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unusual facts about New York Times Best Seller list



Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story

Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story is a 1997 TV-movie about diver Greg Louganis based on the best-selling book Breaking the Surface co-written by Greg Louganis and Eric Marcus that stayed on top of the New York Times Best Seller list for 5 weeks.

Broadway Books

Broadway Books has since published many New York Times bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, including Elizabeth Edwards’ memoir Resilience, Bill O’Reilly’s memoir A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Decision Points by George W. Bush, Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, and A Lion Called Christian by Ace Bourke and John Rendall.

Dana Thomas

She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, published by The Penguin Press in 2007.

Dragonships

Dragonships of Vindras is a planned six-book fantasy-adventure novel series by New York Times best-selling authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

Emerson Combat Systems

New York Times bestselling author David Morrell underwent training in Emerson Combat Systems as research for several of his books about Special Operations and close quarters combat.

Fancy Nancy

Books in the Fancy Nancy series have now spent more than 300 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and in the fall of 2012, "Fancy Nancy the Musical" was produced by Vital Theatre Company in New York City.

Hilarity Ensues

Hilarity Ensues (2012) is the third New York Times best selling book by Tucker Max.

On the Down Low: A Journey into the Lives of Straight Black Men Who Sleep with Men

On the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of Straight Black Men Who Sleep with Men is a 2004 New York Times Bestselling non-fiction book by J. L. King.

Paths of Darkness

Paths of Darkness is the New York Times best-selling series of novels chronicling adventures of the renegade drow elf character Drizzt Do'Urden written by R. A. Salvatore.

Rob Guillory

In 2008, Guillory began working on his first major comics work, the New York Times Best-selling Chew, written by John Layman and published by Image Comics.

Shadow of Night

Shadow of Night was first published in hardcover on July 10, 2012 by Penguin Books, becoming a New York Times Best Seller upon its release.

Vast right-wing conspiracy

In 2004, conservative lawyer Mark W. Smith wrote the New York Times Best Seller Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, which came with a "membership card" that made its owner an "official member of the VRWC."

Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant

Far From the Tree was a New York Times Bestseller, and Better Than I Know Myself received two Open Book Awards, and was included on the Best African-American fiction of 2004 lists of both Borders and WaldenBooks.


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Book store shoplifting

In 2008, Constant gave this list, which he called "pretty much the authoritative top five, the New York Times best-seller list of stolen books": Bukowski, Jim Thompson, Philip K. Dick, and Burroughs, along with "any graphic novel".

Melissa Anelli

Her first book, Harry, A History was released in early November 2008 and debuted at #18 on the New York Times Best Seller List.