The Paper's reporter Gao Dan
More than halfway through the year, recently, when the list of good books of the year was released. Relying on the purchase records and reading reviews of readers in 2022, the Dangdang Good Book List selects 6 lists from the three major creative categories of fiction, non-fiction and children's books, and perspectives the direction of the public reading tide in the first half of the year.
From the overall trend of the list, it can be found that book publishing is also chasing hot spots, and phenomenal self-media big Vs have launched their own new books; Classics are also timeless; Film and television dramas interact frequently with book publishing. On the track of children's book publishing, China's original children's books continue to cultivate in traditional Chinese studies, history and culture, and the imported editions of popular science books are also loved by parents.
When dang released six lists, the "Fiction Bestseller List", published from 2005, "Distant Savior" was reprinted several times, and it rode the dust in the fiction list. The European and American novels "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Little Prince" occupy two seats. In recent years, the theme of suspense and reasoning has become hot, and Keigo Higashino's "White Night" and "Relief Grocery Store" have also endured.
First published in early 2019, Mai Jia's "Life Sea Sea" revolves around a colonel with many mysteries on his body, using the village as a performance stage, telling the life entanglements of many villagers and the colonel, depicting the colonel's life through the times. This year is the big year of "Three-Body", the film and television drama adapted from "Three-Body" is about to be broadcast, and various "Three-Body" cultural immersion experience halls have also landed, which will reverse the "Three-Body" book fever. Lin Yihan's masterpiece, "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise", published in 2017, continues to illuminate reality with novels, and its practical significance makes this text still have countless echoes to this day.
Yu Hua's "Wencheng" is the latest work on the list, published in 2021, telling the story of Lin Xiangfu, a young man in the north, and Ji Xiaomei, a woman from the south, who met and fell in love in the turbulent years of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, but Xiaomei suddenly left after giving birth to a daughter, and there was no news, Lin Xiangfu carried his daughter all the way south to find the "Wencheng" where his wife Xiaomei was located.
Fictional best-seller list
1. Distant Savior Writers Press
2. New Classics of Life and Sea / Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
3. Three-body Sichuan Science Fiction World/Chongqing Publishing House
4. Kill a mockingbird translated by Translation Forest Publishing House
5. White Night Travel New Classics /South China Sea Published
6. Little Prince Guomai/Tianjin People's Publishing House
7. Wencheng New Classics / Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
8. Relief Grocery Store New Classic/Nanhai Publishing Company
9. Camellia Stationery Shop Boji Tianjuan / Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
10. Fang Siqi's first love paradise, Motie/Beijing United Publishing Company
In the list of fictional new books, Mo Yan's two works are at the beginning and end of the list, namely the long novel "Life and Death Fatigue" and the collection of 18 short stories "Mo Yan's Strange and Strange Stories". Using comics to talk about literature and history well is a tried-and-true routine of mass publishing, and Fei Zhi's "If History Is a Group of Meows 10 Song Liao Jinxia Chapters" and Dai Jianye's "Comics Speak New Language" continue to be exported in this path that is widely welcomed by the public.
Located in the top 3 of the list, "Wangjiangnan", is the latest novel of Mao Dun Literature Award winner Wang Xufeng, which was at the top of the Dangdang book best-seller list on the first day of listing in March this year, and was printed after entering the pre-sale state on the same day. Japanese writers Keigo Higashino and Atsushi Shimomura each have a suspense novel on the list; Two other foreign works, "High Energy Warning: Neil Gaiman's Back Chill Short Story Collection" and "Fish Without Feet", also made the list, and the styles of these two works are very different: the former is a dark fairy tale that combines unique styles and imaginations such as horror and fantasy, and the latter is a clean, cold and deep "Nordic style".
Fictional new book list
1. Life and death fatigue Reader/Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
2, if the history is a group of meows 10 Song Liao Jinxia article Manyou Culture / Guangdong Tourism Publishing House
3. Wangjiangnan Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
4. Qing: Spend a long time with Anthony5 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
5, fish do not have feet to grind iron / Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House
6. Transparent Spiral New Classic/South Sea Publishing Company
7. The Association of Victims of the Same Name /Wenhui Publishing House
8. Dai Jianye Comics Speaks New Language Guomai/Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
9. High-energy warning: Neil Gaiman's back chill short story collection Reader/ Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
10. Mo Yan's Strange and Strange Story Collection Reader/Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
Serious literature can become interesting, and rigorous laws can penetrate the hearts of the people. Details of the Rule of Law, which topped the nonfiction list, was also ranked No. 1 on the Dangdang Law bestseller list. This collection of Luo Xiang's legal essays interprets hot cases and speculates on the essence of the rule of law. The book no. 2 on the list once again confirms the unshakable position of Su Dongpo in the hearts of readers, and the blessing of Lin Yutang also allows readers to have more trust in the content of "The Biography of Su Dongpo"; The third-ranked "Inside: The Chinese Government and Economic Development" is a new work by Lan Xiaohuan, an associate professor at the School of Economics at Fudan University, which tells the story of the Chinese economy, but its protagonist is neither a micro-price mechanism nor a macro-economic cycle, but a government and policy. Because in our country, the government not only influences the distribution of the "cake", but also participates in the production of the "cake".
Ji Xianlin's two literary essays" "Time never speaks, but answers all questions" and "Peace of Mind is Home" was selected for the list because of the attractive title to the public, and in terms of philosophy/religion books, Plato's "Republic" is one of the masterpieces of the Xiaohan translation series cooperated by Dangdang and the Commercial Press, and "The Republic" has been reprinted five times since its listing in June 2020, and the number of copies per printing is about 20,000 copies.
Non-fiction best-seller list
1. Details of the rule of law Guomai/Yunnan People's Publishing House
2. Su Dongpo Biography Collection Of Heavenly Scrolls / Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
3. Staying in the Matter: The Chinese Government and Economic Development Shanghai People's Publishing House
4. Positive discipline Tianluo Books/Beijing United Publishing Company
5. The second flower blossoms Hainan Publishing House
6. Time is never silent, but it answers all the questions of Zitu/Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House
7. Peace of mind is the homecoming went to went to the world/ Gu Wuxuan Publishing House
8. The most gentle upbringing CITIC Publishing House
9. Cafe at the end of the world Guomai/Tianjin People's Publishing House
10. The Commercial Press of the Republic of China
In the top 10 of the non-fiction new book list, half of the seats are occupied by investment and financial management books. Two psychology books were on the list, one for art, one for literature and one for history. Looking at the overall list, self-media, big V, and under the support of users, have entered book publishing. For example, "The History of Chinese Art" in which readers and art heads unexpectedly cooperate with self-media; Produced "Variable 4: The Tengnuo of a Great Power" and "Ripe Economy: Xiangshuai Wealth Report 3"; "The Economics of The Cognitive World" curated by Mo Tie and the tens of millions of financial big V Zhen Dahu.
As the only historical book on the list, "History of the Southern Ming Dynasty" was first published in 2003 and has been published for nearly 20 years, and the author is Gu Cheng, a chinese researcher of Ming history. After the copyright of the book belonged to readers, Dangdang cooperated with it to launch a paperback version in the early part of World Book Day, achieving a record of 30,000 copies sold. Psychology is popular, "Raise Your Inner Child" and "Stop Your Inner War" are one of the most concerned psychology books in the first half of the year, and the perspectives of two different experts reveal the same truth: it is better to seek outward than to explore inward.
List of new non-fiction books
1. Big Talk About Chinese Art History Reader/Hainan Publishing House
2. Variable 4: The Vacating of Great Powers Get Books/Nova Press
3. Running a business and running a life, Chinese Translation Publishing House
4. Economics of Cognitive World Grinding Iron/Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
5. Raise your inner child Fruit Wheat / Ten Thousand Volumes Publishing Company
6. History of the Southern Ming Dynasty Reader/Beijing Daily Publishing House
7. Mature Economy: Xiangshuai Wealth Report 3 Get Books/Nova Press
8. Stop Your Inner War Era Guanghua/Democracy and Construction Press
9. Teacher Dai Gaoneng Tang Poetry Class Grinding Iron / Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd
10. Principle 2: Responding to the Changing World Order CITIC Publishing House
From the children's book best-seller list, it can still be found that the original Chinese children's books on the list are known for their children's literature category. In line with Chinese cultural traditions, the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which tells 5,000 years of history and mythological stories, as well as original Chinese graded books, are still the original books that parents buy the most for their children. And to break the children's conventional thinking, fully tap the imagination, cultivate the sense of innovation of picture books, popular science encyclopedia, Chinese parents still prefer foreign imported books.
Children's book bestseller list
1. Chinese History for Children Step Printing Culture/New World Publishing House
2. Mr. Broccoli's barber shop Tianyu Beidou/Dolphin Publishing House
3. DK Museum Encyclopedia of Science Popularization Press
4. The Classic of Mountains and Seas That Children Can Read and Understand, Blue Bird Children's Book/Beijing Institute of Technology Press
5. 100-storey house series 100-storey children's bookstore / Beijing Science and Technology Publishing House
6. Magical School Bus Bridge Book Edition Dandelion Children's Bookstore / Guizhou People's Publishing House
7. Our Body Fun Fun /Future Press
8, Pete Cat 3 ~ 6 years old good character development book Reader / Wenhui Publishing House
9. Teenagers read history Qingdao Publishing House
10. Little Sheep On the Mountain Children's Graded Chinese Graded Reading Materials Grade 1 Children's Fun /People's Post and Telecommunications Publishing House
In the list of new children's books, "Little Chicken Ball Ball Touch Toy Book" stood out among many children's books and won the top spot in the list of new children's books in the middle of the year. In terms of popular science books, when the aerospace industry entered the "space station era", the "Space Station Panorama Stereoscopic Book: Stars As Companions and Good Homecoming" launched by the Chemical Industry Press is in line with market hotspots. Several other original children's books on the list are examples of telling Chinese stories to children, such as "Greater China Treasure Hunt Series" and "Uncle Kai's Water Margin", which tells four famous books. Chinese general education, the cultivation of children's sense of financial and business has also attracted attention. "Puppy Money Money" and "Economic Driving" are on the list.
Children's Book New Book List
1. Chicken Ball Touch Toy Book Dolphin Media/Nova Press
2. Space Station Panorama Stereoscopic Book: Stars As Companions return home Chemical Industry Press
3. Greater China Treasure Hunt Series 21st Century Press
4. Puppy Money (set of 2 volumes) CITIC Publishing House
5. Rice Circle Comic Idioms (Series 2) Sichuan Children's Publishing House
6. Economics to Millais Children's Books/Electronic Industry Press
7. Mr. Strange Miss Miao, a new collection of stories, Chemical Industry Press
8. Uncle Kai Water Margin Boji Tianjuan / Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
9. Blue Parrot Grubie Science Story Wentong Tianxia/Water Conservancy and Hydropower Publishing House
10. Hand Axe Boy Series Relay Press
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