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Still another second-week tenant on our fiction chart is megaseller Clive Cussler's second installment in his series from the files of the National Underwater and Marine Agency-Blue Gold: A Novel [...]

It's the second time this summer that St. Martins has had a fiction bestseller land in the #1 spot after just one week in the stores. Back on July 3, [...]

In reprinting the July Evangelical Christian Bestseller list (see page 212, which, at the time of this writing, is already on press); we made several errors. Payne Stewart should be [...]

Linda Howard's at it again. Her latest Pocket Books hardcover, Mr. Perfect (pub date: July 25), becomes this popular author's sixth novel to hit our lists--Shades of Twilight started the [...]

Nathaniel Philbrick's father, a college English professor with a specialty in American sea fiction, used to regale his two sons with the vivid story of an 85-foot whale that sank [...]

It's a big week for mass market, with seven books making a first appearance, six in the top 10. Taking the #1 spot is Patricia Cornwell's Black Notice. Cornwell often [...]

Dutton's latest bestseller is Life on the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife by Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison, which marks its second week on PW's nonfiction list [...]

What's cooking? You'd better check carefully, cautions chef Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, which was published by Bloomsbury USA on May 22. The wickedly funny memoir/expos[acute{e}], which has 133,000 copies [...]

Mystery maven Kathy Reichs debuts on our fiction list today with her third novel, Deadly Decisions, which was introduced by Scribner in March with a special magazine editors' luncheon. (The [...]

Talk about an 'overnight success.' In October 1997, The Red Tent, a debut novel by Anita Diamant, was published in hardcover by St. Martin's; a trade paperback was released a [...]

'When his life came to a sudden and tragic end on October 25, 1999, Payne Stewart was at the top of his game on every level.' Thus begins the jacket [...]

It was only a few months ago, April 17 to be exact, that the folks at Rodale were popping champagne corks in celebration of the house's first national bestseller in [...]

It's a first for Janet Evanovich: reaching the coveted #1 spot--for Hot Six--on the fiction hardcover list after just one week in the stores. In fact, it's the first time [...]

It's nice to report that author David Sedaris has evidently joined the ranks of the clothed--following the April 1997 appearance of his Naked on PW's nonfiction list. Now the author [...]

In his latest book--and first Civil War-set novel in more than a decade--megaselling author John Jakes once again proves himself 'the foremost historical novelist of our national conflict.' So said [...]

Stop the presses! Or rather, start them up! Last Friday, Oprah announced selection #35 for her celebrated on-air book club. It's Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, a national bestseller that [...]

It's been a very good run for Iris Johansen, with five consecutive million-copy-plus suspense bestsellers (that figure includes paper and hardcover books). Number six, The Search, looks like it will [...]

One thing about James Patterson--he was fast out of the gate. At 27, he wrote The Thomas Berryman Number; it won an Edgar Award for best first mystery novel. He [...]

Organizational expert Julie Morgenstern should have no trouble organizing the many activities on her already busy plate. She recently completed her third one-hour appearance on Oprah, this time for a [...]

Another HarperCollins title, The Perfect Storm, has taken up residence--for a second time--on the mass market side of PWs lists. Sebastian Junger's 1997 book enjoyed a 38-week run on our [...]

'Captures America's modern political landscape from headline--hungry TV anchors to mudslinging candidates.' No, it's not a media story--though it certainly has the ring of familiarity. That timely tagline is from [...]

Hitting the national bestseller charts (#7 on PWs list this week) is the best-case scenario for The Worst-Case Scenario Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht. Apparently, there are lots [...]

Melissa Bank is scoring very well with her trade paper edition of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing. To date, the Penguin edition has 300,000 copies in print after [...]

Two Houghton Mifflin titles currently garnering critical acclaim (and spots on several bestseller lists) are by authors of very different reputations--think old school and new school. With The Human Stain, [...]

Sue Miller's bestseller While I Was Gone is the latest novel to be Oprahized. Last Friday (May 26), Oprah chose the book as her #34 on-air club title, thus guaranteeing [...]

Michael Ondaatje, author of the critically acclaimed The English Patient, recently concluded the U.K. and Canadian tours for his latest novel, Anil's Ghost (#13 in its third appearance on our [...]

According to Longstreet publisher. Scott Bard, No Such Thing As a Bad Day is 'part memoir, part cancer survival story, which recounts the adventures and personal struggles of former White [...]

'When the first man woke up that morning, he wasn't thinking about killing anyone.' This typically tantalizing opening gets John Sandford's Easy Prey off to a swift start--reflecting the rapid [...]

Yet another crackerjack sleuth with his own series is Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic forensic criminalist who starred most recently in The Bone Collector (seven weeks on PW's list [...]

To judge from a trio of forthcoming releases, the old saw 'A woman's work is never done' might, with a New Age twist, metamorphose into 'A goddess's work is never [...]

As if more evidence were needed of Oprah's influence, sharp-eyed readers of this week's bestsellers will notice that Sarah Ban Breath-nach's Simple Abundance is back after an absence of about [...]

'The only way to sell a superb literary first novel is word-of-mouth,' said Atlantic Monthly Press publisher Morgan Entrekin about Jeffrey Lent's In the Fall, and his strategy is clearly [...]

Moving up our nonfiction list--to #3 in its second week--is Ten Things I Wish I'd Known--Before I Went Out into the Real World by Maria Shriver. (The NBC anchorwoman is [...]

Oprah's 33rd selection for her on-air book club--announced last Thursday--is, she claims, 'in my top five of all time.' It's also the first time that the same author has been [...]

Also marking its second week on our lists--nonfiction, in this case--is a memoir with which the title mavens clearly had a great time: Cybill Disobedience: Howl Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, [...]

Nearly a decade after Vintage's 1991 publication of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis's controversial satire of 80s greed and inconspicuous consumption has once again captured the spotlight with the April [...]

Two Bantam hardcovers that share an April 4 pub date are each marking their second appearance on our fiction list--Amanda Quick's Wicked Widow and Michael Palmer's The Patient. Quick, as [...]

In the trade paperback section of our April 10 feature on 1999 bestsellers, we inadvertently omitted The carbohydrate Addict's Lifespan Program by Dr. Richard F. Heller and Dr. Rachael F. [...]

Last year's top-selling author in both hardcover and mass market, John Grisham, (see bestseller feature package beginning on page 40) steps down from the top rung on this week's charts [...]

It looks as though Hollywood has once again helped propel a book onto the bestseller charts--not that this one needed much help. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby's funny, astute debut novel, [...]

In Christian fiction, almost all of the top-selling hardcover, paperback and children's books were released by Tyndale, and almost all were written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. In hardcover [...]

The publisher lands a new novel on the hardcover fiction list and a new self-help title on nonfiction. Stephen Harrigan's The Gates of the Alamo was launched with a 60,000 [...]

Hailed as 'the female John Grisham' by People magazine, bestselling author Lisa Scottoline has six critically acclaimed legal thrillers under her belt, including the Edgar Award-winning Final Appeal. Her seventh, [...]

It looks like Nora Roberts will once again be the author with the most new bestsellers in one year. Two books go on the list week--Carolina Moon and Witness to [...]

Romance pundits of a certain age remember the impact that Kathleen E. Woodiwiss's first historical romance, The Flame and the Flower, had on the category--it has been back to press [...]

John Grisham's The Brethren continues to outsell all other bestsellers by significant margins. It's outselling the Harry Potters by three to one and it's outselling the second hardcover fiction The [...]

Life Strategist Philip McGraw has benefited by his relationship with Oprah, who credits the author with helping her win her beef trial in Texas. He enjoyed a full hour on [...]

How many households in America can claim two best-selling authors under one roof? After the success of We Are Our Mothers' Daughters (13 weeks on our nonfiction list), Cokie Roberts [...]

What do authors Pat Conroy, John Berendt, Anne Rivers Siddons, Bret Lott and Fern Michaels have in common? In addition to their own impressive track records, each has penned glowing [...]

It's true that the title is First Lady, but this newcomer to our mass market chart is no tell-all or expose--Susan Elizabeth Phillips's novel centers around an assassinated president's widow [...]