Led 由 Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, 吸血鬼 devoured USA TODAY's Best-Selling 图书 列表 in 2009.
For the 秒 年 in a row, Meyer swept the 最佳, 返回页首 four spots. No other 作者 — not even J. K. Rowling— has done that in the list's 16-year history.
Meyer's coattails pulled 16 other vampire titles onto the 列表 of the year's 100 most 流行的 books.
"Meyer had an 不可思议的 impact," says Michael Norris, 图书 analyst for Simba Information, a market-research firm. He wonders what publishers will do when what he calls " 'the vampire industrial average' falls. Every cycle has an end."
But for now, Meyer — who has also benefited from Twilight movie adaptations, with 更多 to come — has turned "the YA (young adult) category into the PG-13 of books," he says. "She's not just read 由 tweens and teens, but 由 a lot of 30-year-old women."
No matter who's 阅读 them, 图书 for kids and teens accounted for 29% of sales tracked in 2009 — the highest percentage in the list's history, up from 28% in 2008 and 22% in 2007.
