Jussi Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hugh Howey update Wool has been picked up in over 30 countries, and I’ve sold over two million books worldwide. Ernest Cline update Ready Player One has now sold 400,000 copies across all formats (60,000 hardcovers; 170,000 ebooks; 250,000 paperbacks in print) and continues to sell thousands of copies a month. https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/assets/OrionPublishingGroup/downloads/Catalogues/Orion-Catalogue-July-2015-to-January-2016.pdf Ben Aaronovitch update The PC Grant series has sold more than 650,000 copies in total Scott Lynch UK numbers The Gentleman Bastard series has sold over 300,000 copies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Andy WeirThe Martian debuted on the New York Times best-seller list at No. 12 this past March. Since then, the book (now in paperback) has sold 180,000 copies David Weber and John Ringo updates (2014): Weberwith over 7.8 million copies of his books in print Ringowith over 3.3 million books in print Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Jack Williamsontotal sales of well above two million copies. Dacre StokerI also co-authored a sequel to the novel Dracula, named Dracula The Un-dead, (Dutton 2010) which became a NY Times bestseller, was translated into 22 languages and sold approximately a million copies worldwide. Robert A. Heinlein updateRobert Heinlein's novels have sold more than 50 million copies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerokNor Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 New numbers from Heyne's 2015/2016 catalog: They claim 400 million worldwide for Stephen King (p. 9).Andy Weir's The Martian is said to have sold at least a million worldwide (p. 139). I don't know how plausible that is, with the EW article posted earlier claiming 180.000 copies as of last November, but that's probably US only.German brothers Tom and Stephan Orgel, writing as T.S. Orgel, have sold 50.000 copies of their Orcs vs. Dwarves series (p. 165).J.R. Ward is up to 2.8 million copies sold in Germany alone (p. 170).Julie Kagawa has sold 200.000 copies in Germany alone (p. 178).Lauren Kate has sold 200.000 copies in Germany alone (p. 194). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Lev Grossman (August 2014)The Magician’s Land, debuts at #8 on our Hardcover Fiction list with 8,381 copies sold. The new book has garnered praise in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, among others, and NPR interviewed Grossman during his promotional trip to Comic-Con at San Diego. The author is drawing additional buzz from the announcement that the SyFy channel is developing a TV series based on The Magicians; that book pubbed in 2009 and has since sold more than 200,000 copies in hardcover and paper combined. The sequel, The Magician King, has sold nearly 60,000 copies in print formats since its 2011 pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Anthony Ryan update (May 2015) All in all I sold 45,000 copies as a self-publisher and the series as a whole has sold over 200,000 copies since being traditionally published. James Dashner update (February 2015) Just in North America alone, sales of The Maze Runner series are now over 10 million copies. I’m not sure about the rest of the world quite yet. But in relative terms, the series is growing by even larger proportions outside of the USA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Ransom Riggs update Ransom Riggs is the author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Quirk, 2011), a New York Times best seller with more than 2 million copies sold Terry Goodkind update The epic finale to the THE SWORD OF TRUTH series: 16 volumes 20 years in the making, 26 million copies sold. Kristin Cashore In 2007, she signed Kristin Cashore, who has since sold over 350,000 copies in the UK. Sarah Prineas (2013) The Magic Thief has sold approximately 300,000 copies in the U. S. alone, and the trilogy has been published in 17 languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemeos2 Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Thanks for everyone's work. The value of your work is unimaginable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemeos2 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 New: William Goldman sold 1 million copies with just the book "Pricess Bride".http://www.harcourtbooks.com/PrincessBride/discussion_guide.asp Update: Gregory Maguire has sold ten million copies. Source: http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/02/from_page_to_stage_author_greg.html Update to Madeline L'engle: The Wrinkle in time alone has now sold 14 million coppies.Source: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/17/never-seen-passage-madeleine-lengles-wrinkle-time-found Update to Cassandra Clare. She has now sold 36 million copies.Source: http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Cassandra-Clare/35026200 Update to Terry Goodkind. He has sold 26 million copies alone from his series Sword of Truth.Source: http://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781784972042/warheart-sword-of-truth-book-15 New: Laini Taylor. She has sold one million copies.Source: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/61481-re-opening-the-book-on-daughter-of-smoke-bone.html Update: Ransom Riggs has sold two million copies.Source: http://www.amazon.com/Library-Souls-Peregrines-Peculiar-Children/dp/159474758X New: Kami Garcia Caster Chronicles alone has sold 1.5 million copiesSource: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/55538-movie-alert-beautiful-creatures.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Anthony Ryan update (August 2015)the series as a whole has gone on to sell over 300,000 copies in the US and UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Lawrence Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 From Brandon Sanderson's assistant: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/3gtsjs/theres_a_big_following_for_the_gentleman_bastards/cu306h9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted August 22, 2015 Author Share Posted August 22, 2015 From Brandon Sanderson's assistant: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/3gtsjs/theres_a_big_following_for_the_gentleman_bastards/cu306h9 Ha. The figures I got came straight from Brandon's agent ;) And 12.5 million for the WoT books is completely believable, the sales of that series are staggering (and, from different sources, rather higher than what has been publicly disclosed). That's not even counting A Memory of Light, which I'd heard had sold even better than the previous volumes (possibly lots of people who'd given up mid-series coming back to see how it all wrapped up). The caveat I had from the agent was that Brandon's solo sales had exploded in the previous year or two (the sales data he was working with was older), so his solo work being up to 6 million by now is easily believable. A big update to the sales list is in the planning stages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Lawrence Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Ha. The figures I got came straight from Brandon's agent ;) And 12.5 million for the WoT books is completely believable, the sales of that series are staggering (and, from different sources, rather higher than what has been publicly disclosed). That's not even counting A Memory of Light, which I'd heard had sold even better than the previous volumes (possibly lots of people who'd given up mid-series coming back to see how it all wrapped up). The caveat I had from the agent was that Brandon's solo sales had exploded in the previous year or two (the sales data he was working with was older), so his solo work being up to 6 million by now is easily believable. A big update to the sales list is in the planning stages. I was just minding my own business and pimping your list when he jumped in - so thought I'd pass it on. :) You can put me down for 800,000! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unJon Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 I was just minding my own business and pimping your list when he jumped in - so thought I'd pass it on. :) You can put me down for 800,000! Nice! Very well deserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anasûrimbor Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Very interesting thread. Did not know so many books sold in the millions and multi-millions. Hooray for the genre! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Patrick Rothfuss updateOver 3 million copies sold worldwide Ernest Cline updatehas sold over a half million copies in the U.S.Joe Abercrombie update (August 2015)An incredible stat that we stumbled across was that Joe's novels have sold over half a million copies globally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerokNor Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 The author's introduction in the Star Trek: The Lives of Dax anthology (1999) states that Michael Jan Friedman has five million copies of his books in print in the US. Most of those are bound to be his Star Trek ties. This also makes me wonder where other high-profile Trek writers stand, like Peter David, or William Shatner/the Reeves-Stevenses for that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 Joe's sold over 3 million novels globally, from the horse's mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Thanks, Wert. Marie LuMore than 2 million copies of her books have been sold. Max Brooks updatehaving sold over 4 million copies of his books Fatherland by Robert Harrisat the time of writing this review, it has sold over six million copies worldwideLauren Katehave sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerokNor Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 The Strugatzky brothers had a print run of at least 50 million books, according to various obituaries about Boris' death in 2012 (example). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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