Top Selling Books Of 2020 So Far
NPD BookScan data is in for what the top selling books in the first half of 2020 are and there was no surprise, at least to those in the publishing know, that Where the Crawdads Sing took the top adult print sales slot. Also in the top twenty are Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere (Have you watched the Hulu adaptation?); Michelle Obama’s Becoming; Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race; Tara Westover’s Educated. In YA Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes took the top spot, with Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give and Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds’ Stamped making the top ten. Check out all the books along with how many units each title sold.
School Project Turns Into Real Book For Charity
Four 15-year-old students that completed a freshman economics class project at Long Beach Polytechnic High School decided to take the project and make it a reality. What was a business plan for a COVID-19 coloring book became a real coloring book, after creating Be The Change Coloring Co. and selling the 28-page coloring books with 40% of the sale going to a buyer selected charity. They’ve sold almost 2,000 books so far.
29 Free Short Stories
Inspired by a 14th-century collection of tales, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, The New York Times’ “Decameron Project is the first time in the magazine’s modern history that an entire issue is devoted to new fiction.” And that new fiction is 29 short stories written by some of our best writers today including Tommy Orange, Rivers Solomon, Téa Obreht, Margaret Atwood, Edwidge Danticat…