best-seller list
noun
: a list of books that are selling the most copies
Her first novel was on the best-seller list for two months.
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In the week following its release on March 11, Careless People hit the top of the Times best-seller list and sold 60,000 copies.
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Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2025
All of this has only generated interest: On Thursday, the book debuted at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction and, as of this writing, was the third best-selling book on Amazon.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
When her full-length memoir arrived in 2021, shortly before the band’s third studio album, Jubilee, the book spent more than a year atop the New York Times’ best-seller list.
—Delia Cai, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
The book hit the New York Times best-seller list and caught the attention of Universal Pictures, which paid Crichton a quarter-million dollars (more than two million in today’s dollars) for the movie rights.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025
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Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2025
All of this has only generated interest: On Thursday, the book debuted at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction and, as of this writing, was the third best-selling book on Amazon.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
When her full-length memoir arrived in 2021, shortly before the band’s third studio album, Jubilee, the book spent more than a year atop the New York Times’ best-seller list.
—Delia Cai, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
The book hit the New York Times best-seller list and caught the attention of Universal Pictures, which paid Crichton a quarter-million dollars (more than two million in today’s dollars) for the movie rights.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025
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“Best-seller list.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/best-seller%20list. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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