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This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
novel, short story, memoir/ autobiography, drama, poetry, essay 2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (b. 1940) France Mauritius: French "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization" [109] novel, short story, essay, translation 2009: Herta Müller (b. 1953) Germany
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition is loosely interpreted to include novellas, novelettes, and books of interconnected short stories.)
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 Newark-born author set many of his books in his hometown, including his last novel, "Nemesis," in addition to his most well-known works such as 1997's "American Pastoral," 1969's "Portnoy's ...
Many publishers have lists of best books, defined by their own criteria.This article enumerates some lists for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by ...
Women electronic writers; Women experimental writers; Women detective/mystery writers; Women Nobel laureates; Women poets; Modernist women writers; Women printers/publishers before 1800; Women rhetoricians; Women science fiction authors; Biographical dictionaries of women writers in English; Norton Anthology of Literature by Women