【2023 Archives】

Not even our reading habits were safe from 2017.

On Tuesday023 Archives Amazon Charts, Amazon's book ranking team, released data highlighting the top books and reading trends of 2017 ... and, well, the results are truly reflective of the crazy-ass year we just lived through.

SEE ALSO: Amazon just revealed the most popular Kindle books of all time

Topping the list for most read fiction is Margaret Atwood's uncannily prescient dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, followed by Stephen King's tale of killer clowns It. Both novels had breakout adaptations this year after Hulu transformed Handmaidsinto an Emmy-winning television series and Andrés Muschietti brought Itback to the big screen in September.

Meanwhile the most read nonfiction book of the year is a title perhaps we could all have used in 2017: The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ckby Mark Manson. Also on the list of top nonfiction is Minnesota Sen. Al Franken's memoir Al Franken, Giant of the Senate.Franken recently resigned from the Senate after multiple sexual harassment allegations.

In addition to revealing info like most read fiction and most read nonfiction of the year, Amazon also shared more granular reading data, like which books readers consumed faster on Kindle and Audible compared to others titles, the most listened to book on Alexa, and the most highlighted books on Kindle throughout the year.

Check out some highlights of Amazon's 2017 top reading trends below, and you can see Amazon Chart's full year in review here.

Top 10 Most Read Fiction:

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1. The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

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2. It

by Stephen King

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3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J.K. Rowling

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4. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)

by George R.R. Martin

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5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J.K. Rowling

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6. Beneath a Scarlet Sky

by Mark Sullivan

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7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J.K. Rowling

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8. A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles

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9. Origin

by Dan Brown

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10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J.K. Rowling

Top 10 Most Read Non-Fiction

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1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

by Mark Manson

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2. Hillbilly Elegy

by J.D. Vance

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3. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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4. Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow

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5. Born A Crime

by Trevor Noah

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6. The 5 Second Rule

by Mel Robbins

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7. How To Win Friends & Influence People

Dale Carnegie

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8. Al Franken: Giant of the Senate

by Al Franken

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9. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen R. Covey

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10. I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

by Kevin Hart

Top 5 Most Wished For

1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckby Mark Manson

2. Hillbilly Elegyby J.D. Vance

3. The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood

4. Astrophysics for People in a Hurryby Neil deGrasse Tyson

5. Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari

Most Listened to on Alexa

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneby J.K. Rowling

Top 5 Unputdownable

(The Kindle and Audible books readers read faster than comparable titles)

1. Oathbringerby Brandon Sanderson

2. End Gameby David Baldacci

3. Artemisby Andy Weir

4. Hardcore Twenty-Fourby Janet Evanovich

5. The Midnight Lineby Lee Child

Top 5 All Ears

(The books people listened to more than read)

1. The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courageby Mel Robbins

2. I Can't Make This Upby Kevin Hart

3. How To Win Friends and Influence Peopleby Dale Carnegie

4. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Businessby Charles Duhigg

5. The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ckby Mark Manson

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