The Top 10 Best Selling eBook Genres in 2024 📚

What do mystery novels, romance stories, and self-help books have in common? They are some of the hottest-selling eBook genres right now!

As digital reading continues to grow in popularity year after year, the eBook market is booming. According to Forbes, eBook revenue is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 16.9% from 2021–2025, reaching nearly $16 billion by 2025.

But when it comes to what we like to read digitally, not all eBook genres see equal success. Some categories dominate Kindle and online bookstore best-seller lists far more than others.

So exactly what types of eBooks sell like hotcakes in 2024?

• Projected global revenue in 2024: $1.35 billion
• Romance represented 29.6% of all fiction eBook sales in 2021
• 72% of romance eBook buyers are female

When it comes to eBook best sellers, romance dominates above all other genres.

👉 According to BookNet Canada, the romance genre accounted for nearly 30% of all fiction eBooks sold in 2021.