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Sunday, June 8, 2003

Maclean's Top Ten Hardcover Fiction List

Forthcoming

ABA Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Based on sales from independent bookstores across America.

  1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  2. The Sinister Pig -Tony Hillerman
  3. Villa Incognito - Tom Robbins
  4. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
  5. Naked Prey - John Sandford
  6. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
  7. The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
  8. The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
  9. No Second Chance - Harlan Coben
  10. The Guardian - Nicholas Sparks

 

 

New York Times Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
  1. The Arraignment - Steve Martini 
  2. The Bone Vault - Linda Fairstein
  3. By the Light of the Moon - Dean Koontz
  4. Crossroads of Twilight - Robert Jordan 

  5. Forever: A Novel - Pete Hamill

  6. Four Blind Mice - James Patterson 

  7. Hornet Flight - Ken Follet

  8. I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother - Allison K. Pearson

  9. The Last Jihad - Joel C. Rosenberg

  10. Life of Pi: A Novel - Yann Martel

New York Times Bestsellers - Children's Chapter Book Bestsellers 

  1. Abhorsen - Garth Nix

  2. The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket

  3. The Carnivorous Carnival - Lemony Snicket

  4. The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket

  5. Junie B., First Grader: Boss of Lunch - Barbara Park

  6. The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket

  7. The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket

  8. The Wide Window - Lemony Snicket

  9. Junie B. Jones, First Grader (At Last!) - Barbara Park

  10. Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography - Lemony Snicket

The Best-selling Books of All Time

This list was taken from The Top Ten of Everything 2001, by Russell Ash (General Publishing, 29.95)

  1. The Bible - (more than 6 billion)

  2. Quotations from the works of Mao Tse-Tung (900 million)

  3. American Spelling Book - Noah Webster (100 million)

  4. The Guinness World Book of Records (90 million)

  5. World Almanac* - (73.5 million)

  6. The McGuffey Readers - William Holmes McGuffey (60 million)

  7. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care - Dr. Benjamin Spock (50 million)

  8. A Message to Garcia - Elbert Hubbard (40 million)

  9. In His Steps: "What Would Jesus Do?" (more than 30 million)

  10. Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann (more than 30 million)

* denotes aggregate sales of annual publications.

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