Go Set a Watchman Breaks Book Selling Records

By Dianna Dilworth 

Harper Lee‘s highly anticipated, Go Set a Watchman, has been breaking sales records since it hit bookshelves yesterday.

Barnes & Noble revealed that the title surpassed first day sales of all other adult trade fiction books in the company’s history beating out Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, the previous first day bestseller, which came out in 2009. In addition, the retailer revealed that Lee’s first book, To Kill a Mockingbird, is currently the No. 2 bestselling book. The retailer is expecting the new book to be the best seller of the year.

In the U.K., Go Set a Watchman sold more than 105,000 copies in its first day on sale.

The title is currently No. 1o on Amazon’s bestsellers list, along with the iBooks bestsellers list. Amazon earlier reported that the novel has been the No. 1 Print pre-order of 2015 for Amazon ever since it went up on the site.