He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist ( 2001 ).

, Dungeons & Dragons remained the best-known and best-selling role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US $ 1 billion in book and equipment sales.

He later wrote a best-selling book about his experiences called Papillon.

Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

The book was a success, becoming the best-selling children's book of the year.

The book was the best-selling children's book for two years after its initial publication.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

The mysterious deaths, murder conviction of Duane (“ Buck ”) Walker ( aka Wesley G. Walker ) and acquittal of his girlfriend, Stephanie Stearns, made headlines nationwide and led to a best-selling account written by Stearns's defense attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, and Bruce B. Henderson in the true crime book And the Sea Will Tell.

In 1975, Moody wrote the best-selling book Life After Life and in 1977 he wrote a second book, Reflections on Life After Life.

Scott teamed up again with Gladiator star Russell Crowe, for A Good Year, based on the best-selling book by Peter Mayle about an investment banker who finds a new life in Provence.

This is documented in an updated later edition to Dan Shaughnessy's best-selling book, Curse of the Bambino.

Soviet astronomer Iosif Shklovskii wrote the pioneering book in the field Universe, Life, Intelligence ( 1962 ), which was expanded upon by American astronomer Carl Sagan as the best-selling Intelligent Life in the Universe ( 1966 ).

In March 2009, British family care activist and a best-selling novelist Erin Pizzey reportedly declined to comment on the temporary withdrawal by its publishers of the book Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain following her complaint it had falsely linked her to The Angry Brigade.

Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in Jack L. Warner's Brushfire ( 1961 ), and Marshall Thompson's A Yank in Viet-Nam ( 1964 ) and To the Shores of Hell ( 1966 ), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any Vietnam War films with the exception of John Wayne's The Green Berets based on the best-selling book by Robin Moore and using the theme song " Ballad of the Green Berets ".

Gelbart-scripted films for television included Barbarians at the Gate ( 1993 ), a true story about the battle for control of the RJR Nabisco corporation starring James Garner that was based on the best-selling book of that name ; Weapons of Mass Distraction ( 1997 ) starring Ben Kingsley and Gabriel Byrne as rival media moguls and And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself ( 2003 ) starring Antonio Banderas as the Mexican revolutionary leader.

It allegedly became the best-selling German book after World War II.

It became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and is considered " the most influential Christian book of the ...

The book reached the top of the New York Times list of best-selling fiction in August 1999, and stayed near the top of that list for much of 1999 and 2000.

* Terry Wiles, born with phocomelia of both arms and legs, has become known internationally through the television drama On Giant's Shoulders and the best-selling book of the same name

* Woodward, Bob and Bernstein, Carl wrote a best-selling book based on their experiences covering the Watergate Scandal for the Washington Post titled All the President's Men, published in 1974.

The Population Bomb is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich ( who was uncredited ), in 1968.

Linebarger was long rumored to have been the original for " Kirk Allen ," the fantasy-haunted subject of " The Jet-Propelled Couch ," a chapter in psychologist Robert M. Lindner's best-selling 1954 collection, The Fifty-Minute Hour.

Both musicians also sampled Brown's work, with Hammer having sampled the rhythms from " Super Bad " for his song, " Here Comes the Hammer ", from his best-selling work, Please Hammer, Don't Hurt ' Em.

Forgotten for centuries by the outside world, although not by locals, it was brought back to international attention by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham III, who rediscovered it in 1911 and wrote a best-selling work about it.

It became one of Porsche's best-selling models, and the relative cheapness of building the car made it both profitable and fairly easy for Porsche to finance.

He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades.

Stephen R. Lawhead, born, is a best-selling United Kingdom based American writer known for his works of fantasy, science fiction, and more recently, historical fiction, particularly Celtic historical fiction.

Credited for being the pioneers that paved the way for the commercial breakthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s, their debut album, Spice, sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in music history.

After Strummer's departure, the remaining seven Pogues recorded Waiting for Herb, which contained the band's third and final top twenty single, " Tuesday Morning ", which became their best-selling single internationally.

In the United States, it outsold Gundam on video tape, and the first volume of the English DVD release of The Vision of Escaflowne was the fourth best-selling anime DVD for the month of September 2000.

Like GM, it too had a stale model lineup ( except for the best-selling minivans ) that was largely based on the aging K-car platform.

The Honda Accord vied with the Taurus most years for being the best-selling car in the United States during the early part of the decade.

* March 12 – Hank Ketcham's best-selling comic strip Dennis the Menace, appeared in newspapers across the U. S. for the first time.

In late 1994, a finished version 386BSD Release 1. 0 was distributed by Dr. Dobb's Journal on CDROM only due to the immense size ( 600 MB ) of the release ( the " 386BSD Reference CD-ROM ") and was a best-selling CDROM for three years ( 1994 – 1997 ).

Marketed as a slightly more upscale competitor to the ubiquitous Ford Model T, it pioneered or made standard many features later taken for granted: all-steel body construction ( the vast majority of cars worldwide still used wood-framing under steel panels, though Stoneleigh and BSA used steel bodies as early as 1911 ); 12-volt electrical system ( 6-volt systems would remain the norm until the 1950s ); 35 horsepower ( versus the Model T's 20 ), and sliding-gear transmission ( the best-selling Model T would retain an antiquated planetary design until its demise in 1927 ).

Dodge also offered a cargo version of its best-selling Caravan for many years, at first calling it the Mini Ram Van ( a name originally applied to short-wheelbase B-Series Ram Vans ) and later dubbing it the Caravan C / V ( for " Cargo Van ").

* Wally Lamb, best-selling author of She's Come Undone and Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You.

Robert Wright ( born 1957 ) is an American journalist, scholar, and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information.

The year 2003 saw Winchester release another book on the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, The Meaning of Everything, as well as the best-selling Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded.

The best-selling anti-slavery novel from the 19th century is Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852.

Attesting the team's popularity, DC Comics published the best-selling The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comic books from 1952 to 1957, after which DC featured Lewis solo in The Adventures of Jerry Lewis until 1971.

Leslie Stephen, in a best-selling book first published in 1871, defined the Alps as “ the Playground of Europe .” The book highlights the incredible success of the mountains but it also reflects the tensions that emerged among their visitors.

In July 2007, the W. W. Norton Company published The Lincoln Highway, Coast-to-Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate: The Great American Road Trip by Michael Wallis, best-selling author of Route 66, and voice in the movie Cars, and Michael Williamson, twice a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer with The Washington Post.

A New Kind of Science is a best-selling, award-winning, controversial book by Stephen Wolfram, published in 2002.

The Passover Plot ( ISBN 1-85230-836-2 ) is the name of a controversial, best-selling 1965 book, by British Biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield who has also published a translation of the New Testament informed with a Jewish perspective.

Religious writer Margaret Barber ( 1869 – 1901 ), author of the posthumously published best-selling book of meditations, The Roadmender, settled in Bungay.

Aldous Huxley ’ s best-selling novel Brave New World, about a future society based on eugenics, was published in 1932.

At this point he returned to Sweden for a number of years and wrote The Story of San Michele ( published in 1929 ), which was well received, having been translated into at least forty-five languages and said to be one of the best-selling books of the 20th century.

The Bible Code is a best-selling book by Michael Drosnin, first published in 1997.

Simon is one of the UK's best-selling children's writers ; she has published over 50 different books, including the immensely popular Horrid Henry series, which has now sold over eighteen million copies.

First published in 1979, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess became a best-selling book about Neopagan belief and practice.

, published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005, is a series of internationally best-selling console role-playing video game ( RPG ) titles created by Yuji Horii and his studio, Armor Project.

At about the same time a selection of his poems was published, along with work from Adrian Henri and Brian Patten, in a best-selling paperback volume of verse entitled The Mersey Sound, first published in 1967, revised in 1983 and again in 2007.

Robbins has published two best-selling books, Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within.

By 1985, Erma Bombeck's three weekly columns were being published by 900 newspapers in the U. S. and Canada, and were also being anthologized into a series of best-selling books.

In 1906, Parker Brothers published the game Rook, their most successful card game to this day and it quickly became the best-selling game in the country.

First published by Fantagraphics in 1990 it ran for 30 issues, and was one of the best-selling alternative comics of the 1990s, at its height selling 30, 000 copies an issue.

First published by Fantagraphics in 1990 it ran for 30 issues, and was one of alternative comics best-selling titles.

Also in 1984, Rivers published a best-selling humor book, The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abramowitz, a mock memoir of her brassy, loose comedy character.

The most famous chronicler of true crime trials in English history is the amateur criminologist William Roughead, a Scots lawyer who between 1889 and 1949 attended every murder trial of significance held in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, and wrote of them in essays published first in such journals as The Juridical Review and subsequently collected in best-selling books with such titles as Malice Domestic, The Evil That Men Do, What Is Your Verdict ?, In Queer Street, Rogues Walk Here, Knave's Looking Glass, Mainly Murder, Murder and More Murder, Nothing But Murder, and many more ….