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The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [1] The most popular book of the year was Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James with 28 weeks at the top.
After 2012, Publishers Weekly used the lists from Nielsen BookScan for print, supplemented by the Amazon.com lists for Kindle and print. [1] Some of the lists of print bestsellers have combined the different formats of books into one list. Books that are not novels will be excluded when possible, especially nonfiction books.
20th-Century American Bestsellers, database of 20th-century American bestsellers via Publishers Weekly, with expanded information including cover images, synopsis, literary history, &c., by John Unsworth of University of Illinois; American Bestsellers, 1895–1923 from Project Gutenberg
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 New York Times Best Seller list was first published without fanfare on October 12, 1931. [1] [2] It consisted of five fiction and four nonfiction for the New York City region only. [2] The following month the list was expanded to eight cities, with a separate list for each city. [2] By the early 1940s, fourteen cities were included.
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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 ...
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.