Amazon's top books of 2017 reflect the crazy-ass year we just lived through
Not even our reading habits were safe from 2017.
On Tuesday, Amazon Charts, Amazon's book ranking team, released data highlighting the top books and reading trends of 2017 ... and, well, the results are truly reflective of the crazy-ass year we just lived through.
Topping the list for most read fiction is Margaret Atwood's uncannily prescient dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, followed by Stephen King's tale of killer clowns It. Both novels had breakout adaptations this year after Hulu transformed Handmaids into an Emmy-winning television series and Andrés Muschietti brought It back to the big screen in September.
Meanwhile the most read nonfiction book of the year is a title perhaps we could all have used in 2017: The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson. Also on the list of top nonfiction is Minnesota Sen. Al Franken's memoir Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. Franken recently resigned from the Senate after multiple sexual harassment allegations.
In addition to revealing info like most read fiction and most read nonfiction of the year, Amazon also shared more granular reading data, like which books readers consumed faster on Kindle and Audible compared to others titles, the most listened to book on Alexa, and the most highlighted books on Kindle throughout the year.
Check out some highlights of Amazon's 2017 top reading trends below, and you can see Amazon Chart's full year in review here.
Top 10 Most Read Fiction:
by Margaret Atwood
2. It
by Stephen King
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J.K. Rowling
4. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
by George R.R. Martin
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by J.K. Rowling
by Mark Sullivan
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J.K. Rowling
by Amor Towles
9. Origin
by Dan Brown
10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K. Rowling
Top 10 Most Read Non-Fiction
1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
by Mark Manson
by J.D. Vance
3. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
by Ron Chernow
5. Born A Crime
by Trevor Noah
by Mel Robbins
7. How To Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie
8. Al Franken: Giant of the Senate
by Al Franken
9. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
10. I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons
by Kevin Hart
Top 5 Most Wished For
1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
2. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
4. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
5. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Most Listened to on Alexa
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Top 5 Unputdownable
(The Kindle and Audible books readers read faster than comparable titles)
1. Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
2. End Game by David Baldacci
3. Artemis by Andy Weir
4. Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich
5. The Midnight Line by Lee Child
Top 5 All Ears
(The books people listened to more than read)
1. The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage by Mel Robbins
2. I Can't Make This Up by Kevin Hart
3. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
4. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
5. The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson
