Titbit: Hunger Game Book Stats

Following are some Hunger Games stats from around the Interweb relating to the book.

This first book of the trilogy is now available in 26 languages and rights for publication have been sold in 38 countries.

According to the Scholastic site (Scholastic are the publishers of the book) there are 11 million copies of The Hunger Games book in print (putting it in the Top 20 for all paper-based copies of a book in print since 1999).

Hunger Games is on the USA Today and the New York Times best sellers lists. It was on the New York Times best seller list for 180 consecutive weeks (getting close to three years) since its release in 2008.

The Hunger Games was awarded both the New York Times Editor’s Choice Award and the prestigious New York Times Notable Book Award when it was released in 2008.

The Hunger Games has sold amazingly well in e-book format and is the first young-adult categorised book to sell over one million Kindle Reader copies making the author, Carolyn McCormick, only the sixth author to make the “Kindle Million Club”.

This month (March) Amazon announced that Collins had become the best-selling Kindle author of all time.

Amazon also released that of the 100 most-highlighted passages in all Kindle e-books 29 came from The Hunger Games trilogy and that 17 of the highlighted passages are in the Top 20.

The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set is currently No. 1 on the Barnes and Noble Best Sellers list, with book two of the trilogy (Catching Fire) in the third slot, book one (The Hunger Games) in forth position, and the third book, Mockingjay, which the New York Times reviewer insists is easily the best book of the series, sitting at seventh.

On the Barnes and Noble Top 100 for the year it goes:

1. The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set
2. Catching Fire (Book 2)
3. Mockingjay (Book 3)
4. The Hunger Games (Book 1)
5. all the rest follow from here . . .

If you want to see more about awards and rankings for Hunger Games then you can link over to the Scholastic media room for the trilogy (here).

So far I am up to Chapter 17 in my audible ‘reading’ of the first book.

And yes, as you can see, someone has made Hunger Games cupcakes (found here on Facebook, which in turn was a link-over from the Hunger Games Facebook page here). If they could work out some way of keeping them fresh for shipping I think they could make a small fortune selling them on the Interweb.

Why is Hunger Games so popular? Well the theory seems to be that, unlike Harry Potter and Twilight, The Hunger Games appeals not only to teens and young adults, but adults are buying the book as well giving Hunger Games a whole additional buying group.