![]() A total of 4,446 YA books have graced the lists.Remember that there are three years’ of data that only include half of the lists, so these numbers reflect the available data and not the titles which are missing. The NYT YA Bestseller List By The Numbers Total Number of Books on the New York Times YA Bestseller List The final data used is December 25, 2022. The data used begins December 6, 2012, the first day of a separate YA list. I welcome you to do your own work and share your findings if something doesn’t sit right with you. That said, there will be mistakes, and there will be categorization choices you don’t agree with. I’ve been blogging about YA books and the YA book world for over 15 years, and my knowledge of this category is broad and deep. The work of compiling, sorting, and categorizing the books on ten years’ worth of lists took a lot of time, and there was certainly an element of subjectivity involved. This helped open up the lists to more titles and more accurately reflected what was selling and how. This change made sense, as paperback titles dominated the bestseller list it was much easier and cheaper to sell boatloads of copies of titles in paperback than in hardcover. Now, rather than a single list that captured sales of all formats of a book, the lists would separate out the Young Adult Bestsellers in paperback and hardcover ebook sales were separated out and series books would appear on a separate list that also included middle grade titles. August 2015 marked the biggest shift since the lists development. ![]() Like other NYT Bestseller lists, the Young Adult lists have evolved over their ten years in existence. The New York Times Best Seller list for Young Adults began by including sales totals that included hardcover, paperback, and ebooks. ![]() This change made it possible to better differentiate among the books for young readers - middle grade and young adult - and it opened up the possibility for more titles within each category to hit the list. At that time, young adult books were merged with other chapter books, creating a list that was a mix of young adult and middle grade titles. Prior to December 6, 2012, there was no standalone New York Times Best Seller list for young adult novels. Follow her on Instagram All posts by Kelly Jensen Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED.
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