A Song of Ice and Fire sold over 9 million copies in 2011 by itself and sales continued to accelerate dramatically. That same year, the HBO TV series Game of Thrones, based on the books, was launched and this resulted in a titanic explosion of sales.
As of the release of A Dance with Dragons in 2011, the series had sold well over 12 million copies worldwide. Despite increasing delays between books, the popularity of the series continued to increase. The second novel in the series, A Clash of Kings (1998), brushed the lower reaches of the bestseller lists but it only started hitting the big time with the third volume, A Storm of Swords (2000), which reached #11 on the New York Times list.īy the time A Feast for Crows was released in 2005, the popularity and profile of the series had boomed and it had sold over 5 million copies. Martin himself crediting a cross-pollination of fans of both series for helping increase his story's popularity). The first book in the series, A Game of Thrones (1996), did not sell well on release and only started doing better with the paperback edition (ironically, apparently due to a Robert Jordan cover quote, with George R.R.
Current estimates suggest sales of between 85 and 90 million.Ī Song of Ice and Fire, in contrast, was a slow but steady grower. Brandon Sanderson completed the final three books in the series, with global sales of the series surpassing 80 million by 2014 (according to Jordan's French publishers) and increasing further. As of Robert Jordan's sad passing in 2007, the series had sold 44 million copies in North America and roughly 70 million worldwide. The later novels did even better, and every book in the series from The Path of Daggers (1998) through A Memory of Light (2013) hit #1 on The New York Times bestseller list in the week of release. The first Wheel of Time novel, The Eye of the World, was published in 1990 by Tor Books and was a massive hit, shifting 40,000 copies of the first-run hardcover. Of course, with only five volumes available compared to The Wheel of Time's fourteen, A Song of Ice and Fire has had far more readers than Wheel of Time for some time (roughly 18 million to 6.5 million), but the overtaking in terms of outright sales remains a significant and impressive achievement.
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