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Retrieved December 18, 2011. Without rival, the twentieth century's king of the genre is Louis Cha. Estimates of his book sales reach up to 300 million copies. One editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review estimated that, if one also counted the pirated copies, over 1 billion of Cha's books have been sold.
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1950 through 1959 . The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...
Book Author January 6: Jailbird: Kurt Vonnegut: January 13 January 20: Smiley's People: John le Carré: January 27 February 3 February 10 February 17: Princess Daisy: Judith Krantz: February 24 March 2 March 9 March 16 March 23: The Bourne Identity: Robert Ludlum: March 30 April 6 April 13 April 20 April 27 May 4 May 11 May 18 May 25 June 1 ...
150 picture books: 1973–2013: 80 million [233] Captain Underpants: Dav Pilkey: English: 12 plus spinoffs: 1997–2015: 80 million [234] Fear Street: R. L. Stine: English: 114: 1989–present: 80 million [235] Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking) Astrid Lindgren: Swedish: 3 + 3 picture books: 1945–2001: 80 million [236] The Vampire ...
The list was compiled by Time Magazine critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo. [1] The list includes only English language novels published between 1923 (when Time was first published) and 2005 (when the list was compiled). As a result, some notable 20th-century novels, such as Ulysses by James Joyce (published in 1922), were ineligible for ...
Book Author January 1: The Egyptian: Mika Waltari: January 8 January 15 January 22 January 29 February 5 February 12 February 19: The Parasites: Daphne du Maurier: February 26 March 5 March 12 March 19 March 26: The Wall: John Hersey: April 2 April 9 April 16 April 23 April 30: The Cardinal: Henry Morton Robinson: May 7 May 14 May 21 May 28 ...
number-one books. This is a list of lists by year of The New York Times number-one books . 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 ...
June 1 June 8 June 15: Breach of Faith: Theodore H. White: June 22 June 29 July 6 July 13 July 20 July 27 August 3 August 10 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7: Sylvia Porter's Money Book: Sylvia Porter: September 14 September 21 September 28 October 5 October 12 October 19 October 26 November 2 November 9 November 16 November 23: Power ...