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n. a bestseller
Usage examples of "best-seller".
While the typical nonfiction best-seller is about cats or diets, substantial, serious books by conservatives have sold well for half a century.
I remember, for instance, when Michael Crichton wrote The Andromeda Strain and it hit the best-seller lists.
And however annoying it might be that Michael Crichton could enter our field straight out of medical school, move right up to the novel level, and land on the best-seller list, and have everyone drooling over him, where the harm?
The one utopian novel I actually managed to read was Looking Backward, and although it was a best-seller in its times and still has its enthusiasts, I tell you right now that if dullness could kill, reading it would be a death sentence.
Her latest compilation of tripe, Red Blood Reigns, has been on the lamebrained Times best-seller list for untold eons.
E-books may also help restore the balance between best-sellers and midlist authors and between fiction and textbooks.
German best-seller lists, making Germany a bigger country for me, saleswise, than any other country in the world.
A partire dai primi tempi, da quando cioè nessuno aveva molta voglia d'intervistare un autore di libri per ragazzi e la promozione era solo una firma o due in un negozio di libri per bambini, fino alla follia degli ultimi tempi, quando ogni libro pretende di essere pubblicizzato per televisione e per radio, si chiacchiera di cartoni animati nei saggi, si scrivono sui rotocalchi lunghe e intelligenti recensioni, e ci si sente ripetere all'infinito la domanda: Cosa si prova ad avere libri per ragazzi nella classifica dei best-seller per adulti?
The epic quickly moved onto every national best-seller list with the author and book receiving critical acclaim.
Though regularly rejected by the big publishers with marketing muscle, conservative books keep ending up on the best-seller lists.
Theirs was a relationship that could only be cheaply imitated by Bill and Hillary - the latter being a subject of Barbara's appropriately biting best-seller Hell to Pay.
Bozner, whose book had just hit The New York Times best-seller list, and who would have been a hot property had he actually shown up.
The bookshelves next to the magazine rack were stocked with works by King, Koontz, Grisham, and other best-sellers, as well as novels by Wallace Stegner, Rachel Ingalls, and Richard Ford.
Shannon whose novels always found a home on the best-seller lists, not the New-Age Kerouac who had crossed the country uncounted times in various vans, motor homes, and cars.
Though he occupied prime real estate on the op-ed page of the Newspaper of Record, only one of Lewis’s four books ever became a best-seller.