Prince Harry’s memoirs surpass 1.4 million copies on first day of sale

No, the public is not tired of hearing about Prince Harry. The sale of Spare Parts has placed the Duke of Sussex in some rare company.

Penguin Random House announced on Wednesday that Harry’s candid memoir surpassed 1.4 million copies on its first day, a record for non-fiction from the company that also publishes Barack and Michelle Obama, whose “Becoming” took a week to reach 1. .4 million copies. when it was released in 2018.

Spare’s sales figures include hardcovers, audiobooks and e-books sold in the US, Canada and the UK.

‘Spare’ is the story of a man we may have thought we already knew, but now we can truly understand Prince Harry through his own words,” Gina Centello, president and publisher of Random House Group, said in a statement.

“Looking at these extraordinary first day sales, readers clearly agree that Spare is a book to read and we are proud to publish it.”

One of the most anticipated memoirs in recent memory, Spare is Harry’s highly personal and intimate account of his life in the royal family and his relationship with American actress Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex.

Since then, Michelle Obama’s memoirs have sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, and their sales have not declined over time, in part because of the very positive reviews. The verdict is still mixed for the “Spare”.

New York Times critic Alexandra Jacob called the book and its author “across the map – both emotionally and physically”, at times “candid and funny”, and at other times consumed by Harry’s anger at the British press. In The Washington Post, Louis Bayard found “Speyr” to be “good-natured, spiteful, humorous, smug, self-deprecating, wordy. And confusing at times.”