The Bestselling Books of 2014 (So Far)

Young adult novels reigned over the top halves of the print and Kindle bestseller lists for the first six months of the year. John Green’s unstoppable The Fault in Our Stars was the bestselling e-book on Amazon from January to June, and its various editions occupied three spots on the print list. Green shared the leaderboards with Veronica Roth, whose novel Divergent, the first book in her enormously popular trilogy of the same name, hit #1 on the print list for the year to date.

Both Divergent and TFIOS were adapted into much-anticipated films, which were released in March and June, respectively. The remaining titles in Roth’s series will also get the film treatment, and it was recently announced that John Green’s Looking for Alaska is heading to the big screen, as well. (The novel, first published in 2005, came in at #7 on the print list.)

At #9, Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling was the highest-ranking nonfiction title on the print list for the first half of 2014. As for digital, the bestselling nonfiction book was Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northrup’s 1853 biography, which was adapted into a 2013 film that won the Oscar for best picture.

While many of the titles on both lists enjoyed boosts from the releases of film adaptations, five books on the print list were adapted to the page from the movie Frozen, the highest-grossing animated film of all time.

Looking at literary fiction, Donna Tartt’s 2014 Pulitzer win for The Goldfinch put the novel at #20 on the print list for the year, and at #5 on the e-book chart.

Nielsen Top 20, as of June 29, 2014

Amazon Kindle Top 20, as of July 2, 2014