Publishers Weekly has published their year-end wrap-up lists of the best-selling books of 2007. Andrew Wheeler, in this post, has massaged the data to come up with the best-selling science fiction, fantasy, and horror books.
The highest ranking hardcovers on the list are: #10, The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz (740,000 copies); #18, Blaze by Richard Bachman (581,000), and The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien (462,000). Number 1 on the hardcover list was A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2,201,865).
On the trade paperback list, #1 is Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, which sold 4,274,804 copies. Top genre titles on this list are The Road by Cormac McCarthy (1,364,722), The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (603,000), and Wicked by Gregory Maguire (281,431).
In mass market paperback land, #1 is Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts (2,247,730). Top genre titles were Next by Michael Crichton (1,600,000), Born in Death by J.D. Robb (955,073), and Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb (895,194).
It’s only on the children’s lists that genre tops the pack. The number 1 children’s hardcover was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (13,114,692). The number 1 children’s paperback was The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (1,337,680).
See Wheeler’s full listing here.
The Publishers Weekly lists are available here: hardcover, paperback, and children’s.