Book sales update

Print book sales are holding steady for 2023, down about 2 percent versus last year, according to Circana BookScan. In April, adult fiction made up 70 percent of the monthly bestsellers on a print basis. New releases that recently hit BookScan’s top-10 list include the thriller novel Simply Lies by David Baldacci (Hachette); You Can’t Joke about That by Kat Timpf (HarperCollins); true-crime story The Wager by David Grann (Random House); and Meals She Eats (DK Publishing), a health book by Tom Sullivan and Rachael Sullivan.

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