The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella. The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #5). An asterisk denotes a title for which sales figures were provided in confidence, to be used for ranking purposes only.ġ. They reflect sales in calendar year 2010 (minus returns). Note: the figures that follow were provided by the publishers. Other strong e-book sellers, all with crossover in readership: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Fallen and Torment by Lauren Kate Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare and The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell. Elsewhere around the e-list, Hunger Games sold a combined 350,000 e-books, House of Night sold 187,000, Pretty Little Liars sold 167,000, and James Patterson sold 135,000. Stephenie Meyer and Rick Riordan each sold around half a million e-books with Meyer's enormous crossover audience, it's fair to assume that many of those buyers were adults, but Riordan's numbers indicate that the e-needle has begun to move significantly for younger readers as well. This was the first year we collected e-book sales figures, and as one might expect, the big series raked in the biggest numbers. Want more? Four-and-a-half million Fancy Nancy books, 3.2 million House of Night books, 2.4 million Pretty Little Liars books, and 1.5 million in the Immortals series, 1.8 million copies of The 39 Clues.

Riordan's various series added up to more than 10 million copies sold nearly four million Hunger Games books were sold and James Patterson's assorted series sold just over 2.5 million copies. Sales of Twilight books, while still significant, cooled somewhat last year-just over 8.5 million books sold in 2010 vs. The Wimpy Kid had a not-very-wimpy total: 11.5 million copies sold, of seven titles.

Eighteen books for children and teens sold more than a million copies last year: all of them were from authors of big franchises: Jeff Kinney, Stephenie Meyer, Rick Riordan, Suzanne Collins, PC and Kristin Cast. That's the clear message from our compilation of last year's bestselling titles. If you want to sell in the mega-numbers, write or publish a series. Click over to the rest of our 2011 Facts & Figures coverage:

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