OpenBook shares their insight into the top books on their fiction, nonfiction, and children’s bestseller lists from November, plus a look at what international authors are selling well in China.
Association of American Publishers Announces This Month’s Revenue Report
The Association of American Publishers released October 2025 StatShot report noting revenue is up 6.7% over October 2024 and 0.4% so far this year.
China Bestsellers: Nobel Prize Boost, Aspirational Nonfiction, and Children’s Classics
Beijing’s OpenBook shares their insight into the top books on their international, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s bestseller lists.
Classicist Mary Beard to Chair Judging Panel for the UK’s Booker Prize
Classicist Mary Beard will chair the judging panel for UK’s Booker Prizes.
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2026 Longlist
International Prize for Arabic Fiction announces 2026 longlist featuring writers from ten different countries, including Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Iraq, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.
The 25th Bollinger Prize in the UK Awards Two Prizes This Year
The UK’s Bollinger Prize, celebrating its 25th anniversary, awarded the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction to Rosanna Pike and the Vintage Bollinger Prize to Marina Lewycka.
China Bestsellers: Energies Around Shanghai’s Book Fair
As the annual China Shanghai International Book Fair season arrived, Beijing’s OpenBook research group had new observations to mention.
Endangered, Indigenous Languages Featured at Shanghai’s Fair
The dogged problem of endangered and Indigenous languages is a major one in children’s books.
UK: Booker Prize Names David Szalay Its 2025 Winner
David Szalay becomes the first Hungarian-British writer to win the Booker Prize for Fiction, having been shortlisted once before.
China Bestsellers: Flashes of New Titles in the Slow Season
Those school-driven sales of the “classics” on the mainland’s reading lists have room for a couple of newer works this season.