Figure 1
Genre popularities. The breakdown of bestsellers into genre categories of (A) fiction and (B) nonfiction. Most bestsellers fall into Suspense and Mystery genres combined in fiction or Biography/Memoir and History genres in nonfiction. (C) The percentage of genre fiction (all fiction that can be classified as a specific genre, shown in dark green) and general fiction (all else, shown in light green) on the bestseller list over the years. The popularity of genre fiction has been increasing steadily since 2011