“Open City” has been a surprise word-of-mouth bestseller since it was published five months ago in America.
Tim Harford's 2005 bestseller, "the Undercover Economist", was a book that has helped shift that perception by bringing the not-so-dismal science to a wider audience.
That sentence springs from "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", a surprise literary hit (it was a bestseller in America last April) that imagines Regency England being overrun by the undead.
Helene Hegemann, daughter of famed German dramatist Carl Hegemann, recently released her debut novel Axolotl Roadkill, which is currently working its way up a number of German bestseller lists.
And how does a book by a relatively unknown journalist end up as an international bestseller?
In 1960, his bestseller the Great Impostor was turned into a movie of the same name starring Tony Curtis.
In his 1988 bestseller, a Brief History of Time, Prof Hawking appeared to accept the role of God in the creation of the Universe.
On October 9th the preliminary prospectus was published like a bestseller, a 600-page door-stop that appeared in the office of every bank and hedge fund in Hong Kong.
Taylor’s greatest work, “The Principles of Scientific Management”, was the very first business bestseller.
Vladimir Nabokov, the acclaimed author of Ada, Pnin, Pale Fire and that transgressive bestseller Lolita, is a writer whose imaginative mastery continues to torment successive generations.
Just over a year ago, Jhumpa Lahiri’s second collection, “Unaccustomed Earth”, leapt straight to the top of the New York Times bestseller list in its first week of publication.
Her 2001 bestseller, "Seabiscuit", about an underdog-turned-champion racehorse, brings the horse vividly to life.
The "geography is dead" concept has been presented convincingly by Thomas Friedman in his bestseller, the World is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first Century 1.
The English version Rickshaw Boy became a US bestseller in 1945.
The book surged back up bestseller lists in March after a woman taken hostage in Atlanta convinced her kidnapper to release her unharmed by reading him passages from the book.
Because Oprah is the kind of person who can turn a book into a runaway bestseller just by saying so.
Mr Tapscott and Mr Williams have now written a follow-up to their bestseller.
Poignant, measured and wistful, it was a bestseller and won the Pulitzer prize - the first to be awarded to a woman. Ph.
"War and Peace" was a famous bestseller.
Donald Trump, that well-known storyteller, was whistling merrily yesterday. He says his book, " The Art of the Deal, " which has been at the top of bestseller lists since December, is going to benefit charities to the tune of $2 million.
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