Most Popular Book Genres Of All Time

Comics and textbooks are not included in this list.
Most popular book genres of all time. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable independent sources. The best romance novels of all time our romance list includes classics like pride and prejudice and gone with the wind historical romance like outlander and indigo as well as contemporary novels like the notebook and tipping the velvet. It s not even close.
Readers tend to be loyal to their favorite authors within the romance genre. This page provides lists of best selling individual books and book series to date and in any language best selling refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Romance novels are sold in grocery store checkout lines in monthly shipments from publishers to readers and online as well as via self publishing services.
Readers enjoy being scared and they re loyal to their favourites which is perhaps why king and koontz although having both written out of the genre. If you re talking about fiction in a modern society then romance is clearly the top close to half of all works of fiction purchased over the past fifty years or so in the western world are roma. The setting of these novels are reflective of the specific time frame when they were written.
Oct 28 2014 the infographic not only lists best selling books of all time but also estimates sales in most popular book genres. Chatebooks lists down five of the most popular book genres among today s readers young and old. It s a diverse list with something for every romantic.
Romance novels are perhaps the most popular genre in terms of book sales. The best thrillers ever written. With genre leader stephen king said to have a net profit of 400 million and dean koontz with 125 million horror s clearly a popular genre but it s undeniably a smaller niche than some of the popular genres valued at under 80 million.