It’s difficult to believe that 2015 is half over, but it is. I feel like the months have flown by! Team Fuse has had a great year so far, and we have some big plans for the second half of 2015 so stay tuned.
Since the publishing climate can change rapidly, it’s good to sit back and analyze how things have changed in the last few months. Thankfully, BookScan has released a list of the best selling books of 2015 so far. This is the print sales list, for ebooks you may want to look at the PublishersWeekly website.
1 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
2 American Sniper by Chris Kyle (Morrow)
3 Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian by E.L James (Vintage)
4 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
5 Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Speak)
6 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (Ten Speed)
7 Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss (Random)
8 The Long Haul by Jeff Kinney (Amulet)
9 American Sniper (movie tie-in) by Chris Kyle (Harper)
10 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (Random)
11 Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Random)
12 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss (Random)
13 Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath (Gallup Press)
14 The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (Penguin)
15 Unbroken (movie tie-in) by Laura Hillenbrand (Random)
16 Jesus Calling by Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson)
17 The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
18 Legends and Lies by O’Reilly/Fisher (Holt)
19 Dead Wake by Erik Larson (Crown)
20 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Grand Central)
As usual, movie tie-in books take up many of the top spots and Dr. Seuss is almost always up there. The surprise is that there are only a few YA titles on the list. It has been awhile since that happened. I believe at this time last year, the top 8 or so titles were all YA (mostly John Green and Veronica Roth) and a large part of the list was also dominated by children’s Frozen tie-ins.
But most of the titles are adult fiction or non-fiction. That’s a definite shift and we’ll have to see if it continues throughout 2015.
On a personal note, I’ve read five of these 20 titles. I will have to add some to my TBR pile.
How many have you read?
