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The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [1] The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Inferno by Dan Brown with 6 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith with 5 weeks.
7 March – World Book Day becomes a UNESCO-designated event marked in more than 100 countries. [3] April – J. K. Rowling publishes a detective novel, The Cuckoo's Calling, under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, with the U.K. publisher Sphere Books. The author's identity is revealed by the media in July. [4] 23 April – World Book Night. [3]
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [ 4 ]
March 5, 2020 – The U.S. Senate approves an $8.3 billion federal emergency aid package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. March 11, 2020 – The World Health Organization officially declares COVID-19 a global pandemic. USNS Comfort off Manhattan to help with the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, 2020
April 14 – Bookshops are among the first few premises permitted to reopen on relaxation of restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. [1]May 26–July 10 – J. K. Rowling releases her new fairy tale The Ickabog in free online instalments during restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
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.
2013 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.
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