This book now has two of his versions of movies made. Also known for his other bestselling novels like Looking for Alaska, Turtles All the Way Down, Paper Towns, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances, and more. A story about love, friendship, and a bond beyond life. The Fault in Our Stars will make you laugh and cry at the same time. Read: Mehrun: Book Review The Fault in Our Stars: Book ReviewĪ beautiful love story, with a fact of the heartbreaking and tragic ending, the plot, the heart-wrenching quotes, everything makes it imperative for all the readers to get hold of this book. They enjoyed life despite the fear of death. So eventually, Hazel met her favorite author, Peter Van Houten. Thereafter, Augustus led her to Amsterdam. One fine day she receives a mail from the author inviting her to meet him in Amsterdam. Hazel was crazy about the book and the author. As recommended by Hazel, Augustus also read the book and kind of liked it too. Also, wanted to check his feelings and opinion about the book. Hazel suggested Augustus to read her favorite book An Imperial Affliction, which she read a million times. They started understanding each other and sharing more often conversations. Also, her perspective towards life too changed. In no time, Hazel’s life was completely changed as she met Augustus. They connected and instantly liked each other.Īugustus was seventeen and had Osteosarcoma a year ago. So, Hazel met Augustus here in the heart of the church. The Support Group sat in the basement of the church, where all the young cancer survivors gathered. So, after a lot of persistence, she convinced her to join a weekly Support Group. Now that she is sixteen and her mom assumes that she has no social life and is depressed. At a very tender age of thirteen, her health problem was diagnosed.
Sales are through Dec.The Fault in Our Stars is a story about Hazel Grace, a girl suffering from thyroid cancer. The combined sales of 654,484 copies sold would place the book in the 16th spot on the juvenile list. A special edition for Barnes & Noble sold 209,356 copies while the regular hardcover sold 445,128 copies. Killing Patton, the top-selling adult nonfiction title in print and the only adult print title to sell more than one million copies last year, didn’t land in the top 50 on Amazon’s Kindle list for 2014 (as of December 30, it sat at #56).Įditor's Note: In the juvenile top 20 listing, The Blood of Olympus, book five in Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series, failed to make the top 20 because it is sold under two separate ISBNs, even though it is the same book.
Once again, the 2014 charts revealed that, with the exception of Unbroken at #10, fiction still outperforms nonfiction digitally. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, hit #4 on Amazon’s list (the book came in at #5 on the adult fiction print list). Turning to digital, Green also topped Amazon’s Kindle bestseller list, followed by Gone Girl at #2. The book, first published in 2012, was adapted into a film by Angelina Jolie and premiered on Christmas Day. Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken hit #3 on the adult nonfiction list, selling more than 660,000 copies. The August film adaptation of Gayle Forman’s young adult novel If I Stay sent the book up the bestseller list throughout the year-it netted nearly 750,000 copies in 2014 (the hardcover, released in April 2009, sold roughly 40,000 copies in its first year on sale, according to Nielsen). The first film based on Roth’s series, Divergent, hit theaters in March (the big-screen version of Insurgent will open in March, and the final book, Allegiant, will be split into two subsequent films).įrozen, a Golden Book by Victoria Saxon based on the Disney sensation of the same name (the highest-grossing animated film of all time), sold more than 780,000 copies, hitting #10 on the overall list and was in eighth place on the juvenile list, where it was joined by four other Frozen books. Gillian Flynn’s 2012 phenomenon Gone Girl, adapted into a film released in October, took the #1 spot on the adult fiction list (the movie-tie in claimed the #4 spot), and the #7 spot on the overall bestseller list. In addition to The Fault in Our Stars, other books with big-screen adaptations thrived in 2014.
The book also topped the adult nonfiction list, followed by Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling, which moved more than 700,000 copies in the year. The book, released September 23, sold 1.19 million copies, landing at #5 on the list. In fact, per Nielsen, the only adult title to sell more than one million print copies last year was Killing Patton, the fourth book in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s Killing series.