IELTS Graph # 14 - The chart below shows the book sales for five different types of fiction books from 2006 to 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Graph # 14 – Bar graph

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The chart below shows the book sales for five different types of fiction books from 2006 to 2010.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

In the given bar graph, statistics of fiction book sales are grouped by years, from 2006 to 2010. Five different categories of fiction books are compared according to the earnings collected. It is immediately apparent from the chart that the romantic fiction books are bestsellers, collecting the highest revenue.

Romance novels started selling off for around $80,000 in 2006 and then were sold for a whopping $110,000 in 2007. The sales dipped reasonably the next year and ranged from $70,000 to just above the $80,000 mark in the graph, by 2010.  Mystery novels were the second highest selling books, with a high of $80,000 in 2007, but remaining between $60,000 to $45,000 for the rest of the years.

Young adult novels steadily sold for up to $30,000 every year. Classics sold for an average of around $19,000 for all the years, the best year being 2007 ($25,000) and the worst, 2010 (around $10,000). The least sold novels were sci-fi and fantasy books, that reached a height of just $20,000 in 2007, otherwise remained below that mark.

Overall, romance and mystery books have been leading in all the years and 2007 is the most profitable year for book sales in all 5 categories.

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