Bestsellers

The volume of hardback books sold in the first week of publication by some of the bestselling authors is down compared to their previous titles, despite the fact that in some cases revenues have either remained flat or gone up marginally, analysis of Bookscan data reveals.  Read more

It's 9:30 on a freezing Monday night in January and there's a line stretching down the block outside of the Book Club Bar in the East Village of Manhattan. The occasion: a midnight release party for fantasy author Sarah J. Maas' new book, House of Flame and Shadow, the third entry in her Crescent City series.  Read more

According to publisher Gallery Books, The Woman in Me by Britney Spears has sold a total of 1.1 million copies through its first week on sale in the U.S. The combined sales figure includes preorders, sales of print books, e-books, and audiobooks formats. The book sold 418,000 print copies through outlets that report to Circana BookScan.

It's almost impossible to imagine.

Between 2010 and 2019, one of every seven crime novels published was by a single author-James Patterson. Working with co-authors, he became a novel writing phenomenon and much more, while many literary critics argued his work became much less.

In 1983, William Blatty-author of The Exorcist-sued the New York Times.1 His lawsuit alleged that the Times had incorrectly excluded his latest novel, Legion (a sequel to The Exorcist), from its bestseller list-the coveted ranking that purports to show the books that have sold the most copies that week in the United States.  Read more