Publisher HarperCollins announced Monday that in six days, Harper Lee's second novel, Go Set a Watchman, has sold 1.1 million copies including hardcovers, e-books, and audiobooks. An eye-popping statistic, to be sure. In fact, it's the fastest-selling book HarperCollins has ever published.
But it's not the fastest-selling book of 2015. That title, The Los Angeles Times reports, goes to a different reimagination of a much-loved book: E.L. James' Grey, which chronicles the erotic escapades of Fifty Shades of Grey's Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey from the perspective of its title character. Watchman, which Lee actually wrote before To Kill a Mockingbird, follows an older Scout in the third person. Grey hit 1.1 million sales in just four days this June.
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