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The Association of American Publishers released Statshot data for December and 2025 as a whole, reporting strong sales for the month and sales just under flat for the year. In December, trade sales rose 14 percent to $752 million. The return rate fell to 12.5 percent from 13.7 percent in December 2024. Adult books sold $541.9 million, up 9.4 percent, with $270.7 million in fiction (up 2.9 percent) and $271.2 million in nonfiction (up 16.8 percent). Hardcovers sold $186.8 million (up 8.4 percent), paperbacks sold $191.7 million (up 25.8 percent), ebooks sold $67.4 million (down 4.2 percent), and audio sold …
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National Book Award Finalist Tea Obreht's SUNRISE, the story of three interconnected lives over 100 years in one ghost town: a place where secrets of the past refuse to stay buried; following a young woman who falls from a crashing plane and finds herself in this seemingly abandoned settlement of the Old West, where she stumbles upon an old mystery a century in the making—but will she survive long enough to solve it?, to Andrea Walker at Random House, with Sara Birmingham editing, … read more
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