Audiences have moved toward fun fiction and away from furious facts as Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' takes a tumble to #3 on the iBooks list, while 'The Woman in the Window' by A.J. Finn—a book editor who now writes thrillers under a pen name—takes the #1 slot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline has acquired How to Find Love in the Little Things by French author Virginie Grimaldi, translated by Adriana Hunter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Daniel H. Pink’s ‘When’ is the #10 book in the country. Plus a pair of psychological thrillers scare up spots on our lists, and YA author Neal Shusterman makes some noise with ‘Thunderhead.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eric Vuillard’s Goncourt Prize–winner The Agenda, a historical novel about the Nazi annexation of Austria, remained at #1 in France. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
With nearly 480,000 copies sold, Ree Drummond’s 'Come and Get It' was last year’s top selling print cookbook. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' remained the top seller in Apple's iBooks store for the week ended January 14, 2018, even though the uproar surrounding the White House exposé finally died down. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Topped by Margaret Atwood, the UK’s Top 10 bestselling authors of literary fiction last year features only one male writer, Haruki MurakamiFlying in the face of Norman Mailer’s infamous comment that “a good novelist can do without everything but the remnant of his balls”, Haruki Murakami was the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Women writers dominated the best-selling literary novels of last year, taking nine of the top 10 spots, according to an analysis of Nielsen BookScan sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The German book industry is nursing a hangover after a very disappointing 2017 in which not only the Christmas period but also the year as a whole fell short of expectations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The year the crayons quit, 2017 finally saw adult coloring books give way—but the usual Big Five dominance was as present as ever. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended January 7, 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Power,’ named to many “best of 2017” lists, is boosted onto our hardcover fiction list. Plus the movie tie-in edition of ‘Call Me By Your Name’ makes its first appearance on our lists, and former CPA Jesse Mecham explains why ‘You Need a Budget.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pre-holiday sales are bread-and-butter for retailers and publishers, and December 2017 was no exception for the religion categories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Donald Trump has this much in common with Barack Obama: Both presidents’ first years spawned books that chronicled crises. Obama’s crisis, however, was inherited. Trump’s has been largely self-made. Trump even provided the alliterative title — “Fire and Fury” — for the book that has roiled... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended January 5, 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Power,’ named to many “best of 2017” lists, is boosted onto our hardcover fiction list. Plus the movie tie-in edition of ‘Call Me By Your Name’ makes its first appearance on our lists, and former CPA Jesse Mecham explains why ‘You Need a Budget.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mary Higgins Clark and Karin Slaughter hit the top five on Apple's iBooks bestsellers list in the last week of 2017 with 'Where Are the Children?' and 'The Good Daughter,' respectively. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
While women dominate the charts, it’s been the year of the comeback kings: Philip Pullman, Jamie Oliver, Margaret Atwood …Last year JK Rowling reclaimed the No 1 spot in the bestseller charts by returning from mundane reality to the Potterverse (with the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Grisham's 'Camino Island' topped the iBook's bestsellers fiction list in 2017, J.D. Vance took the top honor in nonfiction for 'Hillbilly Elegy', and Mark Manson had the top-selling audiobook, 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Santa was good to booksellers this year. The week before Christmas, overall print unit sales were 7% higher than in the comparable week last year, and a lot of books saw substantial sales jumps. Here are the adult hardcover titles that saw the largest week-over-week increases in unit sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]