2024 China’s Global Bestseller Trends

Insights from Alicia Liu at The Bookseller’s FutureBook Conference

At The Bookseller’s #FutureBook conference, Singing Grass founder and CEO Alicia Liu shared fresh insights into China’s dynamic bestseller trends.

What’s Hot in China:

Fiction charts are led by Chinese authors, while enduring international titles like One Hundred Years of Solitude continue to resonate—selling over 10 million copies in the past decade.

In non-fiction, self-help dominates, and feminist works like A Room of One’s Own are gaining traction, selling 140,000 copies in just two months this year.

Chinese authors are also making global waves

Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem is now a Netflix phenomenon, and literary icon Liu Zhenyun is connecting with Gen Z audiences through comedy and viral clips—catch him at London Book Fair in March 2025.

Top trends to watch?

Gen Z embracing the classics, niche titles going mainstream, and a new wave of Chinese authors poised for international success.

Curious to learn more? Reach out to Alicia and the Singing Grass team!