Here are the Bestselling Books of 2023 (So Far)

Publishers Weekly has simply launched an inventory of the bestselling print books of the first half of 2023. The listing is separated into Adult, YA, and Children’s books. Colleen Hoover is the large identify in bestselling books at the second, with seven titles in the prime 20 Adult bestsellers with collectively round 4 million gross sales.

It’s price noting that this isn’t a whole image of all the books offered this 12 months: it’s solely print (not audiobooks or ebooks), and it makes use of BookScan numbers, which don’t embody all retailers.

For all classes, these books are disproportionately by white authors. Even with extra authors of shade getting revealed than in earlier years, they’re not essentially getting the big advertising and marketing budgets that propel books to the bestseller listing — nor are they more likely to get the BookTok darling therapy that authors like Colleen Hoover have benefited from.

Here are the prime promoting print books of the 12 months to this point, based on Publishers Weekly and BookScan.

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