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Among this week's new arrivals on our hardcover list are two novels by celebrated storytellers--Robert B. Parker and Mario Puzo. Putnam launched Parker's Death in Paradise on October 1 (first [...]

It's rare that a book of poetry hits the national hardcover charts, so it's particularly impressive that a collection of poetry makes it to the #4 spot on the hardcover [...]

At a time when many author tours and media appearances have been canceled or rescheduled, one author seems to be in greater demand than ever. It's Harold S. Kushner, whose [...]

Also making its second appearance on PW's charts is The Blue Last, Martha Grimes's 17th mystery to star Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury. Grimes, whose previous Jury title, The Lamorna [...]

Following a three-week run last year on PW's nonfiction list, Paris to the Moon now makes its second appearance on our trade paperback chart--and this week we've got the publisher [...]

In this column on September 17, we wrote about Jonathan Franzen's literary blockbuster, The Corrections--stellar reviews, movie sale, author profiles ad infinitum, etc. So what more, one might ask, can [...]

Stephen Ambrose's latest bestseller, The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, returns to familiar territory--chronicling the experiences of WWII veterans. This time, instead of [...]

Workman has just delivered the 10-millionth copy of its landmark backlist bestseller, What to Expect When You're Expecting. About 17 years ago, a mother--Arlene Eisenberg--land her two daughters--Heidi Murkoff and [...]

Suspense author Robert Crais follows the success of last year's bestselling Demolition Angel (his first standalone, following his eight widely praised Elvis Cole novels) with Hostage, which was published by [...]

This is the second time Clive Cussler has hit the #1 spot on the hardcover charts after just one week in the stores; Valhalla Rising is the 16th in his [...]

Books about geology rarely appear on the national charts, but British journalist Simon Winchester has done just that with The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth [...]

Tyndale's eighth installment in its wildly successful Left Behind series, The Mark by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, landed on our trade paperback chart last week with one million [...]

Well, bestseller veteran Catherine Coulter was almost able to knock James Patterson out of the #1 spot, but Hemlock Bay had to settle for #2-the author's first time in that [...]

Stephen E. Ambrose served as the historical consultant on Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, the 1998 blockbuster starring Tom Hanks. Now the three are together again for another WWII film, [...]

Last October, when Oprah chose Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz as her book club pick, the first novelist went on to enjoy a 12-week tenure on PW's charts, two weeks [...]

Back in 1997, former Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham's memoir, Personal History, had a 15-week run on PW's hardcover charts and an eight-week trade paperback stay a year later. Graham's [...]

E. Lynn Harris's previous novel, Not a Day Goes By, spent nine weeks on PWs list last summer (two of those at #1); at its close, a Broadway diva was [...]

Perhaps we could have foreseen this week's sole nonfiction debut, as it's by a renowned psychic--and a veteran of national bestseller lists. Sylvia Browne's Past Lives, Future Healing: A Psychic [...]

The third fiction newcomer on this week's list, Putnam's Dead Sleep, shares with Hornby's novel not only a pub date but number of copies in print: 85,000. Author Greg lles's [...]

In his novels High Fidelity and Fever Pitch, he's made being a fan a respectable obsession (for music and sports, respectively), so it seems appropriate that author Nick Hornby's personal [...]

As noted last week in this space, there is a slew of books coming about the controversial 2000 Presidential elections. Yet another book on the subject making the bestseller charts [...]

That would be Bantam Books and sister company Delacorte Press--both placed new books on the charts this week. Landing in the fifth spot this week is Elizabeth George's 11th mystery, [...]

...are looking especially rosy at this point, as Neil Gaiman's American Gods has been garnering excellent reviews and is being supported by publisher Morrow's aggressive and innovative marketing campaign. Thanks [...]

Dominick Dunne's latest bestseller, Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments, collects some of his high-profile Vanity Press features spanning more than 20 years. Included are essays about murders still in the [...]

...to the bank. David Sedaris's collection of humorous essays, Me Talk Pretty One Day (PWs starred review dubbed him 'Garrison Keillor's evil twin'), is doing very well in its paperback [...]

It's lucky #7 for Iris Johansen. Her latest suspense, Final Target, is her seventh national bestseller in a row; #6, The Search, has so far enjoyed a run of six [...]

...it's over, is just one of the many aphorisms coined by baseball legend Yogi Berra. (His reply when asked about a celebrated restaurant: 'No one ever goes there any more, [...]

Sue Grafton's 16th Kinsey Millhone, P Is for Peril, is Putnam's first in the bestselling alphabet mystery series and the publisher gets an E for excellent effort, having landed the [...]

Bestselling romance author Lisa Kleypas is having her best opening run on the national bestseller charts. Her new Avon title, Suddenly You, lands at #2 on the mass market charts [...]

'If you're going to read this, don't bother.' Evidently a number of people are disregarding this caveat, the opening sentence of Chuck (Fight Club) Palahniuk's Choke, which marks its second [...]

With no plans in the works to publish a paperback edition of Tuesdays with Morrie, we may be a bit premature in marking the end of an amazingly long run [...]

In his latest career incarnation, newscaster Tom Brokaw recently added a third bestseller to his impressive literary track record. The Greatest Generation, published by Random House in 1998, spent 69 [...]

John Sanford's popular Prey series has another hit-book #12, Chosen Prey, lands in the #2 spot on the fiction list with 470,500 copies in print. The author is currently on [...]

Judging from the sales figures of several new bestsellers, books replaced the traditional flower arrangement for countless moms this Mother's Day. Four books with the word 'mom' or 'mother' in [...]

We're going way out on a limb with this prediction, but here goes: Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, which made our nonfiction list for one week (Apr. [...]

A Baltimore woman whose family business is throwing parties in her crumbling 19th-century townhouse suddenly asks herself if she has turned into the wrong person. With this intriguing premise, Anne [...]

A nonfiction title marking its second week on the list and a fiction new arrival have something in common--their authors surnames. A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan [...]

For Elizabeth Peters's latest Amelia Peabody caper, Lord of the Silent, Morrow began a month-by-month sales campaign last January, when the author mailed postcards from Egypt to booksellers and media [...]

A familiar name to romance readers, Jude Deveraux, is making two debuts on this week's lists in a Pocket Books double play. Her latest hardcover, The Summerhouse, was published on [...]

Following the old adage, one could say that the third time's a charm for Suzanne Somers's diet book #3. One could say it, that is, if it weren't for the [...]

Clark's Spark Marks...the #1 spot. You can set your bestseller clock each spring for a new Mary Higgins Clark winner. The bestselling mystery author regularly lands a book on the [...]

Winning the Pulitzer Prize almost always offers more than just literary glory. It can also have a very strong effect on a book's bottom line. Three of the 2001 winners [...]

It appears that Rush is not the only noted member of the Limbaugh clan: brother David--lawyer, political commentator and nationally syndicated columnist--has joined the ranks of bestselling authors with Absolute [...]

That would be Sticks and Scones, the 10th novel from culinary mystery author Diane Mott Davidson to feature Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz and her mouthwatering recipes. In an innovative marketing [...]

If further evidence is needed of Oprah Winfrey's bookselling clout (duh), we offer the case of The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams. [...]

It's no surprise to see Stephen King land on the top of the charts the first week out with a new bestseller. And indeed, his latest, Dreamcatcher, does just that. [...]

With sales off to the fastest start of any Robert B. Parker novel to date--and that covers nearly 30 years--Potshot, his new Spenser adventure, started with a 170,000-copy first printing. [...]

Not only has Nora Roberts grabbed our unofficial crown for 'most prolific author for the fourth year in a row' ('Bestsellers of 2000,' Mar. 19), she's currently claiming two spots [...]

Kensington is sure that Plain Jane by Fern Michaels is its first fiction hardcover to appear on PWs list, and the house is almost sure that it is the author's [...]

Would it surprise you to learn that Americans will spend over $110 billion this year on fast food--more than they'll spend on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos and recorded music [...]