To find these categories, we ran reports in SalesData for all BISAC subjects and compared their growth between 20. Some notes on our methodology: The subjects we explore are not comprehensive but are a group of sub-genres where we found notable year-over-year growth. Pacat ( Prince's Gambit) in the LGBT and LGBT / Gay categories Fern Michaels ( Point Blank and Fast and Loose) in Action & Adventure Susanna Kearsley ( A Desperate Fortune and The Firebird) in Time Travel Marissa Campbell ( Avelynn) in Historical / Viking and Stephanie Laurens ( The Tempting of Thomas Carrick and A Match for Marcus Cynster) and Hannah Howell ( Highland Guard and Beauty and the Beast) in Historical / Scottish. Some sub-genres, especially smaller ones, experience sales spikes when certain authors release books, for example: C. The ones with the largest percent change decreases include Time Travel, Erotica, Historical / General, New Adult, and Paranormal / General.

Meanwhile, many Romance sub-genres declined between 20. One of the smallest Romance sub-categories in terms of unit sales, LGBT / Lesbian, experienced the second largest sales increase from 2013 to 2017 of 29,700%. The five sub-genres with the highest unit sales in 2017 were Contemporary, Suspense, Historical, General Romance, and Western. From 2013 to 2017, the biggest changes have been in the sub-genres Clean & Wholesome, LGBT / Lesbian, Holiday, Romantic Comedy, Multicultural & Interracial, Western, Military, and History / Medieval, with some change in a few others. The Romance BISAC subject category is a big one, comprising 38 sub-genres, so it was both difficult and interesting to narrow down which ones we'd take a closer look at. While we examined the top-level Romance subject category in our 2017 Deep Dive study and continue to detail Romance trends our annual The Canadian Book Market report , this time we're diving even deeper to explore Romance sub-genres as part of our series on the granular subjects that have shown notable increases between 20. In 2017, Romance sales made up 3.8% of all print books sold in Canada and a whopping 13.5% of all Fiction sales (as tracked by BNC SalesData for the English-language trade market).īut are there any Romance sub-genres that performed even better than that?

We all know that Romance sells well - really well.

Avelynn by Marissa Campbell