bestseller
Americannoun
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a book that is among those having the largest sales during a given period.
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any product that among those of its kind is selling particularly well at a given time.
This car was a bestseller last year.
noun
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a book, record, CD, or other product that has sold in great numbers, esp over a short period
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the author of one or more such books, etc
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I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, a 2023 memoir by former courier Hu Anyan, became a runaway bestseller in China and also captured media attention abroad.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“A Woman of Substance,” based on Barbara Taylor Bradford’s 1979 bestseller, is being sold to an American audience as a “Downton Abbey” replacement.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
For the past three weeks, it topped the New York Times bestseller list.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
More than 30 years ago, her first book, “On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family,” debuted with a splash and became a national bestseller.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Just like Miss Stein told Miss Skeeter, this book ain’t gone be no bestseller and to keep our “expectations low.”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
The books - called Culpa Mia, Culpa Tuya and Culpa Nuestra were all written before she was aged 20, and after launching on Wattpad, they went on to became bestsellers, and hugely popular with teenagers.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Within a couple of weeks, it was No. 9 on the New York Times bestsellers list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
While the New York Times bestsellers from 2025 skew in favor of the 6-by-9 trim, the popularity of 5-by-8 books appears to be on the rise.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Collectively, those imprints have produced more than 50 New York Times bestsellers.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2026
Danglers show up in newspapers and bestsellers, on the network news and highway billboards, and they can be endlessly entertaining—as long as they’re perpetrated by someone else.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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