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This page provides lists of best-selling books and book series to date and in any language. "Best-selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book, rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [1] For the second consecutive year, the most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 7 weeks at the top of the list.
The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown. For many years, the list was maintained by Alice Payne Hackett , who also published a decennial series which summarized and commented on the best ...
Scribd, a subscription-based book service (think Netflix for books) recently came out with a study that details the most popular books in each state right now.. According to the map below, it's ...
Genre and/or major works Number of books Nationality William Shakespeare: 2 billion [1] 4 billion [2] English: Plays and poetry, e.g. Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet: 42 British: Agatha Christie: 2 billion [3] 4 billion [2] English Whodunits, including the Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot series 85 British Barbara Cartland: 500 million [4 ...
The young adult genre has gained plenty of traction in the publishing world, thanks in part to popular book adaptations like The Giver, The Maze Runner and our personal favorite, The Hunger Games.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [1] The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah with 5 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Duke and I by Julia Quinn with 4 weeks.
Here are the sci-fi and fantasy books we're looking forward to in 2024, including novels from Cixin Liu, Kelly Link, and more.