New York Times pulls YA novel from bestseller list after reports of fake sales

Lani Sarem’s Handbook for Mortals was taken off the No 1 spot after fellow YA authors, sceptical of ‘a book that no one has heard of’, uncovered a pattern of strategic preordersA young adult novel has been removed from the No 1 position on the New York Times bestseller lists, after detective work worthy of Nancy Drew by YA writers on Twitter uncovered a trail of strategic preorders being placed in particular US bookshops.Lani Sarem’s Handbook for Mortals is about “a free-spirited young woman, from a long dynasty of tarot-card readers, fortunetellers, and practitioners of magick [who] travels to Las Vegas and uses supernatural powers to become part of a premiere magic show”. It took the top spot on the New York Times young adult bestseller list this week, ahead of Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give. Industry monitor Nielsen Bookscan recorded 18,597 sales of Handbook for Mortals in one weekend. Related: Angie Thomas: the debut novelist who turned racism and police violence into a bestseller Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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