Example Sentences

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It hardly sounds like the stuff of bestsellerdom.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2021

Like many social scourges, it has frequently been the subject of voyeuristic entertainments, heavy-breathing narratives in the tradition of the great Jackies of lowdown bestsellerdom, Susann and Collins.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2017

It is time for what the publishing world calls super Thursday: there’s an avalanche of books by celebrity authors yearning for Christmas bestsellerdom.

From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2014

Take Joel Dicker’s “The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair,” published in English in the U.S. earlier this year after attaining bestsellerdom in French.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2014

When it was published in 1947, it received rave notices from serious critics but also made the lower rungs of bestsellerdom.

From Time Magazine Archive