The Top 10 Books And Audiobooks Of 2023

It’s time to start figuring out taxes for 2023, which means checking paperwork, filing for 1099s, and so forth. It also means finding out the top ten bestselling books of 2023.

Here are my top ten bestselling ebooks of 2023. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that 2023 was the Year of Dragonskull:

1.) DRAGONSKULL: TALONS OF THE SORCERER

2.) DRAGONSKULL: WRATH OF THE WARLOCK

3.) DRAGONSKULL: DOOM OF THE SORCERESS

4.) DRAGONSKULL: CROWN OF THE GODS

5.) CLOAK OF DRAGONFIRE

6.) DRAGONSKULL: FURY OF THE BARBARIANS

7.) DRAGONSKULL: SWORD OF THE SQUIRE

8.) DRAGONSKULL: SHIELD OF THE KNIGHT

9.) DRAGONSKULL: BLADE OF THE ELVES

10.) DRAGONSKULL: CURSE OF THE ORCS

So basically my bestselling books of 2023 were the DRAGONSKULL series, plus CLOAK OF DRAGONFIRE. 🙂 This bodes well for both SHIELD OF STORMS and CLOAK OF TITANS later this year.

Audio, of course, has become an increasingly important format, so here are my top 10 bestselling audiobooks across all platforms for 2023:

1.) THE GHOSTS OMNIBUS ONE

2.) FROSTBORN: THE SHADOW PRISON

3.) FROSTBORN: THE WORLD GATE

4.) FROSTBORN: THE HIGH LORDS

5.) FROSTBORN: THE DWARVEN PRINCE

6.) FROSTBORN: THE DRAGON KNIGHT

7.) FROSTBORN: EXCALIBUR

8.) FROSTBORN: THE GORGON SPIRIT

9.) FROSTBORN: THE FALSE KING

10.) FROSTBORN: THE DARK WARDEN

So for audio, 2023 was almost the Year of FROSTBORN…but people still really like the big omnibus audiobooks like THE GHOSTS OMNIBUS ONE.

Paperbacks are a much smaller sales channel than either ebooks or audiobooks. But as it turns out, it’s really easy to run that report, so here are my top ten bestselling paperbacks of 2023.

1.) THE WINDOWS COMMAND LINE BEGINNERS GUIDE

2.) THE LINUX COMMAND LINE BEGINNERS GUIDE

3.) THE UBUNTU BEGINNERS GUIDE

4.) FROSTBORN: THE GRAY KNIGHT

5.) FROSTBORN: THE EIGHTFOLD KNIFE

6.) SEVENFOLD SWORD: CHAMPION

7.) DRAGONSKULL: SHIELD OF THE KNIGHT

8.) DRAGONSKULL: DOOM OF THE SORCERESS

9.) MALISON: THE COMPLETE SERIES

10.) DRAGONSKULL: CURSE OF THE ORCS

I don’t really write about technology very much any more. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but there are only so many hours in the day, and the money is just a lot better for epic fantasy fiction. That said, I’m glad that people are still finding my tech books helpful enough to buy. My favorite review of THE WINDOWS COMMAND LINE BEGINNER’S GUIDE came from a math professor who said he hated the book, but he couldn’t find a better introduction to the Windows command line environment so he still recommended it to his students. 🙂

Thanks for reading, everyone! I’m still grinding away on SHIELD OF STORMS so hopefully we shall have a new book soon!

-JM