Part of our BEA coverage every year is to look back at the “Buzz Books” selection from the prior year to see how they fared in the marketplace. That’s more complicated now that frontlist titles, particularly fiction, are selling so strongly in ebook editions. But the print sales numbers from Nielsen BookScan still tell a pretty clear story on their own. Last year’s general Buzz panel featured at least two books that were recognized major works of the year–Emma Donoghue’s multiple-award-winning novel (which ranked No. 2 on our own Best of the Best of 2010 Fiction list), and Siddhartha Mukherjee’s […]
