The Bestselling Books of 2015 (So Far)

Paula Hawkins’s debut psychological thriller The Girl on the Train was the top-selling title on the print and Kindle bestseller lists for the year to date. Film rights to the book, which went on sale in January, have already been optioned, and elsewhere on the print list other books with big-screen versions have had a strong showing so far in 2015. At #2 was Chris Kyle’s 2012 memoir American Sniper, which was adapted into the movie of the same name. John Green’s novel Paper Towns, published in 2008, hit at #5 on the list. The film version will open in theaters on July 24.

With less than two weeks of sales, E.L. James’s Grey, the newest installment in her Fifty Shades of Grey series, came in at #3 on the print list and #2 on Kindle. Donna Foley Mabry’s self-published Maude was the seventh bestselling Kindle book through July 1.

At this time last year, children’s and young adult books dominated the top of both the print and digital lists, but it was a different story in the first half of 2015. After Paper Towns, the next highest-ranking children’s title on the print list for the year thus far is Dr. Seuss’s perennial bestseller Oh the Places You’ll Go! at #7. Jeff Kinney’s The Long Haul, the ninth in his hugely popular middle-grade Wimpy Kid series, came in at #8. The book, released in November 2014, came in at #2 on the overall print bestseller list just months later, at year’s end.

BookScan Top 20 Print books, January 1–June 28, 2015

Amazon Top 20 Kindle e-books, January 1–July 1, 2015