Hoover’s books have garnered an unprecedented fanbase thanks to ugly cry faces flooding social media.
, behind only Stephen King, on Goodreads. The 42-year-old was a social worker living in a mobile home in Texas with with her husband and three sons when she self-published her first novel “Slammed” in 2012. It went on to become a best seller, and she’s since published dozens more novels, including six that are currently inon the New York Times paperback fiction best-seller list. She’s sold 12.2 million print books in the US this year alone, outselling both the Bible and Dr.
Best-selling author Colleen Hoover, 42, hails from Texas and went from living in a mobile home with her husband and three boys to having six of her novels on the top 10 best seller list. Her books have outsold Dr. Seuss and the Bible.Brittni Lourenco posted herself in tears after reading “It Ends With Us” and “Ugly Love” in the summer of 2021.
Hoover is such a phenomenon, she’s drawing comparisons to pop stars, not other authors. “She kind of reminds me of Taylor Swift – hate her or love her, if someone is selling that many books she has to know what she’s doing,” Shelby Zang, 23, who is based in Chicago and runs the popular books-focused TikTok“Her books are an easy read that also grab you and rip you apart emotionally, which is what makes her writing attractive.
Shelby Zang, 23, a Chicago-based BookToker who runs the @BookgasmTheClub book club with hundreds of Colleen Hoover fans. A TikTok she made recapping Hoover’s “It Ends With Us” went viral. Here, she poses with her favorite Hoover book, “Verity.”
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