See, this is why J.K. Rowling was a genius. She wrote in the children’s fiction plus fantasy genre, so that puts her books in over half of the most popular books ever sold. The below chart shows an estimate of all the books ever sold by genre.
Which genre are you?
From ebookfriendly.com
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
The missing genres are probably included in the ones displayed, e.g., Sci-Fi in Fantasy Fiction, Romance in Modern Literary Fiction. However, I think they merit their own category, given the millions of loyal readers. Isaac Asimov would most likely agree with me 🙂
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And so would I Tina 😀
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Great graphics. There is definitely a lot of competition in the children’s book genre.
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Indeed Michelle 😀
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Very interesting. But where is romance? Also, Harry Potter was read by Y/A readers. Is it strictly a children’s book that inflated that category?
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There are several genre missing Diana – I saw this and reblogged it to see what you authors thought of it and so far, no-one is impressed by certain omissions 😀
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Interesting, and where is romance? Also, re: J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter was also popular with YA. Wonder how they categorized children’s fiction.
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As you know, I just published my first children’s book. I’m either a marketing genius, or a madman – to face such competition. The jury’s still out on that one… 🙂
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You Mean There’s a DIFFERENCE Nicholas? AHAHAHAH 😀 😀 😀
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No buddy, no difference (gently backs out the door). No difference at all (spins around, bolts outside, tears car door open, speeds away, tires screeching)
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Heheheh Cackle 😀 😀 😀
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I don’t see Science Fiction anywhere in either of the pie charts. Why not?
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Don’t know Jack – I only enhanced the clarity of the one they used 😀
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