For the week ending June 17, Circana BookScan’s top 10 bestseller list was comprised entirely of adult fiction, with six romance titles. Romance was also the leading category in young adult. Top adult titles include The Five-Star Weekend (Hachette) by Elin Hilderbrand; Lessons in Chemistry (PRH) by Bonnie Garmus; Happy Place (PRH) by Emily Henry; Icebreaker (Simon & Schuster) by Hannah Grace, mentioned in our April 12 issue; and Twisted Love by Ana Huang (Sourcebooks), mentioned in our May 24 issue—along with three Colleen Hoover titles.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
