The Hunger Games

Hunger Games trilogy surpasses Harry Potter books as bestselling series ever on Amazon

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Amazon. announced this morning that Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy has surpassed J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series in book sales. This establishes the bow-and-arrow toting Katniss Everdeen and her counterparts as the bestselling book series ever on Amazon.

The numbers include print and eBook sales, making this achievement all the more notable, as it has taken Collins’ series only four years and three books to achieve land in the first spot for Amazon, as opposed to fifteen years and seven books for Rowling’s the Boy Who Lived.

Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Books and Kindle at Amazon.com said in a statement that “to achieve this result in just four years is a great testament to both the popularity of the work and, we think, the growth in reading digitally during that time. Customers love these books and all three titles are consistently on our Top 10 lists in both print and Kindle formats, and ‘The Hunger Games’ is also the most-borrowed book in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.”