As she anticipates her estranged uncles return to the White House, Mary Trump isnt expecting any future book to catch on like such first-term tell-alls as Michael Wolffs million-selling Fire and Fury or her own blockbuster, Too Much and Never Enough.What else is there to learn? she says. And for people who dont know, the books have been written. Its all really out in the open now.For publishers, Donald Trumps presidential years were a time of extraordinary sales in political books, helped in part by Trumps legal threats and angered tweets. According to Circana, which tracks around 85% of the hardcover and paperback market, the genres sales nearly doubled from 2015 to 2020, from around 5 million copies to around 10 million.Besides books by Wolff and Trump, other bestsellers included former FBI Director James Comeys A Higher Loyalty, former national security adviser John Boltons The Room Where It Happened and Bob Woodwards Fear. Meanwhile, sales for dystopian fiction also jumped, led by Margaret Atwoods A Handmaids Tale, which was adapted into an award-winning Hulu series.But interest has dropped back to 2015 levels since Trump left office, according to Circana, and publishers doubt it will again peak so highly. Readers not only showed little interest in books by or about President Joe Biden and his family they even seemed less excited about Trump-related releases. Mary Trumps Who Could Ever Love You and Woodwards War were both popular this fall, but neither has matched the sales of their books written during the first Trump administration.Weve been there many times, with all those books, HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham says of the various Trump tell-alls. He added that he still sees a market for at least some Trump books perhaps analyzing the recent election because theres a general, serious smart audience, not politically aligned in a hard way, one that would welcome an intelligent voice.Its like the reboot of any hit TV show, says Eric Nelson, publisher and vice president of Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins thats released books by Jared Kushner, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Trump Cabinet nominees Pete Hegseth and Sen. Marco Rubio. Youre not hoping for ratings like last time, just better ratings than the boring show its replacing.In the days following Trumps victory, The Handmaids Tale and George Orwells 1984 returned to bestseller lists, along with more contemporary works such as Timothy Snyders On Tyranny, a 2017 bestseller that expanded upon a Facebook post Snyder wrote soon after Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Books appealing to pro-Trump readers also surged, including those written by Cabinet picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s The Real Anthony Fauci and Hegseths The War on Warriors and Vice President-elect JD Vances Hillbilly Elegy, his 2016 memoir thats sold hundreds of thousands of copies since Trump selected him as his running mate.First lady Melania Trumps memoir, Melania, came out in October and has been high on Amazon.com bestseller lists for weeks, even as critics found it contained little newsworthy information. According to Circana, it has sold more than 200,000 copies, a figure that does not include books sold directly through her website.The Melania book has done extraordinarily well, better than we thought, says Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt. After Election Day, we sold everything we had of it.Conservative books have sold steadily over the years, and several publishers most recently Hachette Book Group have imprints dedicated to those readers. Publishers expect at least some critical books to reach bestseller lists if only because of the tradition of the publishing market favoring the party out of power. But the nature of what those books would look like is uncertain. Perhaps a onetime insider will have a falling out with Trump and write a memoir, like Bolton or former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, or maybe some of his planned initiatives, whether mass deportation or the prosecution of his political foes, will lead to investigative works.A new Fire and Fury is doubtful, with the originally only possible because Wolff enjoyed extraordinary access, spending months around Trump and his White House staff. Members of the president-elects current team have already issued a statement saying they have refused to speak with Wolff, calling the author a known peddler of fake news who routinely concocts situations, conversations, and conclusions that never happened.A publicist for Wolff said he was declining comment.Woodward, who interviewed Trump at length for the 2020 bestseller Rage, told The Associated Press that he had written so much about Trump and other presidents that he wasnt sure what hed take on next. He doesnt rule out another Trump book, but that will depend in part on the president-elect, how out of control he gets, Woodward said, and how far he is able to go.He wants to be the imperial president, where he gets to decide everything and no ones going to get in his way, Woodward said. Hes run into some brick walls in the past and there may be more brick walls. I dont know what will happen. Ill be watching and doing some reporting, but Im still undecided.5 best-selling Trump-related books, per CircanaToo Much and Never Enough, by Mary Trump: 1,248,212 copiesFire and Fury, by Michael Wolff: 936,116 copiesFear, by Bob Woodward: 872,014 copiesThe Room Where It Happened, by John Bolton: 676,010 copiesRage, by Bob Woodward: 549,685 copiesThese figures represent total sales provided by Circana, which tracks about 85% of the print market and does not include e-book or audiobook sales.Hillel Italie, Associated Press national writer