bestseller
Americannoun
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bestsellers
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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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The night before, she’d been in Brooklyn, celebrating the release of her highly-anticipated “Exit Party,” which is ricocheting up bestseller lists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
As the bestseller “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” pointed out last year, the companies creating these digital Frankenstein monsters don’t even know how they operate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Her book is bound to be a bestseller anyway.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
One of his favorites was a beaten-up copy of a 1998 bestseller titled “Who Moved My Cheese?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
How do these three rules help us understand teenage smoking, for example, or the phenomenon of word of mouth, or crime, or the rise of a bestseller?
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
While it sources from all over the world, it uses its Los Angeles factory to deliver rapid turnaround of bestsellers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Actor and writer Stephen Fry's "The Odyssey" currently tops the history bestsellers on Amazon's UK website.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Within a couple of weeks, it was No. 9 on the New York Times bestsellers list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Most recently, Communion was included on the Observer's best debut novelists of 2026 - a list which previously picked out bestsellers including Rooney's Conversation with Friends and The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Galoshes and clear plastic rain bonnets have been bestsellers at Miss Mattie’s mercantile in Halleluia all month.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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