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Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author. The following authors were listed twice: Roberto Bolaño, Edward P. Jones, Denis Johnson, Alice Munro, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Philip Roth. [2]
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 ...
ISBNdb.com is a large online database of book information available both via web interface and API. The database includes title, author, ISBN, ISBN13, publisher, publishing date, binding, pages, list price, and more. [1] It contains data on 33+ million books by more than 11 million authors, with more books added every day. [2]
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.
Note: Titles that begin with an article (A, An, Das, Der, Die (German: the), L' , La, Las, Le, Los or The) should be listed under the next word in the title. Very famous books and books for children may be listed both places to help people find them.
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 ...
A list of the ten best graphic novels of the period was subsequently published as a supplement to the list. [3] Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons appears on both the 100 Best Novels and 10 Best Graphic Novels lists, giving the combined lists a total of 109 entries.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover with 10 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros with 9 weeks. For a second consecutive year, Colleen ...