U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a Bible during a photo opportunity in front of St. John's Episcopal Church June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
The best selling book of the year? The #Bible
The hit book of 2025 was a genre piece with a ravenous fandom that’s deeply invested in the intersecting storylines of a sprawling multi-generational sword and sandal epic. It’s called The Bible, and it moved 19 million copies last year — a smash-hit sales figure that reinvigorates the I.P. at hand and up 12 percent over 2024, doubling unit sales of 2019. Though the material has historically been somewhat polarizing, all evidence so far demonstrates that the franchise has serious legs overseas, with the U.K. numbers coming in boffo at sales 134 percent higher than 2008.
Cathy Lynn Grossman, Publishers Weekly
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