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ARTS / LITERATURE
List: Top 10 Bestselling Books in USA in 2008
Date: January 2009
Source: BookScan
Base: All book sales during the year from authorised booksellers.
Notes: Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series dominated the Bookscan top 50 list and had four entries in the top ten. Not on the list but worth a mention was Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' was only released in November and managed to sell 420,000 copies in less than two months.
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Book
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Author
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Unit Sales
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Breaking Dawn
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S Meyer
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3,310,000
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Twilight
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S Meyer
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3,175,000
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A New Earth
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E Tolle
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3,146,000
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The Last Lecture
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R Pausch
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2,705,000
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New Moon
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S Meyer
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2,667,000
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Eclipse
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S Meyer
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2,563,000
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The Shack
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W Young
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2,551,000
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The Tales of Beedle the Bard
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JK Rowling
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1,822,000
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Brisingr
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C Paolini
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1,312,000
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Eat, Pray, Love
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E Gilbert
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1,274,000
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