By Mollie Pennington PhD
Bestselling books are notoriously difficult to quantify. First, it’s hard to gauge overall digital sales in tandem with various print formats. Second, according to Publishers Weekly, figures are complicated by various lists that cover multiple categories across several formats. Bestsellers cover fiction, nonfiction, and genre as well as formats like trade paperback or hardcover editions. The titles on our list of 25 bestsellers from the last decade appear on lists compiled by Publishers Weekly, but they’re also stand-out books that probably have titles you remember or that remain familiar. Many of the books on our list were made into movies or captured the cultural zeitgeist
- The Shack
- Outliers
- The Host
- The Help
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Heaven is for Real
- Unbroken
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- The Hunger Games
- Me Before You
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck
- Inferno
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Divergent
- Gone Girl
- Go Set a Watchman
- The Martian
- The Girl on the Train
- A Man Called Ove
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- The Underground Railroad
- Becoming
- Little Fires Everywhere
- Where the Crawdads Sing
How many have you read ?
What’s in your bookcase ?
From the folks at Readers Digest
Great recommendations!