A new guide for teachers has reached the top of the bestseller list just three days after its release. New essays have also made their way into the upper ranks, while both new and classic novels are performing well.
According to Yes24, the overall bestseller for the third week of September is Lee Jong-hyuk's A Solid Guide to Protect Teachers: 100 Practical Cases for Various Situations, which topped the charts just three days after its release on September 14.
In second place is Seneca, To You Who Are Losing Today, translated by Hawaii Mansion, with 71.6% of buyers in their 40s and 50s, indicating strong interest from middle-aged readers. This book also held the top spot at Kyobo Bookstore for the second week of September. The children's comic Common Siblings 23 ranked third on Yes24.
New essays have also made a significant impact on the rankings. The first essay from the YouTube channel 'Papuri,' which has 1.87 million subscribers, titled Our Time Mixed with Friendship and Hunger, secured the fourth position. Kim Ae-ran's I Wrote That came in seventh, while The Vocabulary of the Heart by Jo Ah-ran, Kwon Hee, and Lee Jeong-yoon took eighth place, marking three new essays in the top ten.
Classics have also seen a resurgence. Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha is ranked fifth overall on Yes24 and first in the fiction, poetry, and drama category, continuing a five-month streak of double-digit sales growth since May.
At Kyobo Bookstore, a collaborative marketing effort with Minumsa has boosted sales of the World Literature Collection. Hesse's Demian climbed seven spots to 13th, while Françoise Sagan's Do You Like Brahms? is at 19th.
Five novels are positioned within the top 20 on Yes24. Following Siddhartha, Jo Jung-rae's Snow Flower Set is 12th, Yang Gwi-ja's Contradiction is 13th, Choi In-seo's Researcher of Korean Historical Anomalies is 15th, and Yoo Rae-hyuk's Aquarium is 16th.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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