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Jun 2, 2024 · A version of this list appears in the June 2, 2024 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings on weekly lists reflect sales for the week ending May 18, 2024. Lists are...
Jun 2, 2024 · The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks ...
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- Total Number of Books on The New York Times Ya Bestseller List
- Gender Breakdown: Who Is Hitting The List?
- Diversity in The Young Adult New York Times Bestsellers List
- Queer Books on The Ya Bestsellers List of The New York Times
- Nonfiction on The Ya Best Seller List
- Fun Trends in Ya Seen Via The NYT Best Seller List
Remember that there are three years’ of data that only include half of the lists, so these numbers reflect the available data and not the titles which are missing. 1. A total of 4,446 YA books have graced the lists 2. 522 unique YA books have hit the list
Determining the gender breakdown of the New York TimesYoung Adult Best Sellers list is tricky. It requires defining gender to begin with, which we know is fluid as opposed to rigid. To make determinations on gender, I went by the pronouns used by each of the authors. This is not deterministic of gender, but it is the easiest tool to create a breakd...
Same caveat here applies in that the first three years do not include the entire lists, so data here may be undercounting. Each author’s identity was determined by their own bios. If they included their ethnic or racial background as one that was not white, they were included here. It is and has to be imperfect, but it is as close as can be accurat...
How do you quantify queerness of books? Is it the author’s identity, suggesting that whatever a queer author writes comes from a queer perspective? If so, then what happens when the author’s sexuality evolves? Is one more “real” than the other? (The answer is no.) If it’s content of the book, this, too, gets tricky. Queer books have queer-themed co...
Despite campaigns for the New York Times to consider YA nonfiction separate from fiction, the lists continue to count nonfiction against fiction. What this means is most nonfiction never has a shot at the list. The titles that do land there are those with a celebrity name attached or that are by big name YA authors. I’ve included, for example, poet...
We’ve now looked at some of the biggest categories and topics that have emerged on the New York TimesBest Selling Young Adult Books list. How about some fun or off-beat stuff, too? 1. The Hate U Give is the most frequently occurring book title, followed by One Of Us Is Lying, The Fault In Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, and Five Feet Apart. 2. The y...
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Dec 21, 2022 · Key Background. Hoover self-published her first book, Slammed, in 2012, which made the New York Times’ best-seller list.Her books are often a dramatic mix of romance and plot twists. The 43-year ...
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Mar 10, 2022 · Gregory Cowles. Senior Editor, Books. Twitter: @GregoryCowles. IN LOVE: A Memoir of Love and Loss, by Amy Bloom. (Random House, $27.) This memoir by an acclaimed novelist is about her marriage ...
Jan 27, 2022 · LAST RESORT, by Andrew Lipstein. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27.) This entertaining debut novel is about Caleb, an aspiring author in his 20s who lacks a compelling subject until he reunites with a ...
