In Suzanne Collins’s Catching Fire, what anniversary edition of the Hunger Games is held?

In Suzanne Collins’s Catching Fire, the Capitol holds the 75th Hunger Games.

The event is the third Quarter Quell, a special anniversary edition of the Games. For this edition, the tributes are selected from the existing pool of victors, meaning Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are forced back into the arena after winning the previous Games.

The 75th Games are significant because the Quarter Quell rule is announced during the reaping ceremony. Katniss volunteers to replace Haymitch Abernathy, while Peeta volunteers to take Haymitch’s place. Their return brings together victors from earlier years and intensifies the political conflict with the Capitol.

Catching Fire, the second novel in the trilogy, was published in 2009. It is followed by Mockingjay, while The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a later prequel set decades earlier.