There are several bestselling books with BookTok.

 There are several bestselling books with BookTok.

Finally, COVID's beneficial impact on print book sales has begun to wane. Sales for the first half of 2022 were 6% lower than sales for the equivalent period in 2021. Although it may seem like a significant decrease, the first half of 2019—the last year before the pandemic—saw a 15% increase.

The fact that adult and young adult nonfiction are mostly to blame for the decline in sales attests to the Internet's influence. The greatest adult nonfiction is still selling well despite the decline in nonfiction sales. James Clear's "Atomic Habits" is currently at the top of the charts and has sold even more copies than Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb."

 

Titles by Colleen Hoover have topped the bestseller list overall over the past 12 months. Hoover gains from the significant exposure that the hashtag BookTok garners on TikTok. This niche group enjoys exchanging ideas and focusing on books and literature. Even backlist books have the potential to become bestsellers with the support of the BookTok community.

The 2016 novel "It Ends with Us" by Hoover received favourable reviews and briefly appeared on the bestseller list. In 2020, the novel's popularity suddenly increased as a result of the exposure it received through BookTok. The second best-selling book this week is "Where the Crawdads Sing," which came in first. Speaking of, nobody I know hasn't read Crawdads, and sales have increased again, perhaps as a result of the movie's debut last month.

 

Additionally, well-known novelist Christine Feehan frequently appears on bestseller lists, including her most recent book, "Red on the River." Now, you might want to double-check that Feehan is the author and not her son Brian when you see her name displayed.

His first book, "Harmony of Fire," a paranormal romance trilogy, is now ranked number 12 on Amazon's hardback fiction bestseller list. At their neighbourhood bookstore, mother and son celebrated the simultaneous publication of their books.

 

Dick Francis, Lisa Scottoline, Mary Higgins Clark, Charles Todd (a mother-and-son team), and of course Jonathon and Faye Kellerman are other authors who have passed on the literary gene. There are undoubtedly more.

Chef Jacques Pepin and his more than 30 cookbooks may be favourites of yours. Look for his most recent book, "Art of the Chicken," on our shelves starting in September. Mostly a collection of his paintings of the common bird, it combines recipes for chicken and eggs. Furthermore, they are more like personal stories about a certain dish than actual recipes. Although he has already written a memoir titled "The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen," this cookbook reads more like a memoir. At 86, he's still going strong!

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