Half of the books on the New York Times best-selling list in February are tied to a Netflix series.
On World Book Day, the streaming site noticed an interesting pattern that many of its series adapted from books became best-sellers as the series’ grew in popularity.
So, although advice has commonly been to read a book before seeing its movie or TV adaptation- it appears many people enjoy getting stuck into the novel after binging it on their small screens.
The success of
Bridgerton, which has become the biggest series on the platform as a staggering 82 million households binged it, led to all five books being on the NYT list at the same time.