Sunrise on the Reaping is an upcoming dystopian novel written by the American author Suzanne Collins.

[3] The prequel begins on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell, which was won by character Haymitch Abernathy.

Haymitch realizes that a forcefield surrounds the arena and that anything thrown at it bounces back before hearing Maysilee be killed by genetically modified birds.

[4] As punishment for using the arena to his advantage, Haymitch's mother, brother, and girlfriend are all murdered by orders of President Snow.

[5] Collins was inspired for the book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, specifically his ideas of implicit submission and "the easiness with which the many are governed by the few".