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From the Bookseller https://www.thebookseller.com/bestsell ... life-is-this-just-fantasy

You would be forgiven for thinking that bookshops were caught in a landslide of fantasy fiction in 2024 with authors such as Sarah J Maas and Rebecca Yarros dominating the top end of the fiction charts – as seen in our Author Review of the Year in last week’s issue (The Bookseller, 17th January 2025). It was not just the spicy side of the genre represented either, with JRR Tolkien’s sales rising 21.3% year-on-year through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market and Brandon Sanderson appearing inside the top 50 authors of the year for the first time.

Looks like the new hardback Boxed Sets, new publications such as the Revised Letters and Collected Poems, and the 'signature' paperbacks are proving popular with the book-buying public.