Recently (the article is dated April 5, 2010) Publisher's Weekly revised the ranked sales figures for adult hardcover fiction and nonfiction and trade and mass market paperbacks that appeared the March 22, 2010 issue. A complete explanation is here.
Note: We're only listing the number one entry. The lists continue on well beyond number one.
The rankings also include sales numbers in these categories:
A) Hardcover Fiction Sales, 2009
1. The Lost Symbol: A Novel. Dan Brown. Doubleday (5,543,643).
B) Hardcover Nonfiction Sales, 2009
1. Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin. Harper (2,674,684).
C) Mass Market
2,000,000+
The Associate: A Novel. John Grisham. Rep. Dell (2,150,227).
1,000,000+
Cross Country. James Patterson. Grand Central (1,275,888).
750,000+
7th Heaven. James Patterson. Grand Central (994,030).
500,000+
The Brass Verdict. Michael Connelly. Grand Central (768,417).
D) Trade Paperbacks
1,000,000+
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity. William P. Young. Orig. Windblown (3,595,467).
750,000+
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time. Greg Mortenson. Penguin (973,280).
500,000+
Say You're One of Them. Uwem Akpan. Back Bay. (708,033).
300,000+
My Life in France. Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. Rep. Vintage/Anchor (497,731).
250,000+
Into the Wild. Jon Krakauer. Rep. Vintage/Anchor (299,147).
100,000+
*An Inconvenient Book: Real World Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems. Glenn Beck. Rep. Threshold. Note: "Entries preceded by an asterisk are titles for which exact sales numbers were supplied to PW in confidence, for use in ranking the titles only."
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