The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the 10th annual Hunger Games. The Capitol is still a war-scarred city rebuilding itself. Eighteen- year-old Coriolanus Snow has been handed the lowest honor of his academy career: mentoring the girl tribute from District 12.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set sixty-four years before The Hunger Games. It is the chronologically second book in the series, but most readers should save it for after the original trilogy.