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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.
For many years, the list was maintained by Alice Payne Hackett, who also published a decennial series which summarized and commented on the best sellers of the previous decade. Her Seventy Years of Bestsellers 1895–1965 was published in 1970.
On July 23, 2000, a new list was created for best-selling children's books. This controversial decision was due to the dominance of the Harry Potter series, which had occupied three of the top spots for over a year. [1] [2] [3]
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 a separate list for ...
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 ...
Winterfest returns to life this Presidents Day weekend in downtown Stroudsburg. Over 50 ice sculptures will be displayed throughout town, set to the theme of "Children's Storytime."
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 ...
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. According to Nielsen BookScan data, the Fifty Shades series the top three best selling books of the decade, with the first novel selling 15.2 million copies ...