bestseller

noun

best·​sell·​er ˈbes(t)-ˈse-lər 

variants or best seller

plural bestsellers or best sellers

: a popular product and especially a book whose sales are among the highest of its class

[Isabel] Allende's new book is spun from the stuff of epic romances: eternal love, lost innocence, distant locales, revolution. In short, all the elements of a sure bestseller.

—Julie K. L. Dam

The Harvard Book Store Café … is not only the obvious choice for the latest best seller but the intelligent break for a shopper's graze.

—Alice Rubenstein Gochman

Two million copies have been sold, and it has been on the New York Times bestseller list for four years.

—Judith Daniels

… the two Fisher-Price bestsellers are the company's Fun with Food [toy] series and the Fisher-Price Fun with Food Kitchen.

—The New Yorker

She knows what the mass market wants—Vanderbilt and Chaps [fragrances] are best sellers—and she has a flair for what appeals to a more specialized market …

—Amy Singer

best-sellerdom

ˈbes(t)-ˈse-lər-dəm 

noun

best-selling

ˈbes(t)-ˈse-liŋ 

adjective

Examples of bestseller in a Sentence

She has written several best sellers.

Recent Examples on the Web

Barbra Streisand is one bestseller ahead of Sinatra, with 34 appearances inside that competitive region. —Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025

Casper: 20% Off Furniture Casper is wishing everyone a Happy Snooze Year with 30% off bundles of their bestsellers, 50% off clearance mattresses, and 20% off furniture. —Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 6 Jan. 2025

Ideas By Janice Kaplan January 3, 2025 7:00 AM EST Kaplan is the author of many popular books including the New York Times bestseller The Gratitude Diaries and her new book What Your Body Knows About Happiness. —Janice Kaplan, TIME, 3 Jan. 2025

Gift cards have been bestsellers this season, and several retailers saw solid demand for dresses and men’s wear-to-work clothes seemingly generated by the ongoing return-to-office trend. —David Moin, WWD, 24 Dec. 2024

The book has spent 164 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and its devoted fans waited for the movie's release. —CBS News, 21 Dec. 2024

Movie Quotes Drinking Game $12.99 Buy Now On Amazon Take your game night up a notch with this Movie Quotes Drinking Game, which is a bestseller on Amazon. —Tim Chan, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024

Already a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and has been shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards, An African History of Africa corrects many of the misguided fallacies that pervade Western narratives about Africa. —Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Dec. 2024

Alongside Walden, Big Beach is developing a feature adaptation of Ramona Ausubel’s bestseller The Last Animal, with Ry Russo-Young at the helm. —Matt Grobar, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1864, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

best-seller

noun

best-sell·​er

ˈbes(t)-ˈsel-ər

: an article (as a book) whose sales are among the highest of its kind

best-selling

-ˈsel-iŋ

adjective