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Min. estimated sales Max. estimated sales Original language Genre and/or major works Number of books Nationality William Shakespeare: 2 billion [1] 4 billion [2] English: Plays and poetry, e.g. Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet: 42 British: Agatha Christie: 2 billion [3] 4 billion [2] English Whodunits, including the Miss Marple and Hercule ...
Examples of books with claimed high sales include The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, [10] Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, [11] Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en [12] and The Lord of the Rings [13] (which has been sold as both a three volume series, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, as a ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 September 2024. List of best-selling books in the United States The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. The New York Times Book Review has published the list weekly since October 12, 1931. In the 21st century, it has ...
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.
This is a list of lists of bestselling novels in the United States as determined by Publishers Weekly.The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1895 through 2020.
A trade paperback (also called trade paper edition and trade) is a higher-quality paperback book. [34] If it is a softcover edition of a previous hardcover edition and is published by the same house as the hardcover, the text pages are normally identical with those of the hardcover edition, and the book is almost the same size as the hardcover ...
USA Today has only one list, not hardcover/paperback, so that relative sales of these categories cannot be ascertained from it. Lists from Amazon.com, the dominant online book retailer, are based only on sales from their own Web site, and are updated on an hourly basis. Wholesale sales figures are not factored into Amazon's calculations.
This page provides a list of the largest deals for books and book series to date. It differentiates from the list of best-selling books in that book deals are secured before the book is released, and often before the book is completed.