For Children’s Books in 2013, Divergent Led the Pack In our annual Facts & Figures roundup, each year has its superstar. For 2011 and 2012, it was Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games (9.2 million copies sold in 2011; 27.7 million in 2012). In 2010, Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid came out on top (11.5 million copies sold), followed closely by Rick Riordan’s myth-based series (more than 10 million copies sold). The year before that, Stephenie Meyer and Twilight reigned supreme (26.5 million copies sold). And 2013 was officially the year of Divergent. The three books in Veronica Roth’s dystopian trilogy sold a combined 6.7 million copies last year (three million hardcovers, 1.7 million paperbacks, and just under two million e-books).
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 08:34:34 +0000
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