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ARTS / LITERATURE
List: Top Ten Bestselling Paperback Books in UK in 2008
Date: January 2009
Source: The Bookseller
Base: All book sales during the year from authorised booksellers in UK.
Notes: Taken from The Booksellers Hot 100 list - full breakdown and associated commentary here, with publisher details. The top 10 best selling paperback was 'No Time for Goodbye' by Canadian author Linwood Barclay.
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Book
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Author
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Unit Sales
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No Time for Goodbye
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S Meyer
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643,225
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The Forgotten Garden
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Kate Morton
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396,792
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On Chesil Beach
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Ian McEwan
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391,605
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This Year it Will be Different
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Maeve Binchy
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385,780
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Book of the Dead
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Patricia Cornwell
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359,303
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak
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352,299
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The Outcast
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Sadie Jones
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306,371
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The Appeal
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John Grisham
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306,230
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Engleby
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Sebastian Faulks
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305,623
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini
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301,975
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