Most Popular Book Genres Of All Time

Chatebooks lists down five of the most popular book genres among today s readers young and old.

Most popular book genres of all time. The best romance novels of all time our romance list includes classics like pride and prejudice and gone with the wind historical romance like outlander and indigo as well as contemporary novels like the notebook and tipping the velvet. Romance novels are perhaps the most popular genre in terms of book sales. It s not even close.

For all you bibliophiles who would like these burning questions answered we ve listed and defined the most popular book genres in both fiction and nonfiction so you ll know exactly what to look for during your next visit to the bookstore. The best thrillers ever written. The setting of these novels are reflective of the specific time frame when they were written.

With genre leader stephen king said to have a net profit of 400 million and dean koontz with 125 million horror s clearly a popular genre but it s undeniably a smaller niche than some of the popular genres valued at under 80 million. Romance novels are sold in grocery store checkout lines in monthly shipments from publishers to readers and online as well as via self publishing services. Contemporary romance is the largest of all romance novel subgenres making up 41 of the books sales within its category.

The most popular book in this genre is a tale of two cities by charles dickens it was sold over 200 million times worldwide. Readers tend to be loyal to their favorite authors within the romance genre. Oct 28 2014 the infographic not only lists best selling books of all time but also estimates sales in most popular book genres.

The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable independent sources. If you re talking about fiction in a modern society then romance is clearly the top close to half of all works of fiction purchased over the past fifty years or so in the western world are roma. It s a diverse list with something for every romantic.