At The Guardian they have a piece considering Bestselling books of 2014: did the booksellers get it right ?
The did-booksellers-get-it-right angle seems completely uninteresting to me, but the article does provide some always welcome hard numbers about (UK) sales -- premature though they seem to be (the year ain't over and, as with best-of-the-year list, I really do wish they'd wait).
Minecraft-handbooks seem to sell particularly well -- four titles are among the seven bestselling of the (almost) year. If not video games, then a film-tie-in seems to have helped too: John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl also performed very, very well.
The only bestselling title under review at the complete review is Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, with an impressive 239,932 sold. Meanwhile, Man Booker winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan seems to lag, with only 65,692 sold.
I look forward to a fuller list, less concerned with stale predictions and focused just on the final numbers.
Minecraft-handbooks seem to sell particularly well -- four titles are among the seven bestselling of the (almost) year. If not video games, then a film-tie-in seems to have helped too: John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl also performed very, very well.
The only bestselling title under review at the complete review is Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, with an impressive 239,932 sold. Meanwhile, Man Booker winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan seems to lag, with only 65,692 sold.
I look forward to a fuller list, less concerned with stale predictions and focused just on the final numbers.