George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949): 50,000 copies (UK) Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920): 41,075 copiesĭavid Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996): 44,000 copies Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876): 24,000 copies Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925): 21,000 copies But if you’re a writer who knows your own book’s numbers, and you’re brave, feel free to add to the list in the comments section.Ĭharlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846): 2 copies
Obviously, most of the numbers are approximate (it’s pretty clear when they’re not), and of course I haven’t mentioned every book on on the spectrum (because that would just be. (I mean, just look at Joyce.) So to that end, I’ve hunted around to find out how many copies the below books sold in the twelve months following their publications. While the numbers a book puts up during its first year in the world aren’t everything, they can be fascinating-especially when they’re a lot lower (or higher) than you’d think. Some of the classics we know and love today were instant bestsellers when they were originally published-and some were huge flops. Book publishing can be a tricky-and fickle-thing.
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