‘Mockingjay’ Tops All National Bestseller Lists
New York, NY (September 2, 2010) — Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, announced today that Mockingjay, the final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, sold more than 450,000 copies (hardcover and eBook) in its first week on sale in the U.S., debuting at #1 on both the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists. In addition, Scholastic announced that it has gone back to press for an additional 400,000 copies, bringing the total number of copies in print for Mockingjay in the U.S. to 1.6 million since its publication on August 24, 2010.
“After months of anticipation, sales for Mockingjay have exceeded all expectations, as has the outpouring from countless teen and adult fans of the trilogy who have been blogging, tweeting, and coming out to meet Suzanne Collins on the first leg of her North American tour,” said Ellie Berger, President of the Scholastic Trade Publishing division.
This is more than deserved! Mockingjay is a amazing book! I LOVE IT!!!
Yay! Congrats must be made for that!
Yay! Congratulations, SC! You deserve it!
amazing!
YAY! i kinda expected it to, though. The book was EPIC!
Awesome! But yes, I am not surprised. I am anxious for any interviews with Suzanne Collins about the writing of this book. I am so curious as to why she took it the direction she did.
Mokingjay is amazing!!!
sorry spelt mockingjay wrong :/
awwwwwwwwwwesommmmmmmmmmmmeeee
Shocker there… not. Well not the best of the series but still awesome.
it definatly deserves it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, to be honest, I don’t think it deserved that honor, but good for Suzanne Collins anyways.
YAY! Congrats Suzanne.
Why Am I not surprised?… I knew it was gonna be a NY and USA bestseller. I really love the Hunger Games!
yessss that is soo cool plus i completed an impossible task 2day, convinced by brother to read the hunger games then my dad can read it and then my mother 2sisters bother father and myself would hav all read the hunger games!!!!!!!!
Amazing!! Suzanne is great! And The Hunger Games is great!! BEST BOOK SERIES EVER!
AWESOME!!!!!!!
She deteriated these characters so much in this book I’m heartbroken. She tore down each one of them and took away all of our reasons for falling in love with them or at least being fond of them (Haymitch Finnik) I was so disappointed with the direction she went I felt like it was all destruction and I get that it was war, but they’ve already lived under communisim and then endured the hunger games so I don’t think this would have changed their characters so drastically. It was like katniss was dead and Peeta never resurrected. Still a pag turner, I’m still a devoted fan, but totally bugged that the only character that stayed true was dang Snow.
YUSSS. Gotta love the Hunger Games series <3
I have to agree with KROB !!
everything he said is true, to me at least.
@krob that’s exactly how i feel im heartbroken,and it just makes me so mad everything you said is true i fell in love with these characters and i feel like all them died on the inside if they didnt die!
For those who have already finish reading Mockingjay, can you give me some feedback? I have mixed feelings about Katniss choices rifht at the end.
Suzanne is coming to Washington Dc on September 23 to do signings! Can’t wait to see her once again.
I loved Mockingjay sooooooooo much!!!!!!!! It was epic!!!!!! But I do agree with KROB, the book made me cry soooo hard. But I still loved it!!!
I agree!!! Had so much fun reading this…laughter (very little) crying (a lot) and excitement when i got my hands on the book!!
yay!
yay
YAY! GO HUNGER GAMES!
Damn Straight!! Yay Mockingjay~!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!
PPL OF COURSE THERE WAS DESTRUCTION AND A LOT OF DEATH IN THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!! THEY WERE FIGHTING A WAR FO HEAVENS SAKE! AND HONESTLY IN LIFE A LOT OF PPL DIE IN WARS!!! AT LEAST SHE MADE IT REALISTIC I MEAN U HAD TO NO A LOT OF PPL WERE GOING TO DIE. ITS A WAR!!!!!!!!!
I’m so happy for the trilogy’s success! <333
Finished Mockingjay!!!! So happy for her decision!! Real or Not Real? But the book was also sad.
Somehow I kenw this would happen!! This is TOTALLY well deserved! I ADORE mockingjay, only it’s a little sad and dark until the end. But It’s still awesome and one of my fave books EVER!!! yeah!!
Mocking Jay was good, but to me it was also a little disapointing.
I loved this book so much! Like so much! i just wish she would have explained more at the end, like i wouldve liked to witness her and peeta growing back together. at least to the point where she telles him Real! that she loves him. i think the end she kind of bailed out of. and finnick! oh my ! i wanted him to survive sooo bad!! and Haymitch (secretly i was hoping he and katniss’s mother would fall in love and he could be her father type figure.) but what can you do.
It was really good, i couldnt put it down but the direction she took in the end suprised me so much. And im kinda disappointed at how quickly it ended, it feels unfinished to me. and it made me cry because of the ppl that died): and what happened to Gale!?!?! Do him and katniss remain friends!?!?! it was left way to unfinished to me
I love the Hunger Games i at first didn’t want to read it because of the cover and now I’m obsessed with the books “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” and i can’t wait till i read Mockingjay!!!!!!!!!!!!!