Are top book sells a reflection of our culture and what is going on in the world?
Publisher’s weekly sent out the bestselling print books of 2020. The report indicates that print books still outsell ebooks, but ebooks have definitely gained popularity in 2020. Interestingly, Amazon (the largest seller of ebooks) does not report its ebook sales to any major industry sources. The top 25 include: 1. Barack Obama, A Promised Land (2,574,531 copies sold) - Memoir / Political 2. Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun (1,311,147 copies sold) - Fiction YA Series 3. Dav Pilkey, Dog Man (1,240,277 copies sold) - Children’s book; 2019 top selling series 4. Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough (1,235,924 copies sold) - Biographical / Political 5. Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (1,235,099 copies sold) - Fiction YA series 6. Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing (1,132,973 copies sold) - Fiction published in 2018; #1 in 2019 7. Glennon Doyle, Untamed (1,018,536 copies sold) - Memoir/ Personal Development 8. Jeff Kinney, The Deep End (920,709 copies sold)