The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games Books have Crossed a Milestone

Posted By: Erin Gross • 0 Comments

The Hunger Games has hit a milestone. Now while I hate to post a picture of 50 Shades on here, ‘The Hunger Games’ has been competing with the book for the top selling title of 2012.

New figures released today by Scholastic suggest the dimming of the spotlight hasn’t mattered in terms of sales.
The company said the series has crossed the fifty million-copy threshold with twenty-three million copies of the original Hunger Games in print followed by fourteen million of Catching Fire and thirteen million for series finale Catching Fire.
The number of copies of the trilogy in print has more than doubled since the start of the year. At the beginning of the year, Hunger Games had about 23.5 million copies in print.
Ellie Berger, President, Scholastic Trade Publishing said, “It’s thrilling to see teen and adult readers enthralled by the same story and engaged in conversation about these books.”
The year-to-date bestselling charts are dominated by two series: Fifty Shades of Grey and the Hunger Games.
The two are running neck-and-neck for the title of best-selling series of 2012. Fifty Shades recently passed the 20 million-copy threshold. Hunger Games is slightly ahead at about 26 million. Fifty Shades publisher Random House cites books sold while Hunger Games publisher Scholastic cites books in print so exact comparisons are difficult.
In historic terms, Hunger Games sales are even with or slightly ahead of Twilight at similar point in that series’ history.