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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And the humorous style of his Little Black Bird Book, published in 1980, made it a bestseller.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
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
Like a book publisher shaping a clunky early draft into a bestseller, an executive at the company suggested the scientists punch up the language, which they did.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
For the past three weeks, it topped the New York Times bestseller list.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Considered by many to be one of the best military autobiographies in history, Grant’s life story was a bestseller.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
Bilton is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, served as special correspondent at Vanity Fair and has worked as a producer and executive producer on several documentaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Collectively, those imprints have produced more than 50 New York Times bestsellers.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2026
The genre hadn’t seen multiple bestsellers in the same year since 2019 — and those were from veteran acts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
Eisler, 88, and McMillan, 74, added multiple bestsellers to this Hall of Fame class.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 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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