2013 Book Sales Rankings: The top picks for the year are "The Man Called Pirate" and "Eternal Zero"

2013.12.16 Press Releases
Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. Entertainment Business Division

-For the first time in four years since 2009, novels occupy the top three overall book categories-

The Entertainment Business Division of Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd., which operates TSUTAYA (740 stores selling books), the number one bookstore chain in Japan in terms of sales, nationwide, will compile and analyze the results as a business division and announce them by category as the TSUTAYA annual rankings.

The top-ranked works in both the general book category and the paperback category were by Naoki Hyakuta. In the overall book rankings, novels by Haruki Murakami, who made waves with his new work Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, took the top three spots for the first time in four years since the first installment of his 1Q84 series was released in 2009, making this a great year for novels.

Books Overall Ranking

(Data collected from January 1 to November 30, 2013)

Ranking/Title/Author
1st place: The Man Called Pirate *Naoki Hyakuta
2nd Place: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
3rd Place: Hotel Royal, Sakuragi Shino
4th place: 47 tips to avoid being killed by a doctor, by Makoto Kondo
5th place: The Revenge of the Lost Generation by Jun Ikeido
6th place: 90% of communication is how you communicate - Keiichi Sasaki
7th place: 99% of people don't know the secrets of only 1% of leaders - Hidetaro Kono
8th place: Ophthalmologist-designed! Home-based method to restore eyesight by Chihiro Motobu
9. When the Curtain of Prayer Falls by Keigo Higashino
10th place: What is maturity for humans? Ayako Sono

Paperback General Ranking

(Data collected from January 1 to November 30, 2012)

Title Author
1st Place: Eternal Zero - Naoki Hyakuta
2nd Place: We Joined the Bank During the Bubble Era, by Jun Ikeido
3rd Place: We are the Flower Bubble Generation, Jun Ikeido
4th place Midsummer Equation by Keigo Higashino
5th place: Her in the Sunshine, Osamu Koshigaya
6th place Monster Naoki Hyakuta
7th place Maria Beetle Kotaro Isaka
8th place Library Wars Library Wars Series 1 Hiro Arikawa
9th place: Kirishima, I'm Quitting the Club - Ryo Asai
10th place: Murderous Intent of Imitation by Makoto Nakamachi

*Books with the same title, such as two volumes, are omitted from the ranking, and the ranking is created based on the order of the first volume.

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2013 Book Sales Rankings: The top picks for the year are "The Man Called Pirate" and "Eternal Zero"

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