2022

Placeholder for last year. The stats should come rolling in soon.

According to Lit Hub these were the top 10 bestsellers of 2022.

rs Weekly:

1. Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us (Atria) – 2,729,007 copies sold

2. Colleen Hoover, Verity (Grand Central) – 2,000,418 copies sold

3. Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us (Atria) – 1,885,351 copies sold

4. Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing (Putnam) – 1,868,518 copies sold

5. Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love (Atria) – 1,502,036 copies sold

6. James Clear, Atomic Habits (Avery) – 1,287,253 copies sold

7. Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Washington Square) – 1,272,458 copies sold

8. Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him (Montlake) – 1,235,655 copies sold

9. Colleen Hoover, November 9 (Atria) – 999,552 copies sold

10. Jeff Kinney, Diper Överlöde (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #17 (Amulet) – 830,325 copies sold

I never heard of Colleen Hoover but she apparently raked it in last year. I read Where the Crawdads Sing and thought it was a stinker. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is on my TBR pile.

Hoover is new to me too, must be a master at promotion or got very lucky. Unusual to see one name dominate like that.

Reading the reviews, it appears TikTok had something to do with it. Its promo power puts even Oprah in the shade, but it's like winning the lottery if it points at you.

Reading some of the reviews of Hoover’s books, I doubt I would ever pick one up. One reviewer called it “trauma porn” and I gather there is lots of abuse and broken characters along with lots of sex. Someone should write a sociology paper on why this is so popular now.

According to the Booklist Queen these were the top nonfiction:
1. Untamed Glennon Doyle
2. Greenlights Matthew McConaughey
3. Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner
4. What Happened to You? Bruce Perry
5. The Storyteller Dave Grohl
6. The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones
7. Finding Me Viola Davis
8. Will Will Smith
9. American Marxism Mark Levin
10. I’m Glad My Mom Died Jeanette McCurdy

Nice job, Will, guess you still have a fan base.

>6 Cecrow: That one surprised me, too.

I wasn’t impressed by Will Smith’s autobiography. He tried so hard to be self aware and failed to a degree. Wondering how he will view it ten years down the road. I didn’t finish it.
Also sampled McConaughey‘s work, but it was so uninteresting.