![]() ![]() Writers of literary fiction, perhaps unsurprisingly, are notable by their absence in a list dominated by crime, romance, and – since the advent of Potter – fantasy fiction for young readers which has crossover appeal to the adult market.įorbes wrote: "If you're not writing in a genre with mass commercial appeal, you can pretty much forget about making the list. Steel and King have been fixtures of the list since Steel's Going Home and King's Carrie first came out 40 years ago. James's earnings from her erotic novel, which seduced a vast readership with its combination of breathless romance and sado-masochism, saw her leapfrog top-earning stalwarts Danielle Steel and Stephen King. ![]() ![]() JK Rowling's ranking – at number 15, with earnings of £13m – is a steep comedown since the heyday of Harry Potter sales in 2008, when she topped the highest-earners list with sales of £170m, more than the combined annual earnings of the nine other authors on the list that year. ![]()
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