The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.

* Frank Herbert, critically acclaimed, science fiction author of the best-selling science fiction novel of all time: Dune

A prime example is Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ); based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, the best-selling of all the hardboiled authors, here the protagonist is a private eye, Mike Hammer.

The novel is on the list of best-selling books.

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 ).

In 2011, Digweed's music was featured in the film movie adaptation of Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.

The first all stop motion 3D feature is Coraline ( 2009 ), based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling novel and directed by Henry Selick.

In 2008, The Chemical Brothers ' music was featured in a movie adaption of Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.

It is based on Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel.

* June 18 – The film The Nun's Story, based on the best-selling novel, is released.

His best-selling novel, Ağır Roman is going to be translated to French by Actes Sud in 2010.

In 1833 Balzac released Eugénie Grandet, his first best-selling novel.

* In The Long Ships or Red Orm ( original title: Röde Orm ), a best-selling Swedish novel written by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson, the plot takes place some decades later-a large part of it in the court of the aging Harald, shortly before the outbreak of the rebellion of his son Swen.

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 screenplay, written by Lowell Ganz, is based on the best-selling novel by Billie Letts.

Chair had sold the licensing of Empire to Card, which became a best-selling novel.

Numerous science fiction stories and novels center around an impact event ; possibly the best-selling was the novel Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible.

The novel's creation and use of common stereotypes about African Americans is significant because Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel in the world during the 19th century.

Even though Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, far more Americans of that time saw the story as a stage play or musical than read the book.

The film, which was Ronald Reagan's most notable role during his early acting career at Warner Brothers, was adapted by Casey Robinson from a best-selling 1940 novel of the same name by Henry Bellamann.

This new interest is also reflected in literature, most notably by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ’ s best-selling romantic novel “ Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise ” ( 1761 ).

Nolte first gained national attention and critical acclaim for his performance in Rich Man, Poor Man, a 1976 television miniseries based on Irwin Shaw's 1970 best-selling novel.

He also illustrated several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens ( 1875 ), Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick ( 1882 ), and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1887 ).

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.

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.

In this radio format, disc-jockeys would select one of a set of the forty best-selling singles ( usually in a rack ) as rated by Billboard magazine or from the station's own chart of the local top selling songs.

A new record contract with Columbia produced Ellington's best-selling LP Ellington at Newport and yielded six years of recording stability under producer Irving Townsend, who coaxed both commercial and artistic productions from Ellington.

Estimates of their album sales generally range from 150 million to 300 million albums, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists.

In August 1999 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone topped the New York Times list of best-selling fiction, and stayed near the top of the list for much of 1999 and 2000, until the New York Times split its list into children's and adult sections under pressure from other publishers who were eager to see their books given higher placings.

Miranda teamed with the famous Andrews Sisters three times from 1948-1950 to produce three Decca singles, the first one, " Cuanto La Gusta ", being the most popular ( a best-selling record and a number-twelve Billboard hit ).

Robinson's compositions for the band in 1920, the classic " Margie ", " Singin ' the Blues ", and " Palesteena ( Lena from Palesteena )", released as a 78, were among the most popular and best-selling hits of 1920.

Although nearly one million copies were sold when the game was first released in August 1995, making it the best-selling Sierra adventure game created, the game received only mixed reviews from industry critics.

In his best-selling 2001 book Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Eric Schlosser leveled a broad, socioeconomic critique against the fast food industry, documenting how fast food rose from small, family-run businesses ( like the McDonald brothers ' burger joint ) into large, multinational corporate juggernauts whose economies of scale radically transformed agriculture, meat processing, and labor markets in the late twentieth century.

He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known Big Bands.

The major national newspapers are from Buenos Aires, including the centrist Clarín, the best-selling daily in Latin America and the second most widely circulated in the Spanish-speaking world.

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.

The study concluded that lesser-known writers get the biggest benefit from being on the list, while perennial best-selling authors such as Danielle Steel or John Grisham see no benefit of additional sales.

Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States.

It was directed by Otto Preminger and adapted by Wendell Mayes from the best-selling novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver.

In the world of literature, Wimbledon provides the principal setting for several comic novels by author Nigel Williams ( including the best-selling The Wimbledon Poisoner and They Came from SW19 ) as well as for Elisabeth Beresford's series of children's stories about the Wombles.

" In Another Land was Norman's best-selling album ever, and had the best reception of any of his albums from the Christian establishment.

* Betty Mahmoody, lecturer, advocate for the rights of women and children, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated, best-selling book, Not Without My Daughter: Escape from Iran.

* Dale Brown – best-selling military techno-thriller novelist, graduated from Grand Island High School 1974

Frank Zappa's album Hot Rats, one of his best-selling, was a purely instrumental rock album ( with the exception of Willie the Pimp, featuring vocals from Captain Beefheart ).