Fantasy Trends (January 19, 2025)

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Week in Summary

This week there were 17 new books in the Top 100.View them on Amazon.

The median (50th-ranked) book was at Best Sellers Rank 326, increased less than 5% from last week. Half the books in the Top 100 were between ranks 152 and 472.

  • There were 6 standalone books, and 94 books which were in 50 unique series.
  • There were 75 books in KU, and 25 wide.
  • There were 28 books published by an imprint of a major traditional publisher, and 72 books estimated to be independent or self-published.

Trending topic tags this week were SupernaturalTheme (3), ShifterCharacter (3), Alpha MaleCharacter (2) and DemonCharacter (2).See the whole list of topics.

Frequent words in titles this week were king(8), fantasy(6), dark(5) and wolf(4). See the whole list.

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Sales Rank Distribution


Covers


Frequent words in blurbs this week were new(36), fantasy(36), life(30) and world(30). See the whole list.

Blurbs had a median of 13 sentences across 7 paragraphs. Text analysis of the blurbs in the Top 100 suggests:

  • 71 were written in third-person
  • 28 were written in first-person
  • 2 of the first-person blurbs had more than one point of view

Setting vs Character in Blurbs

In this plot, each dot is a blurb. The percentages show how much of each blurb is about characters, and how much is about setting and events. Neither is better than the other, but this plot shows us whether blurbs in the Top 100 are mostly about one or the other, or a mixture.