Figure 8

Bestsellers and gender. (A) The breakdown of the New York Times hardcover bestseller list by the author’s gender. Fiction bestsellers are equally likely to be written by female or male authors, while most nonfiction bestsellers are written by male authors. (B) One year sales of the fiction bestsellers written by different gender groups, (C) the same for nonfiction. A breakdown of the bestselling book categories by gender, fiction (D) and nonfiction (E). Median yearly sales for books written by different groups are indistinguishable. In fiction, romance genre is dominated by female authors, while male authors are more prominent in suspense/thrillers, and in nonfiction the Biography/Memoir genre has the most female presence