Colleen Hoover sales statistics
- Colleen Hoover has sold more than 20 million books
- In 2022, Colleen Hoover’s books sold more copies than the bible
- Hoover sold 8.6 million print copies in 2022 while The Bible sold 5 million copies
- She sold more books than perennial best-sellers James Patterson and John Grisham combined
- For August 2022, Hoover books made up 6 of the 10 best-selling titles
- In August 22, she also had 15 titles in the top 150 of the USA Today Bestseller list in the same week
- Hoover started out self-publishing so is not dependent on one publishing house
- It Ends With Us has sold over 4 million copies
- It Starts with Us was the most pre-ordered novel in the history of Simon & Schuster
- It Starts with Us sold 800,000 copies (including pre-orders) on the first day it was published
- Hoover is successful internationally – having sold 500,000 copies since the beginning of 2022 in Brazil
- In the UK, Hoover has sold more than 1 million (1.18 million) copies of her books in 2022
- Hoover’s books have earned £7 million in the UK
Colleen Hoover, TikTok and social media
- #colleenhoover has 2.4 billion views on TikTok
- #CoHo has 411.6 million views on TikTok
- Hoover’s official TikTok account has 1.1 million followers and 14.6 million likes
- Across all platforms, Hoover has over 3.9 million followers
- Hoover is known as the “Queen of BookTok”
- Her fans refer to her as CoHo and call themselves CoHorts
- Much of her success is attributed to going viral on TikTok and the strong reading community there
- Hoover has been an astute marketer of her books even before TikTok
- She distributed books to influencers and subsequently became big on BookTube (YouTube) and Bookstagram (Instagram) amongst the reading communities there
How many books has Colleen Hoover published?
- Colleen Hoover has published 24 books as of 2022
- Since releasing Slammed in 2012, Hoover has been prolific – releasing a new title every 23 weeks on average or 2.2 books per year
- This is a similar rate to Stephen King who now has over 100 pieces of published works
| # | Title | Year | Page Count | Audiobook Length |
| 1 | Slammed | 2012 | 317 | 7 hrs and 14 mins |
| 2 | Point of Retreat | 2012 | 320 | 6 hrs and 48 mins |
| 3 | This Girl | 2013 | 306 | 9 hrs and 18 mins |
| 4 | Hopeless | 2013 | 408 | 12 hrs and 34 mins |
| 5 | Losing Hope | 2013 | 333 | 10 hrs and 33 mins |
| 6 | Finding Cinderella | 2014 | 176 | 4 hrs and 2 mins |
| 7 | Maybe Someday | 2014 | 384 | 10 hrs and 40 mins |
| 8 | Maybe Not | 2014 | 160 | 3 hrs and 15 mins |
| 9 | Ugly Love | 2014 | 336 | 9 hrs and 14 mins |
| 10 | Never Never | 2015 | 284 | 4 hrs and 23 mins |
| 11 | Confess | 2015 | 321 | 7 hrs and 50 mins |
| 12 | November 9 | 2015 | 320 | 9 hrs and 46 mins |
| 13 | Too Late | 2016 | 395 | 13 hrs and 4 mins |
| 14 | It Ends with Us | 2016 | 376 | 11 hrs and 11 mins |
| 15 | Without Merit | 2017 | 384 | 9 hrs and 13 mins |
| 16 | All Your Perfects | 2018 | 320 | 7 hrs and 43 mins |
| 17 | Verity | 2018 | 331 | 8 hrs and 10 mins |
| 18 | Maybe Now | 2018 | 432 | 9 hrs and 11 mins |
| 19 | Finding Perfect | 2019 | 96 | 1 hr and 44 mins |
| 20 | Regretting You | 2019 | 354 | 11 hrs and 17 mins |
| 21 | Heart Bones | 2020 | 368 | 8 hrs and 12 mins |
| 22 | Layla | 2020 | 304 | 8 hrs and 10 mins |
| 23 | Reminders of Him | 2022 | 336 | 10 hrs and 17 mins |
| 24 | It Starts with Us | 2022 | 336 | 8 hrs and 41 mins |
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Who is Collen Hoover’s publisher?
- Hoover has deals with Atria (Simon & Schuster), Grand Central (Hachette), and Montlake (Amazon)
- Hoover has self-published a number of her own books
- Hoover is business savvy, often striking deals to sell the print rights to her books and retain the rights to ebooks herself
- Analysts suggest this gives Hoover a degree of power and control over her career and what she writes that other huge authors with more traditional publishing deals do not have
How did Colleen Hoover become a writer?
- Colleen Hoover was born in Texas in 1979
- In 2011, Hoover was working as a social worker for $9 per hour
- She was living in a trailer with her husband and her sons in a small Texas town
- She began to write her first novel called Slammed – mainly for herself
- Although she had no intention of getting published, her mother had just got a Kindle so Hoover published the book on the Kindle store so her mother could read it
- Within seven months, Slammed was on the NY Times bestseller list and she had earned more than $50k in royalties from the book