Where the Crawdads Sing has sold FOUR MILLION COPIES in the US (hardback, e-book, and audio).
Earlier this year, we were celebrating one million sold and now we are already up to four million!! It's a Great Day for Crawdads!!!! Thank you!
Today, Where the Crawdads Sing is celebrating one year on the New York Times Bestseller List!
Thank you everybody. I’m leaving again on book tour and am so grateful to everyone and to the friends I’ve made along the way.
Today is the first anniversary of Where the Crawdads Sing. I am grateful to my agent for finding Putnam (the best and most fun publishers), who launched Crawdads with a fabulous tour last August.
Only two weeks later, Reese Witherspoon chose my novel as her September Book; two weeks after that it landed on the NYT Bestseller List and is still there.
Book sellers, giant ones and tiny ones, recommended Crawdads. And then came my readers. I treasure the connection I feel with you all. You have filled my life.
Sometime along the way, Reese announced that she’s producing the movie! CBS Sunday Morning featured the story. Then Crawdads reached #1. What a year!
I cannot even express my gratitude, but I’ll try with a simple ‘thank you!’
♥️ Delia
“Delia Owens’s Where the Crawdads Sing surpassed one million print copies sold in 2019, making it the feel-good publishing story of the year. The debut novel … is the rare adult fiction novel to sell more than one million print copies in a year. ”
Publishers Weekly published the news that Crawdads has passed another landmark by selling one million hardcover copies! Total sales including e-books and audio are over three million. Thank you for all your support and recommendations!
Jim Milliot and Rachel Deahl, “‘Crawdads’ Tops One Million Print Sales In 2019,” Publishers Weekly, Jul 26, 2019.
I’m running out of ways to say it but still, I’m so excited to share that Where the Crawdads Sing continues to top the national bestsellers lists!
Crawdads has been on the New York Times Bestsellers List for 44 weeks! It’s astonishing and thanks to all of you. On the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction list, it is now in the #2 slot, down from #1 just last week, and on the Hard Cover Fiction list, it remains at #1 — for a total of 23 weeks at #1!
On Amazon’s Most Sold & Most Read Books of the Week charts, Crawdads remains number 1, with 45 weeks on the list.
And at IndieBound’s Indie Bestseller Lists, based on sales in hundreds of our wonderful independent bookstores nationwide, Crawdads is still at #1.
Thank you all so much for your support!
“One sentence from Toni Morrison can inspire a lifetime of writing.”
"By the Book: What Does the Author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Think You Should Read?,” The New York Times, July 11, 2019.
“How has a small literary novel flourished while hyped books by big-name authors have flashed on and off the list? … It’s now been rated over 125,000 times on Goodreads and has a 5-star rating on Amazon, where it’s been reviewed more than 7,400 times.”
✨ Number 1 again on the NYT Bestseller List! ✨ Please check out this article in the The New York Times Book Review section yesterday!
While I was in LA, planning the movie adaptation for Where the Crawdads Sing, Reese made these two short videos. She held up her phone as we were walking out of the restaurant onto the terrace and she and I said a few words.
Reese has done so much for women writers! I am grateful to her and all of you.
I have such exciting news to share! Where the Crawdads Sing is again Number 1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List — that is 27 weeks on the list and week 4 at #1.
Crawdads is also the number 1 “most sold” and “most read” book on Amazon and has been on Amazon’s list for 26 weeks running!
It's again at #1 on IndieBound’s bestseller list, that is, best sellers in independent book stores across the US.
And this week, Crawdads climbs to the top of USA Today’s Best Selling Books list, with 28 weeks on the list.
I'm so grateful for all your support.
CBS News, March 17, 2019, 10:11 AM
“It’s almost in Canada, with a view of Montana. That’s how remote this northern corner of Idaho really is, worlds away from almost everything, except nature. For writer Delia Owens, it’s heaven. Wildlife is her church, vast isolation her muse.
Does she get lonely out here? “I do. I get so lonely sometimes I feel like I can’t breathe.”
”But you like a part of that though, right?” asked correspondent Lee Cowan.
”I do, I do. And I decided to write a book about it.”
That book, “Where the Crawdads Sing,” has become a phenomenon. At a recent book fair in Savannah, Georgia, she had readers lined up around the block just to meet her.”
Did you catch the CBS Sunday Morning show segment on Where the Crawdads Sing’? Lee Cowan is the correspondent and we explored some of Kya’s marsh during the filming. If you missed it, you can watch it on the CBS News website.