* Lauren Weisberger, author of the 2003 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada

His 15 novels and non-fiction books were frequently critical of the Vatican, and has been described as revealing an obsession with Satanism ( including the 1976 bestseller, " Hostage to the Devil ").

The result, Devil May Care, became an immediate bestseller in the UK, selling 44, 093 hardback copies within 4 days of release.

Witnessing the commercial success of hard-core pornographic films, such as Deep Throat and The Devil In Miss Jones, which broke through to the mainstream, Klein saw similar potential in Pauline Réage's bestseller The Story Of O, but Jodorowsky walked out on the deal.

Richler has published one novel, Kicking Tomorrow ( 1991 ), a bestseller in Canada for 13 weeks, which was named one of New York Times Book Review ’ s Best Books of 1992.

The book debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in August 1992, and slowly climbed to number 1 as the book and remained on the list for over three years ( 164 consecutive weeks ), through October 8, 1995.

* Báječná léta pod psa ( The Blissful Years of Lousy Living, 1992 )-humorous bestseller about the Communist era ; made into a film in 1997 ( co-scripted by Jan Novák )

She achieved national attention in 1992 with her third novel, Waiting to Exhale, which remained on The New York Times bestseller list for many months.

After Ellis recommended her work to literary agent Amanda Urban, The Secret History was published in 1992, and sold out its original print-run of 75, 000 copies, becoming a bestseller.

Daniel Yergin is best known for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, a number-one bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1992 and the Eccles Prize for the best book on economics for a general audience.

He wrote four novels: Parallel Life ( Παράλληλη Ζωή-Parallili Zoi ) in 1985, Macbeth ( Μακαβέττας-Macavettas ) in 1988, in 1992, Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture ( Ο θείος Πέτρος και η Εικασία του Γκόλντμπαχ-O Theios Petros kai i Eikasia tou Goldbach ), which went on to become an international bestseller, and The Three Little Men ( Τα τρία ανθρωπάκια-Ta Tria Anthropakia ) in 1997.

Einstein's Dreams is a 1992 novel by Alan Lightman that was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages.

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying was first launched in the United States in September 1992, where it received high acclaim and spent several weeks at the top of the bestseller lists.

Chaplin's first major project after A King in New York, his memoirs My Autobiography ( 1964 ), also became a bestseller despite receiving mixed reviews.

His first three books gained much contemporary attention ( the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller ), and after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime.

The writer Theodor Fontane, painter Adolf von Menzel, and Dadaist Kurt Schwitters were all guests ; Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacus Communist movement leader read a lot here and even made some key political speeches from the pavement terrace, while author Erich Kästner wrote part of his 1929 bestseller for children, Emil und die Detektive ( Emil and the Detectives ), on the same terrace and made the café the setting for an important scene in the book.

His most recent novels — Pattern Recognition ( 2003 ), Spook Country ( 2007 ) and Zero History ( 2010 )— are set in a contemporary world and have put his work onto mainstream bestseller lists for the first time.

One of his first picture stories, Max and Moritz ( published in 1865 ), was an immediate success and has achieved the status of a popular classic and perennial bestseller.

Hoping that his work would be picked up by Gallimard, the publishers of Jean-Paul Sartre's influential bestseller, Being and Nothingness ( 1943 ), he was perturbed when they rejected him, instead selecting Plon.

He is best known for his novel Das Boot ( 1973 ), which became an international bestseller and was adapted in 1981 as an Oscar-nominated film.

* Billie Letts – Author of No. 1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection Where the Heart Is ( Warner, 1996 ), made into a 2000 film of the same title, starring Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman.

An example is Han Han's ( 韩寒 ) novel 他的国 His land ( 2009 ), which was written in a social critical surrealistic style against the uncritical mainstream, but ranked 1st in 2009 Chinese bestseller list.

She became well known for her novel, Sally Hemings ( 1979 ), which earned critical acclaim and became a bestseller.

Her first book, Under the Window ( 1879 ), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses about children, was a bestseller.

Thanks to a relationship with Hedda's old schoolmate Thea Elvsted ( who has left her husband for him ), Løvborg shows signs of rehabilitation and has just completed a bestseller in the same field as Tesman.

* Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer ( published 1979 ), reaches # 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Her second book, Play the Monster Blind ( 2000 ), was a national bestseller and a " Best Book " of 2000 for the Globe and Mail.

The Life and Times of the Shmoo ( 1948 ), a paperback collection of the original sequence, was a bestseller for Simon & Schuster and became the first cartoon book to achieve serious literary attention.

Perhaps his most famous work is Iron John: A Book About Men ( 1990 ), an international bestseller which has been translated into many languages and is credited with starting the Mythopoetic men's movement in the United States.

His best-known works are the anti-German invasion fantasies The Great War in England in 1897 ( 1894 ) and The Invasion of 1910 ( 1906 ), the latter of which was a phenomenal bestseller.

The first edition of The Canadian Encyclopedia was published in three volumes in 1985 ( ISBN 0-88830-269-X ) and was a Canadian bestseller ( 150, 000 sets sold in six months ), and a revised and expanded edition was released in 1988 ( ISBN 0-88830-326-2 ).

Richard Branson's autobiography Losing My Virginity ( ISBN 9780753513002 ), released in 1998, was an international bestseller at the time, and continues to sell well.

Charleston ( 1981 ), her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston ( 1984 ), The Time Returns ( 1985 ), and New Orleans Legacy ( 1987 ).

This tradition can be traced back to two early Mormon sources: ( 1 ) the exaggerated hemispheric setting for the Book of Mormon promoted by some LDS ( e. g. Orson Pratt ), and ( 2 ) the later influence of John Lloyd Stephens ’ 1841 bestseller, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.

In the Cut ( 2003 ), an erotic thriller based on Susanna Moore's bestseller, provided Meg Ryan an opportunity to depart from her more familiar onscreen persona.

In fact, the project was small, underfunded by United Artists, and well under the cultural radar during the early months of production, as Stephen King's source novel had yet to climb the bestseller list.

In June 1982, a Village Voice report by Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith accused Kosiński of plagiarism, claiming that much of his work was derivative of prewar books unfamiliar to English readers, and that Being There was a plagiarism of Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy — The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma — a 1932 Polish bestseller by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz.

First published by Knopf Canada and Picador in December 1999, shortly after the 1999 WTO Ministerial Conference protests in Seattle had generated media attention around such issues, it became one of the most influential books about the alter-globalization movement and an international bestseller.

Once it got into print, Steal this Book had widespread readership and became a bestseller, however Steal this Book was subversive enough such that it was rejected by at least thirty publishers before it was able to get into print.

It is difficult to judge the issue of quality but, based on the number of times a title published by Baen Books appeared in the bestseller lists produced by the major bookselling chains, it is ranked the seventh most popular SF publisher.

TSR's first hardcover novel, Legacy by R. A. Salvatore, was published that year, and climbed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list within weeks.

Its inaugural number one bestseller, The Body Principal by Victoria Principal, had been number ten and number twelve on the non-fiction lists for the two preceding weeks.

It was the biggest tie-in novel published by Pocket Books, and spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, peaking at # 3.

Clark was the main subject of the 1999 bestseller The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by U. S. author Michael Lewis.

The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy by E. L. James was first published in ebook in 2011 and subsequently went on to become a bestseller.

This village became a orgasm famous after The New York Times bestseller, World War Z, written by Max Brooks was published.

The two-disc album remains a bestseller, having sold millions of records around the world, and is the 38th best selling album of all time in the UK with sales of 2, 561, 286 by 2009.

Published by Editions Phébus, it sold 60, 000 copies, making it a bestseller.

The Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zelinsky is one example of a bestseller pop-up picture book.

Demara's story was recounted in the 1960 book, The Great Impostor, written by Robert Crichton and published by Random House ; the book was a New York Times bestseller and adapted into a 1961 film by the same name starring Tony Curtis as Demara.

Despite mixed reviews from the contemporary media, the book gained a following by word of mouth and became a bestseller.

On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynistic ; though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy made it a paperback bestseller for Alfred A. Knopf later that year.

Published in 1970 by Zondervan, The Late, Great Planet Earth became a bestseller.

A major bestseller, by 1990 the book had sold 15 million copies worldwide.

* Simon & Schuster paid US $ 4. 2 million for the hardcover publishing rights for The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans after the self-published book appeared on The New York Times bestseller list.