30 January 2023
Both Romance & Sagas and Sci-Fi & Fantasy had banner years, with Romance's £53m its best since 2012, the year of E L James and Fifty Shades, and Sci-Fi & Fantasy's £47m its highest since 2007. Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us was the overall bestseller of the year, with four other Hoover titles in the top 10. Fellow TikTok-boosted authors Ali Hazelwood and Emily Henry joined Hoover at the top. It should be noted here that both Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing were coded as General & Literary Fiction.
