne Collins

Young adultChildren’sYA dystopian and science fictionMiddle-grade fantasyAdventure and mystery

Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy is set in Panem, where children are chosen each year to fight to the death on television. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to save her sister. The prequels follow the young Coriolanus Snow and Haymitch Abernathy. She also wrote the Underland Chronicles for younger readers.

Best estimate, compiled from series guides, publisher descriptions and reviews where available, and from memory otherwise. Book level only, not chapter level. Minor includes cameos and brief references. Each book carries a confidence rating in its tooltip. Story order: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Sunrise on the Reaping, then the trilogy.

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Suzanne Collins books in order

Each series in publication order, with its lead characters. Where the story runs in a different order, switch to Story order. Crossover books are marked and listed under their main series. Use My books to track what you have read.

The Hunger Games

5 books · Set in Panem · story order differsYA dystopian and science fiction
  1. 1The Hunger Games2008With Katniss EverdeenBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Catching Fire2009With Katniss EverdeenBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Mockingjay2010With Katniss EverdeenBuy on Amazon
  4. 4The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes2020With Coriolanus Snow and Lucy Gray BairdBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Sunrise on the Reaping2025With Haymitch AbernathyBuy on Amazon

Underland Chronicles

5 books · Set in New YorkMiddle-grade fantasyAdventure and mystery
  1. 1Gregor the Overlander2003With GregorBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane2004With GregorBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods2005With GregorBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Gregor and the Marks of Secret2006With GregorBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Gregor and the Code of Claw2007With GregorBuy on Amazon

Characters

12 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

Panem

The Underland