2017: The Year in Best-Sellers

Published: Nov. 27, 2017, 10:53 p.m.

Talk to anyone who worked in book publishing this year and no matter how chipper the conversation may begin, once you\u2019re a few drinks in the talk will turn gloomy. Sales are flat, or down. There have been no market-defining breakout hits, no hot new genres to plump up the annual earnings statement. Everyone blames this on the election and the news.