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The Hunger Games: where to start reading
Adapts The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
DystopianYASci-fi
5 parts
on screen
3 books
to read
Tracks closely
from the books
After The Hunger Games, in the books you are
at The Hunger Games.
through the end of the first book.
The first film adapts the first novel across its full run.
Start reading at The Hunger Games (the first novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the movies already showed you.
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · Book 1 of 3
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What the movies changed here
- ChangedThe book stays inside Katniss's head. The film adds outside scenes with President Snow and the Gamemakers running the arena.
- CutMadge, the mayor's daughter who gives Katniss the mockingjay pin in the book, is dropped. Katniss gets the pin another way.
- CutThe Avox girl, a mute Capitol servant Katniss recognizes with a guilty backstory, is left out.
- InventedThe film cuts to a control room where Gamemakers design the arena, a vantage the book never shows.
- InventedThe film shows unrest breaking out in District 11 directly on screen, something the book only relays to Katniss later.
- ChangedKatniss's fiery interview dress uses real flame effects on screen instead of the book's light-catching gems.
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The Lionsgate films adapt Suzanne Collins's novels one book per film, in publication order, except that the third novel Mockingjay was split across two films. The prequel films each adapt a standalone prequel novel.
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