Best-Selling Book Genres Worldwide 2024
About This Dataset
Best-Selling Book Genres Worldwide 2024
Book genres ranked by global sales revenue in 2024 according to Publishing Perspectives and Statista market data. Romance fiction consistently generates the highest revenues of any adult fiction genre globally, followed by crime and thriller, which together dominate bestseller charts across most major English-language markets.
Analysis
Romance Fiction (1.44), Crime & Thriller (1.12) and Science Fiction / Fantasy (0.98) take the top three in Global Revenue (Billion USD) in 2024. No single entity dominates: the leader, Romance Fiction, holds 20.7% of the combined total of all 8. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 0.98 down to 0.41.
Source:
Statista
Key Findings
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Romance Fiction leads in Global Revenue (Billion USD) with 1.44 in 2024.
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Average Global Revenue (Billion USD) in 2024: 0.871 · median: 0.84.
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Gap in 2024: Romance Fiction is 3.5× larger than Horror.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Statista
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2024 · 8 observations
- Measure
- Global Revenue (Billion USD)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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