Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins' 12 favourite books — from all-time classics to childhood favourites

Suzanne Collins, the author behind the wildly popular Hunger Games series, has been a household name since the first book hit the shelves in 2008. The trilogy concluded with Mockingjay in 2010 and was soon adapted into a successful film series.

A decade later, Collins revisited the dystopian of The Hunger Games with the prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, followed by another prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping, published this year.

Despite being a rather private individual, Collins did reveal her favourite books back in 2010, including childhood favourites and those she continually returns to.

In a chat with , she revealed her love for mythology, citing Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price and D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths as top picks from her childhood.

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She also mentioned fiction favourites such as A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer, and Boris by Dutch writer Jaap ter Haar, which she considers one of the best war stories for children, despite it being out of print in the US, reports .

Collins also shared some of her all-time favourite books that she frequently revisits, hinting at possible inspirations for her own writing.

Suzanne Collins's list of favourite books includes George Orwell's 1984 and William Golding's Lord of the Flies, both of which have had a visible impact on her own dystopian world of Panem in the Hunger Games series.

She also confessed to having re-read these books multiple times, admitting it was "embarrassing to admit" just how often. Her other favourite works of literature include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Germinal, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and A Moveable Feast.

12 Books loved by Suzanne Collins

• Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price
• D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer
• Boris by Jaap ter Haar
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Germinal by Émile Zola
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway