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The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the hardcover fiction category. [1]The most popular books of the year were The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson and The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, with respectively 8 and 6 weeks at the top.
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 from 2010 to 2019. The Hunger Games (2008) was fourth (8.7 million copies) followed by The Help (2009) (8.7 million).
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.
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.
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The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the hardcover fiction category. [1]The most popular books of the year were The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown and The Associate, by John Grisham with respectively 7 and 4 weeks at the top.
The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the hardcover fiction category. [1] The most popular books of the year were A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini with 13 weeks at the top. The author James Patterson was at the top for five different books.