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ARTS / LITERATURE
List: Top 10 Bestselling Books in USA in 2005
Date: January 2006
Source: Nielsen BookScan
Base: All book sales during the year from authorised booksellers.
Notes: Sorry, no data on number of sales but we do know that the number one bestselling book ('Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince') sold over 4 million units on the first day alone (!) and that the number two ('A Million Little Pieces'), sold 1,769,000 units in the year.
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Book
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Author
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Publisher
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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J K Rowling
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Arthur A. Levine
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A Million Little Pieces
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J Frey
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Anchor
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The Kite Runner
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K Hosseini
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Riverhead
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1776
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D McCullough
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Simon & Schuster
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The Da Vinci Code
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D Brown
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Doubleday
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The World Is Flat
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T L Friedman
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Farrar Straus Giroux
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The Purpose-Driven Life
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R Warren
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Zondervan
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Angels & Demons
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D Brown
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Pocket Star
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You: The Owner's Manual
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M Oz
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HarperCollins
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Eldest
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C Paolini
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Knopf
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