Led by John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, the top of the 2014 print best-seller list was dominated by children’s and young adult titles that sold more than a million copies. Green’s novel, adapted into a film that opened in June, sold more than 1.8 million paperbacks last year according to Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks about 80% of print book sales.
Jeff Kinney’s diary book ninth in a series for wimpy kids, The Long Haul, landed at No. ). roughly 20% of total long-distance sales occurred in the first week, when the book sold nearly 320,000 units, the highest first-week sales of the year. All three books in Veronica Roth’s popular young adult Divergent trilogy, Divergent (1.4 million copies sold), Insurgent (1.3 million copies sold), and Allegiant (1.2 million copies sold), reached the third, fourth and sixth place, respectively. .
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In fact, according to Nielsen, the only adult title to sell more than a million copies in print last year was Killing Patton, the fourth book in the Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. the book, released on September 23, sold 1.19 million copies and came in at number five on the list. The book also topped the adult nonfiction list, followed by Jesus Calling by Sarah Young, which sold more than 700,000 copies for the year.
In addition to The Fault in Our Stars, other books with big-screen adaptations thrived in 2014. Gillian Flynn’s 2012 phenomenon The Lost Girl, adapted into a film released in October, ranked #1 on the adult fiction list (the movie-tie in claimed #4) and #7 on the overall best-seller list. The first film based on Roth’s series, Divergent, will hit theaters in March (the big-screen version of Insurgent will be released in March, and the final book, Allegiant, will be split into two subsequent films).
frozen, a golden book by victoria saxon based on the disney sensation of the same name (the highest-grossing animated film of all time), sold over 780,000 copies, peaked at number 10 on the overall chart, and was ranked number 1 eighth place on the minor list, where four other frozen books were added. August’s film adaptation of Gayle’s young adult novel Form If I Stay sent the book to the best-seller list all year: it garnered nearly 750,000 copies in 2014 (the hardcover, released in April 2009, sold approximately 40,000 copies in its first year on sale, according to Nielsen).
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Laura Hillenbrand’s continued success at #3 on the Adult Nonfiction chart, selling over 660,000 copies. The book, first published in 2012, was adapted into a film by Angelina Jolie and was released on Christmas Day.
Moving to digital, Green also topped Amazon’s Kindle bestseller list, followed by Lost Girl in second place. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, reached #4 on Amazon’s list (the book was #5 on the Adult Fiction Print list). once again, the 2014 charts revealed that, with the exception of unbroken at #10, fiction continues to digitally outperform non-fiction. Killing Patton, the best-selling adult non-fiction print title and the only adult print title to sell more than a million copies last year, did not make the top 50 on Amazon’s Kindle list for 2014 (at 30 December, sat at #56).
editor’s note: on the youth top 20 list, blood of olympus, book five of rick riordan’s heroes of olympus series, failed to make the top 20 because it is sold under two separate isbns, Even though it’s the same book. a special edition for barnes & noble sold 209,356 copies, while the regular hardcover sold 445,128 copies. combined sales of 654,484 copies sold would place the book at number 16 on the junior list.
Top 10 Print Sellers, 2014
source: nielsen bookscan
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top 10 amazon kindle sellers, 2014
source: amazon. sales are until December. 30, 2014
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Nielsen Bookscan’s Top 20 Nonfiction Books for Adults
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