Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The upset Harris storms off. Hours later, he enters a bookshop, and lights up a display of books. Hospitalised, the arson has drawn attention to the book. Later on, Lucy is told that Harris' heart, lungs and liver are shot. Just as his book hits the best-seller list, she drives him to his home to live out his last days.
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [14] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [15] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best selling books in the United States. The lists are split in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.
The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the hardcover fiction category. [1] The most popular books of the year were The Appeal, by John Grisham and Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult with respectively 5 and 3 weeks at the top.
The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the hardcover fiction category. [1] The most popular books of the year were A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini with 13 weeks at the top. The author James Patterson was at the top for five different books.
The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the hardcover fiction category. [1] The Da Vinci Code dominated the year, spending a cumulative 20 weeks at the top. Sales continued strong into 2004.
Individual books, albums, films, or other items should not be categorized here. Subcategories. ... List of best-selling individual magazine covers;
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [ 4 ]