“However, print books have remained surprisingly resilient. “At the start of the decade, digital e-books were expected to decimate print book sales,” McLean said. Overall 6.5 billion print books were sold over the past decade, compared to just 1.8 billion e-books. “This consumer push for informational titles over fiction was reflected in larger non-fiction trends in the second half of the decade-such as the rise in cookbooks, self-help, and politics-which pushed more non-fiction titles into the top ten list,” said Kristen McLean, books industry analyst, NPD Bookscan. In 2010, nearly 80 percent of the top-selling titles were fiction, and by 2019 that percentage dropped to 32 percent. When comparing the top 10 adult books each year throughout the past decade, more non-fiction titles topped the NPD Bookscan charts in the second half of the decade than in the first half. Many of the recent decade’s top-selling books, including these leaders, were tied to movie adaptations, which is a testament to the marketing power Hollywood brings to book sales.
In fact, the series holds the top three positions on the decade’s top-ten ranking list, with nearly 35 million print and e-book sales, according to global information company The James, which sold 15.2 million copies from 2010 through 2019. PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., Decem– The best-selling book of the past decade in the United States was “Fifty Shades of Grey,” by E.L. book sales from 2010 to 2019, according to NPD Bookscan Nonfiction and screen adaptations led U.S.
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