From Stephen King to Victor Pelevin: the 20 most published authors in Russia are named

The Russian Book Chamber reported on the results of 2022 and summarized statistics on the most published authors in fiction. The list includes 20 names:

1. Stephen King (1.3 million copies);
2. Fyodor Dostoevsky (916,2 thousand);
3. Agatha Christie (848 thousand);
4. Erich Maria Remarque (718 thousand);
5. George Orwell (693.5 thousand);
6. Daria Dontsova (543,5 thousand);
7. Jane Austen (509 thousand);
8. Mikhail Bulgakov (505.2 thousand);
9. Nora Sakavich (500 thousand);
10. Louise Mae Olcott (468.5 thousand);
11. Leo Tolstoy (448.3 thousand);
12. Tatiana Vitalievna Ustinova (443 thousand);
13. Jack London (426.8 thousand);
14. Ray Bradbury (409 thousand);
15. Katerina Silvanova (387 thousand);
16. Oscar Wilde (375.7 thousand);
17. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (358.6 thousand);
18. Viktor Olegovich Pelevin (356 thousand);
19. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (344.2 thousand);
20. Leah Arden (319 thousand).

Among the authors of children's books, the most published were Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (898.7 thousand copies), Holly Webb (753 thousand) and J.K. Rowling (752 thousand). Next come: Uleva, Pushkin, Uspensky, Volkov, Nosov, Lindgren and others.

In total, 108 thousand books and brochures were published in Russia in 2022, which is 0.3% less than a year earlier. The total circulation increased by 0.8% to 392.4 million copies, of which books make up 310.3 million.