What is The Hunger Games trilogy?
{{Infobox book series | name = The Hunger Games | books = [[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]<br />[[Catching Fire]]<br />[[Mockingjay]]<br />[[The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes]]<br /> | author = [[Suzanne Collins]] | country = United States | language = English | genre = [[Adventure novel|Adventure]]<br />[[Science fiction]] | publisher = [[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic]] | pub_date = {{hlist|2008–2010|2020|2025}} | media_type = Print (hardcover) }} '''The Hunger Games''' is a series of four [[Young-adult fiction|Young adult]] books by [[Suzanne Collins]]. The series tells the story of Katniss Everdeen. She is a girl who lives in a [[Fictional universe|fictional]] [[Dystopia|dystopian society]] called [[Panem]]. Panem is made up of the remains of the [[United States]] after a [[Nuclear war|nuclear crisis]]. This country holds an event called The Hunger Games. They have 24 [[teenager]]s (aged 12–18) competing to stay alive. The objective is to kill all other players and prevent other players from doing the same. The last person alive (or in the 74th annual Hunger Games' case, the last two people from the same district alive) has successfully won the Hunger Games. An upcoming fifth book in the series is set to be released on March 18, 2025.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Delgado|first=Sara|date=2024-06-07|title=The 'Hunger Games' Saga Is Officially Getting Another Prequel|url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-everything-you-need-to-know|access-date=2024-09-07|website=Teen Vogue|language=en-US}}</ref> == Setting == The books are set in a fictional country called Panem. Panem is split into 13 districts (Districts 1-12, Capitol). Previously, there was a district 13, but after the people in District 13 revolted against and declared war on the Capitol and lost, they were removed from Panem. The revolts resulted in the Capitol starting the Hunger Games, intended to scare the citizens and remind them that the Capitol is in