NEW YORK (AP) – Prince Harry’s “Spare” has sold more than 3.2 million copies worldwide in just a week of its release and is set to become one of the best-selling memoirs of all time.
Penguin Random House announced on Thursday that Prince Harry’s headline-grabbing memoir has sold 1.6 million copies in the US alone. That number compares to the first-week sales of blockbusters like former President Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land” and former First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Becoming,” which have sold more than 17 million copies since their release in 2018.
The British publisher announced last week that ‘Spare’ had sold 400,000 copies on day one in the UK across all formats – hardcover, e-book and audio.
Total sales announced for “Spare” are for print, audio and digital editions in the major English-speaking markets: US, UK, Canada and Australia. The book has been published in 15 additional languages, and editions in 10 additional languages are expected.
Spare may set records for nonfiction, but no book can match the pace of the last Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which sold more than 10 million copies in the first 24 hours in 2007.
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex collaborated on his book with American writer JR Moehringer, who also contributed to Andre Agassi’s acclaimed “Open” and is the author of “The Tender Bar,” a memoir starring Ben Affleck and adapted by George Clooney.