2025 Summer Book Sales: Biographies Strong, Food Sales Drop

2025 summer book sales see biographies and autobiographies perform well. Food & Drink sales decline significantly. Murdle is a non-fiction hit. Overall market sees volume and value decrease.

Of the five classifications that sold greater than a million books in the summertime of 2024, it is only Biographies and Autobiographies that duplicates the task in 2025– with the most significant drop originating from Food & Consume, which has seen its sales visit a quarter, not assisted by strong sales of Pinch of Nom Air Fryer: Easy, Slimming Meals by Kay and Kate Allinson in 2024. Launched at the end of June last year, it offered 158,242 duplicates across the summertime– it was likewise the Allinson’s most significant book of 2025’s summertime also, however, with simply 6,183 duplicates marketed.

Non-Fiction Performance: Murdle’s Success

The only Non-Fiction title to market more than half a million duplicates in the last 2 years is GT Karber’s Murdle. It has actually gotten to a total of 549,484 duplicates, with the series total can be found in at 753,310 units, and it was still the most significant marketing puzzle title throughout June, July and August of this year, regardless of Karber’s sales going down 38.5% year-on-year. There are less titles offering in the Humour, Trivia & Puzzles group in 2025 yet typical sales throughout the Leading 50 have actually risen 14%.

Of those that have seen growth this year, the smallest is Fiction Related Things, which has sold 231,567 publications throughout the 13 weeks of summertime, a 5% rise contrasted with 2024. There are additionally boosts in Religious beliefs and Humour and Trivia & Puzzles– quantity sales are up 15.6% and 12.6% respectively, though both come from a tiny base, with the latter’s sales simply edging above 500,000 systems.

Fiction and Religious Books Growth

While the summer season of 2025 could not have actually established the world alight (the 13 weeks across June to August have actually reported a sales decrease across quantity and value in the complete market) it has, at least, been consistent, with the Trade Non-Fiction classifications additionally reporting quantity dropping faster than value.

Sales of Winn’s titles were dropping approximately 18% every week throughout June– a predicted decrease as time passed on from the release of the film– but in both weeks promptly complying with the Onlooker’s post spreading uncertainty on the honesty of Winn’s account, that decline increased to 39% every week. By the end of August, Winn’s books were offering fewer than 1,000 duplicates per week– a 30% year-on-year decline and a far cry from the positive 1,202% seen in June.

Raynor Winn’s Sales Decline Analysis

Still, those numbers at the start of the summer suffice to offer Winn two ports in the overall Top 50 and put her on top of the author position, in advance of Dalton in second place and Mel and Sawyer Robbins in 3rd. Dalton handles to slip in advance of Robbins’ 58,102 duplicates forThe Let Them Theory, thanks to a hardback edition of Raising Hare, which sold 3,828 duplicates in the 13 weeks of summertime.

According to NielsenIQ BookData’s Complete Customer Market (TCM), the Non-Fiction categories have actually seen a drop of 8.4%– nearly two times that of Fiction paperbacks– in volume terms, with value going down 4.7%, the matching of ₤ 6.3 m less undergoing the tills contrasted to the summertime of 2024. That value decline covers nearly all the ₤ 6.8 m loss that the full TCM has actually seen throughout the exact same weeks in summer 2026.

Non-Fiction Sales Drop in 2025

That surge– equal to an extra 31,935 publications– comes despite a large difference between the greatest selling title in each year. Rory Stewart’s National politics on the brink rests on top of the 2024 bio chart, with 108,227 duplicates, while the most effective that 2025 has to use is Chloe Dalton’s Raising Hare, with sales of 56,349 copies, 47.9% much less.

Of those that have actually seen growth this year, the tiniest is Fiction Associated Products, which has actually offered 231,567 books across the 13 weeks of summer season, a 5% increase contrasted with 2024. There are likewise boosts in Religion and Humour and Trivia & Puzzles– quantity sales are up 15.6% and 12.6% specifically, though both come from a tiny base, with the latter’s sales simply bordering above 500,000 systems. It has reached a total amount of 549,484 copies, with the collection total coming in at 753,310 devices, and it was still the most significant marketing problem title across June, July and August of this year, regardless of Karber’s sales dropping 38.5% year-on-year. There are fewer titles offering in the Humour, Fact & Puzzles group in 2025 however average sales throughout the Leading 50 have risen 14%.

The biggest author of the summer season in Non-Fiction (not just in biographies) greater than covers that decline, though, in spite of debate pertaining to whether their publications should be in Non-Fiction or Fiction. In the initial week of June, Raynor Winn’s sales across all her titles incorporated to 16,391 duplicates– with the majority of those coming, unsurprisingly, from both the requirement and film tie-in editions of The Salt Path adhering to the film adjustment starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.

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