Jun 09
April 2010:
China’s Best Selling Fiction
Ranking Compiled by OpenBook
Published by China Publishing Today
(Comments by Bruce Humes)
| Rank
(sales) |
English Title/Author
(for reference only—many have no English title) |
Original Title/Author | China Publisher | Comments/links to English Sites |
| 1 | Story of Lala’s Promotion/Li Ke | 杜拉拉升职／李可 | Shaanxi Normal University Press | Why Office Politics Sells in China, and the latest on the movie adaptation, Go Lala Go! |
| 2 | Tiny Times 2.0/Guo Jingming | 小时代 2.0 虚铜时代／郭敬明 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | NPR’s interview with one of China’s youngest and highest earning authors. The hardback sold almost 40,000 copies online in a single day when launched end 2009. |
| 3 | Lost Symbol/Dan Brown | Lost Symbol/Dan Brown | People’s Literature & Art Press | |
| 4 | Picturing My Love, Honey/Anthony | 这些都是你给我的爱／安东尼 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | |
| 5 | Lala (2) huanian sishui/Li Ke | 杜拉拉 （2）华年似水／李可 | Shaanxi Normal University Press | |
| 6 | Lala (3) : My Struggle This Year/Li Ke | 我在这斗争的一年里／李可 | Shaanxi Normal University Press | |
| 7 | Snail House/Liu Liu | 蜗居／六六 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | The novel about China’s urban mortgage slaves is hot, but the TV show is banned. |
| 8 | The Autumn Boy/Li Feng | 燃烧的男孩／李枫 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | |
| 9 | Story of Lala’s Promotion (2 volumes)/Li Ke | 杜拉拉升职（全二册）／李可 | Shaanxi Normal University Press | |
| 10 | Desert Wolf—Jedi Exploration /Nanpai Sanshu | 大漠苍狼－绝地勘探／南派三叔 | Shidai Wenyi Publishing | |
| 11 | Tiny Times 1.5 (1)/Guo Jing-Ming | 小时代 1.5青木 时代（2）／郭敬明 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | |
| 12 | Tiny Times 1.0/Guo Jing-Ming | 小时代 1.0 折纸时代／郭敬明 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | |
| 13 | Twilight/Stephanie Meyer | Twilight/Stephanie Meyer | Jieli Publishing House | Could it be the footnotes? |
| 14 | Tiny Times 1.5 (2)/Guo Jing-Ming | 小时代 1.5青木 时代（2）／郭敬明 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | |
| 15 | Eclipse/Stephanie Meyer | Eclipse/Stephanie Meyer | Jieli Publishing House | Could it be the footnotes? |
| 16 | Breaking Dawn/Stephanie Meyer | Breaking Dawn/Stephanie Meyer | Jieli Publishing House | Could it be the footnotes? |
| 17 | Wolf Totem/Jiang Rong | 狼图腾／姜戎 | Out now in English from Penguin, which reportedly paid the author $100,000 for the rights. Analysis of the work in the China context and a book review. | |
| 18 | Before You Get Lost/Xiao Kaiyin | 迷津／萧凯茵 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | |
| 19 | Meet the Unknown You/Zhang Defen | 遇见未知的自己／张德芬 | Huaxia Publishing House | |
| 20 | New Moon/Stephanie Meyer | New Moon/Stephanie Meyer | Jieli Publishing House | Could it be the footnotes? |
| 21 | City of Fantasy/Guo Jing-Ming | 幻城／郭敬明 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | Melds fantasy and traditional Chinese martial arts fiction. Sold more than a million copies, despite charges of being highly derivative. But the author has been fined for plagiarism by a court in China for another work. |
| 22 | Red Crag/Luo Guangbin, Yang Yiyan | 红岩／罗广斌，杨益言 | China Youth Publishing | 1961 novel about the Chinese civil war in the 1940s. |
| 23 | Until the Last Word/Lu Lili | 直到最后一句／卢丽莉 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | |
| 24 | Hawthorn Tree Forever/Ai Mi | 山楂树之恋／艾米 | Jiangsu People’s Publishing | Rights sold to buyers in EU, Brazil and Canada. |
| 25 | Cry Me a River/Guo Jingming | 悲伤逆流成河／郭敬明 | Changjiang Literature & Art Press | |
| 26 | Striking it Rich: Diary of China’s Poorest Guy/Lao Kang | 全中国最穷的小伙子发财日记／重庆老康 | Shanghai Brilliant Publishing | Read a synopsis |
| 27 | Little Reunion/Eileen Chang | 小团员／张爱玲 | Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House | “Little Reunion, written in 1976, is the love story of a traditional Chinese girl and a married national traitor. It greatly resembles that of Eileen Chang and her first husband Hu Lancheng…” |
| 28 | Rush to the Dead Summer/Guo Jingming | 1995-2005 夏至末至／郭敬明 | Chunfeng Literature & Art Press | |
| 29 | In the Courts of the Sun/Brian d’Amato | 2012： 玛雅末日预言／Brian d’Amato | Volumes Publishing Company | |
| 30 | The Kite Runner/Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner／Khaled Hosseini | Shanghai People’s Publishing | To find out what happens when a world bestseller is translated into Chinese, read An Afghan Childhood Re-packaged for the Middle Kingdom |
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