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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 ...
James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early and mid 1920s, according to Publishers Weekly.
Young adult novel, adventure, dystopian, science fiction: Mockingjay: Suzanne Collins: English: 2010: 20 million in US [84] Young Adult novel, adventure, war, science fiction, action thriller Kitchen (キッチン) Banana Yoshimoto: Japanese: 1988: 20 million [100] Japanese novel Andromeda Nebula (Туманность Андромеды) Ivan ...
Author Year 1 The Cave of Time: Edward Packard: 1979 2 Journey Under the Sea: R. A. Montgomery: 1979 3 By Balloon to the Sahara (reissued as Danger in the Desert) Douglas Terman: 1979 4 Space and Beyond: R. A. Montgomery 1980 5 The Mystery of Chimney Rock (reissued as The Curse of the Haunted Mansion) Edward Packard 1980 6
American adventure novels, a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Some adventure fiction also satisfies the literary definition of romance fiction .
Films based on adventure novels (9 C, 18 P) * Adventure novels by decade (1 C) Adventure novels by nationality (11 C) Adventure novel series (5 C, 2 P)
An adventure is an event or series of events that happens outside the course of the protagonist's ordinary life, usually accompanied by danger, often by physical action. Adventure stories almost always move quickly, and the pace of the plot is at least as important as characterization, setting, and other elements of creative work. [2]
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [1] For the second consecutive year, the most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 7 weeks at the top of the list.