Can you believe it's already December? Another year has almost come and gone and soon it will be 2018. And while we don't yet know which books will be the breakout bestsellers next year, we can look back and tell you which books sold the most in 2017 (so far).Find the latest latest book, photos, videos and featured stories on Shine News.
SHINE provides trusted national and world news as well as local and regional perspectives. We identified the top-selling titles in the Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Juvenile categories based on print sales volume in Canada over a 48-week period from Jan. 2, 2017 to Dec. 3, 2017 (according to BNC SalesData, which tracks print sales in the English-language trade market).The only Canadian on the list, Margaret Atwood, secures two spots for the same novel with the TV tie-in edition of The Handmaid's Tale edging out the 2011 version.
The Handmaid's Tale TV show premiered in April 2017 and won an Emmy award in September 2017; earlier this year we looked at both of these factors in terms of their impact on the sales of this title. Clearly they were significant enough to land this 1986 title in two of the top 10 spots. John Grisham is no stranger to the bestseller list, and he also nabs two spots on the list: #8 for his newest release, Camino Island, and #4 for the mass market paperback edition of his 2016 novel, The Whistler.Half of the bestselling Fiction titles in 2017 are Thrillers. Ruth Ware's book The Woman in Cabin 10 has been the breakout hit of the year, selling more copies than Dan Brown's Origin.
(Though The Woman in Cabin 10 has been selling for all 48 weeks of this reporting period, while Origin was only released on Oct. 3.) Last year, Paula Hawkins was #2 (and #4) on the Fiction bestseller list for her debut novel The Girl on the Train, and this year her newest novel Into the Water lands in sixth spot. Three Historical Fiction titles made the top 10 list this year: The Alice Network was one of the books of the summer; Reese Witherspoon picked it as her Book Club Summer Reading Pick and Goodreads picked it as one of their Best Books of June. The second was Ken Follett's A Column of Fire, the third instalment in his epic Kingsbridge series. And rounding out the list is Kristin Hannah's novel, The Nightingale, out this year in paperback. The book was first published in 2005 and a film adaptation was optioned that same year, though it wasn't until 2017 that a release date for the movie was set, with Hannah also releasing details about her next novel, The Great Alone, both of which probably contributed to continued interest in this title.
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