12/26/2023 0 Comments Ionia sentinel 2017 best of the best![]() Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry stayed on the list a healthy 32 weeks and spent four weeks-the most of any nonfiction hardcover-at the #1 spot. Only after beds were made, prayers dispensed, and apathy achieved did readers turn to science, politics, sociology, and issues of the day. McCraven), or pragmatic (Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck, which was the longest-running bestseller on that list, holding out for 40 weeks, at #1 for three of them). Our Hardcover Nonfiction list revealed that readers wanted advice, be it religious (Sarah Young’s Jesus Always and Chip and Joanna Gaines’s The Magnolia Story), inspirational ( The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu), authoritarian ( Make Your Bed by William H. Macmillan had the biggest gain on the paperback list, adding more than four percentage points compared to 2016. Hachette’s bestseller performance was helped a bit by its purchase of Perseus, which added three hardcover bestsellers. In hardcovers, HarperCollins showed a gain of 3.4 percentage points the Hachette Book Group was in third place, with a 13.4% share of hardcover slots and a 14% share of paperback slots. Tolkien’s Beren and Luthien.Īlthough Penguin Random House maintained its strong lead in most positions on the lists, it lost more than three percentage points on the hardcover list and 2.5 percentage points in paperback. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt also had two titles hit the list (one in two different editions): William Goldman’s The Princess Bride, plus a deluxe edition of that title, and J.R.R. Kensington had two titles on the hardcover fiction list: Banana Cream Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke and Lisa Jackson’s You Will Pay. Two were religious titles: The Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Cahn from Pen & Sword and Tyndale’s Without Warning by Joel C. Of the 279 hardcover fiction titles that hit the lists, a mere six came from outside the power publishers. In 2016, those figures were 87.8% and 79.2%, respectively. The Big Five controlled 86.8% of the available places on hardcover lists and 84.6% for paperback. What remains status quo is the conglomerates’ dominance of the bestseller lists.
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