“Many of the recent decade's top-selling books, including these leaders, were tied to movie adaptations, which is a testament to the marketing power Hollywood brings to book sales," she said.ĭespite the notable decline of print media in recent years, NDP Bookscan said that over the same period, printed books still outsold e-books by a nearly four-to-one margin.īetween 20, NDP concluded that about 6.5 billion printed copies were sold, compared to 1.8 billion e-books. There’s no doubt that this is a self-publishing miracle. James, the woman who wrote Fifty Shades of Grey. She has authored two other books namely Fifty Shades Freed and Fifty Shades Darker. In a written statement, NDP Bookscan analyst Kristen McLean said book sales were closely influenced by Hollywood’s power, noting that most of the books on the list had been adapted into feature films. When it comes to promoting your self-published work, there’s no author that comes to mind as quickly as E.L. James, born in 1963, is an award-winning British author and novelist. The last remaining spots on the top 10 list were taken by John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo and Veronica Roth’s Divergent.
Gillian Flynn’s 2012 thriller Gone Girl, with 8.1 million copies sold, was narrowly beaten by Paula Hawkin’s 2015 The Girl on The Train, with 8.2 million copies cold, living up to reviewers’ billing for the novel to be "the next Gone Girl".