Teen & Young Adult Month in Summary
This month there were 145 new books in the bestselling 600 books.View them on Amazon.
The median (50th-ranked) book was at Best Sellers Rank 49351, decreased between 20 and 25% from last month. Half the books in the bestselling 600 were between ranks 15741 and 128429.
- There were 107 standalone books, and 293 books which were in 203 unique series.
- There were 197 books in KU, and 203 wide.
- There were 90 books published by an imprint of a major traditional publisher, and 310 books estimated to be independent or self-published.
Trending topic tags this week were AristocracyCharacter (▼13), DragonCharacter (▼10), MagicTheme (▼9) and School/AcademySetting (▲8).See the whole list of topics.
Frequent words in titles this week were fantasy(24), litrpg(23), adventure(22) and life(16). See the whole list.
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Sales Rank Distribution
- 62 books are up to 30 days old. View them on Amazon.
- 197 books are between 1 month and 6 months old. View them on Amazon.
- 140 books are over 6 months old. View them on Amazon.
Price Breakdown
Covers
Trending in Blurbs
Frequent words in blurbs this month were world(149), new(140), life(127) and year(117). See the whole list.
Blurbs had a median of 11 sentences across 5 paragraphs. Text analysis of the blurbs in the Top 100 suggests:
- 368 were written in third-person
- 25 were written in first-person
- 0 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.
