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It was not the exit that Charles Schulz had in mind when he chose February 13 as the last appearance for his 50-year-old Peanuts cartoon strip. His death one day [...]

Oprah's 30th book club pick (announced on February 17) is Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune, published by HarperCollins last October. The novel enjoyed a four-week stint on PW's bestseller chart [...]

Penguin was extremely busy last month with goings-on in the town of Mitford, N.C. That's the setting, of course, for Jan Karons exceptionally popular Mitford series; the publisher estimates that [...]

William Safire jokingly reminds people that Scandalmonger is not his new autobiography--it's a historical novel from Simon & Schuster that debuts at #14 on our fiction list. In his 24th [...]

For the last 10 years or so, retailers-not to mention Doubleday-eagerly wait for the opening week of the latest John Grisham. He's the only fiction author who can be launched [...]

Well, now she's done it. Hillary has announced her candidacy for New York State senator, making her the first First Lady to seek elected office. All this is good news [...]

The folks at Dutton are thrilled by the reception with which critics and customers are greeting its new novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, which debuts at #15 on PWs [...]

After about three years on the national charts with The Millionaire Next Door in hardcover and paperback, Andrews McMeel is gearing up for big numbers for the follow-up book by [...]

Houghton Mifflin isn't the only publisher with a successful title about Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter (see last week's Behind the Bestsellers); St. Martin's/Griffin has a title that's storming the stores as [...]

In Jeffrey Toobin's latest bestseller, A Vast Conspiracy, the subtitle tells the tale: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President. (That would be Bill [...]

Trotting along the political track--and moving to #15 on our nonfiction list--brings us to Stickin': The Case for Loyalty, published on January 18 by Simon & Schuster (first printing: 90,000). [...]

Along with the perennial appeal of a gripping, true-to-life story, the power of movies, movie stars and award shows is being amply demonstrated by the, success of Houghton Mifflin's Hurricane: [...]

The folks at Picador are justifiably proud of their paperback reprint of The Hoursunot only is Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel marking its second week on our list (the FSG [...]

The three titles debuting on our hardcover fiction list this week have more than their bestseller status in common: they've all been published, within the last three weeks, by Putnam. [...]

Oprah's done it again. Last Tuesday the book maven of the airwaves announced the 29th selection of her justly celebrated book club--it is Gap Creek by Robert Morgan. Set in [...]

On both hardcover charts, a new book takes the lead after just one week on sale. In fiction, Nelson DeMille's 10th novel, The Lion's Game roars into first place. The [...]

Q. What do Southwest Airlines, Mercedes Benz and the Bank of Hawaii have in common? A. They all bought their employees copies of Who Moved My Cheese?, which marks its [...]

Nothing brightens a harsh winter day more than the thought of a restful trip to Florida. Unless, of course, you're a character in a Carl Hiaasen novel. His latest, Sick [...]

In anticipation of the forthcoming movie of one of the bestselling memoirs of all times, Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Touchstone has published two movie tie-in editions--amass market at $7 and [...]

According to the folks at Berkley, a Nora Roberts novel is sold every five minutes to a customer in the U.S. That pace might have been even quicker these past [...]

Get ready for another instant bestseller: Ms. Winfrey has just announced the latest selection (#29) of her on-air book club--the last for this millennium. It's A Map of the World [...]

A PW boxed, starred review of Anita Shreve's latest novel, Fortune's Rocks, noted that 'In what surely will be a milestone in her career, Shreve has produced a literary novel [...]

Bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon is back on the charts with River Horse, #12 on PW's list with 170,000 copies in print after three trips to press; Houghton Mifflin's first [...]

A shocking murder plot forms the core of today's new #1 fiction bestseller, as a powerful cabal of CIA agents plans to knock off a major government witness. Saving Faith, [...]

Yet another shocking murder--this one combined with a seemingly perfect theft--is the catalyst that re-unites Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn in Tony Hillerman's Hunting Badger, which debuts at #6 on [...]

It looks like a very good holiday season for illustrated gift books. Already there are three higher-price tomes right below the top 15 nonfiction bestsellers this week, and this activity [...]

'Pokemania' has officially taken the book world by storm. Of Borders' top 100 children's titles for October, 23 of them were Pokemon books. Golden Books shipped its first Pokemon title [...]

Norton scores a double play on our charts this week, as The New New Thing debuts on the nonfiction list and Blue at the Mizzen climbs to #11 from its [...]

Does this item have a certain ring of familiarity? Last Wednesday, Oprah Winfrey created yet another bestseller, when she announced Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay as the 28th selection [...]

It must be a record: thanks to Oprah, six diet-related titles are debuting on our charts. On October 4, the influential hostess had as her guests Dr. Richard Heller and [...]

'When I was seventeen, my life changed forever.' So begins A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks, which centers around a teenage boy in Beaufort, N.C., in 1958--and which hits [...]

First it was Anita Shreve's The Pilot's Wife, then Janet Fitch's White Oleander, and now Little, Brown has scored a third time in seven months. Last Thursday, that literary lioness [...]

Although superstar author Scott Turow maintains his law career, he said, it's not 'to develop new material for my books--practice has already given me stories enough for a lifetime.' Not [...]

Landing at #2 on the nonfiction list is Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, a work that has come under strong criticism for what publisher Random House is calling 'literary [...]

While couch potato jocks are fixated on the baseball season's dramatic closing weeks, reading jocks seem to be quickly making When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by [...]

Richard Paul Evans boasts figures that few writers can claim--more than 10 million copies worldwide with translations into 17 languages for five titles (including his first, The Christmas Box). Back [...]

Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible was so popular with reading groups that HarperCollins wanted to maximize that selling quality for the Flamingo trade paper edition, which debuts this week in [...]

'Tis the bestselling court that Frank McCourt is leading, both on the trade paper list with his first book, Angela's Ashes, and the nonfiction hardcover charts with 'Tis: A Memoir. [...]

McCourt isn't the only writer from the Emerald Isle to grace this week's charts. Following the success of his 1993 Booker Prize winner, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle [...]

St. Martin's launched Stephen Coonts's seventh national bestseller, Cuba, with a 250,000-copy first printing, national radio ads and airport dioramas. Former naval aviator Coonts has made his many fans happy--his [...]

Running Press is very excited about the latest success for its Running Press Miniature Editions. The series landed two books on the London Sunday Times list during these summer months--star [...]

'If you're going to read one Diana book, this should be it.' So said Newsweek in its August 23 review of Diana in Search of Herself, published by Times Books [...]

The Dalai Lama's visit to the U.S.--beginning with a four-day visit in New York City, August 11-15--dovetailed perfectly with Riverhead's August 2 publication of Ethics for the New Millennium (see [...]

PW's monthly religion bestseller charts this week include three new titles from Broadway Books: one hardcover, Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch by Lama Surya Das, [...]

Five new fiction hardcover titles made the top 15 list this week, with two more coming in at #16 and #17--HarperCollins's Worst Fears Realized by Stuart Woods and Doubleday's Cuba [...]

...as the 1955 Sammy Cahn song observed, 'Go together like a horse and carriage.' Well, sometimes. Readers can form their own opinions about one especially noted pairing with Bill and [...]

In this space last week, we noted Crown's newest bestseller, about women who've achieved success in their careers. We evidently got our verbs confused, however: the correct title is See [...]

In the wake of the tragic death of John F. Kennedy Jr., it seems likely that a number of books about him and his celebrated family will begin appearing--or reappearing--on [...]

Like many bestselling authors, Gary Zukav is forever grateful to--you guessed it--Oprah. His book, The Seat of the Soul, was published in paperback by Fireside in 1990, When Oprah began [...]

For several weeks now, Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible by Dave Pelz with James A. Frank has been hovering below the top 15 nonfiction hardcovers. Published by Broadway Books in [...]