The biggest surprise in the 2002 annual trade bestsellers is that there was only one book that sold more than one million copies in the course of the year's 12 months. And that book wasn't a movie tie-in, a media book club pick or written by a celebrity. The #1 book was The Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker by Dawn J. Ranck and Phyllis Pellman Good, from the Mennonite publishing house Good Books, based in Intercourse, Pa. It outsold all of the Lord of the Rings movie tie-ins by at least two to one. Sales of the book, published at the end of 2000, now total now more than 2.5 million; about 1.8 million sold last year. A follow-up book, Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining, was published in October of 2002; it finished the year with sales of more than 625,000 copies. Just two years earlier, there were 19 trade paperbacks with sales of one million or more. That 2000 list of winners included Oprah picks, six books from Tyndale's apocalyptic Left Behind series and three Chicken Soup titles. The Chicken Soup series had 14 books on the 2002 list, an excellent number considering the brand has been around since 1995; still, the highest sales were just over 600,000.
Publisher Merle Good (his wife is one of the books' authors and is the firm's senior editor; the co-author is in its design department) put a lot of effort in getting the book distributed to a wide range of book and nonbook outlets without spending any advertising money in 2001. Last year, Good allocated marketing money for positioning and endcaps in the stores; for Mother's Day 2003, there will be national advertising in People and USA Today. The book has enjoyed long stints on the national bestseller charts and also on the Book Sense list. Good estimates that about 50% of the two books' sales were through discount chains such as Sam's, Costco and Wal-Mart. There was one offbeat sales venue. A publisher of a lot of quilting books, Good was always well represented by Checker Distributors, the largest distributor for quilt patterns and books to that specialty marketplace. Two of Good's hybrid quilt/cookbook titles—A Quilter's Christmas Cookbook and Favorite Recipes for Quilters—turned out to be good sellers for Checkers, so it took a gamble on the Fix-It cookbook. It was the wholesaler's bestselling book in 2002.
Back in 2001, there were seven books with annual sales of more than one million units; in 2000, there were 19 trade paperback with sales of more than one million. While annual sales in the higher ranges were down in trade paper, sales picked up in the 100,000-plus category. There were 92 trade paperbacks with annual sales over 100,000; that figure easily broke the record set just a year earlier, when 75 books sold 100,000 copies or more. Overall, the number of trade paperbacks that sell more than 100,000 copies has been heading upward. A total of 166 trade paperbacks had annual sales of more than 100,000 last year; that's twice as many as the 1995 figure of 83 books and quadruple the 39 trade paperback titles that sold more than 100,000 copies in 1980.
Trade paperback fiction bestsellers accounted for 65 of the 166 trade paperbacks that had sales over the 100,000 mark; 35 of these bestsellers were in the 200,000-copy-plus grouping.
Fiction Rules in Mass
No changes to report in the types of titles that made up the year's top mass market bestsellers. Only five of the books with sales of 500,000 or more were nonfiction. Reprints of hardcover bestsellers and original category (almost always romance) releases accounted for 102 fiction mass market top sellers.
In our 2002 calculations, we tracked mass market titles with sales of more than 500,000 for the first time. The decision was based on our observation that unit sales for this format have declined. Back in 1990, a total of 123 mass market titles enjoyed sales of one million or more copies; in 2002, 113 mass markets had sales of 500,000-plus.
Figuring 2002
Listed on the following pages are trade paperback and mass market titles published in 2001 and 2002; the rankings are based on 2002 sales only. To qualify, trade paperbacks had to have sold more than 100,000 copies in 2002; for mass markets, sales of more than 500,000 were required. A single asterisk (*) indicates the book was published in 2001; a double asterisk (**) means the book was published earlier but either remained or reappeared on the charts in the year 2002. Those reappearances were most often movie tie-ins. A pound symbol (#) indicates that the shipped and billed figure was rounded down to the nearest 25,000 to indicate its relationship to sales figures of other titles. The actual figures were given to PW in confidence for use in placing titles on these lists.
TRADE PAPERBACKS
ONE MILLION+
**Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook. Dawn J. Ranck and Phyllis Pellman Good. Orig. Good Books (1,806,379)
750,000+
The Two Towers. J.R.R. Tolkien. Movie tie-in. Houghton Mifflin (966,869)
The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien. Movie tie-in. Houghton Mifflin (871,276)
The Return of the King. J.R.R. Tolkien. Movie tie-in. Houghton Mifflin (799,123)
The Fellowship of the Ring. J.R.R. Tolkien. Movie tie-in. Houghton Mifflin (785,385)
What to Expect When You're Expecting, 3rd ed. Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway. Orig. Workman (769,416)
500,000+
**Sula. Toni Morrison. Reissue. Plume (720,000)
**A Child Called It. David Pelzer. Health Communications (696,555)
Empire Falls. Richard Russo. Rep. Vintage (677,063)
*Fast Food Nation. Eric Schlosser. Rep. Perennial (676,464)
The Last Time They Met. Anita Shreve. Rep. Little, Brown (652,315)
The Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reissue. Houghton Mifflin (650,885)
A Common Life. Jan Karon. Rep. Penguin (650,000)
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. James Patterson. Rep. Warner (644,069)
*Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul II. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (631,000)
Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining. Phyllis Pellman Good and Dawn J. Ranck. Orig. Good Books (625,229)
Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne. Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye. Tyndale (604,240)
White Oleander. Janet Fitch. Movie tie-in. Little, Brown (592,895)
Dangerous. Nora Roberts. Reissue. Harlequin (580,000)
**The Power of a Praying Wife. Stormie Omartian. Rep. Harvest House (565,818)
*A Beautiful Mind. Sylvia Nasar. Rep. Touchstone (554,600)
Good in Bed. Jennifer Weiner. Rep. Pocket (509,703)
John Adams. David McCullough. Rep. Touchstone (509,200)
**The Four Agreements. Don Miguel Ruiz. Orig. Amber-Allen (506,867)
300,000+
Cordina's Royal Family. Nora Roberts. Reissue. Harlequin (495,000)
Seabiscuit. Laura Hillenbrand. Rep. Ballantine (491,672)
*Chicken Soup for the Father's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (483,299)
Founding Brothers. Joseph J. Ellis. Rep. Vintage (453,409)
The Corrections. Jonathan Franzen. Rep. Picador USA (447,776)
**The Red Tent. Anita Diamant. Rep. Picador USA (438,379)
Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution. Robert C. Atkins. Rep. Quill (435,657)
Bel Canto. Ann Patchett. Rep. Perennial (432,774)
*Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (420,726)
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Golf. David Borgenicht and Josh Piven. Orig. Chronicle (413,070)
Chicken Soup for the Soul of America. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (410,003)
Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (389,516)
#Tuesdays with Morrie. Mitch Albom. Rep. Broadway (375,000)
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Holidays. David Borgenicht, Josh Piven and Jennifer Worick. Orig. Chronicle (356,587)
Nickel and Dimed. Barbara Ehrenreich. Rep. Holt (350,000)
*The Power of a Praying Husband. Stormie Omartian. Orig. Harvest House (345,964)
*The Wrinkle Cure. Nicholas Perricone, M.D. Rep. Warner (343,689)
Retire Young, Retire Rich. Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter. Orig. Warner (340,549)
Ghost Soldiers. Hampton Sides. Rep. Anchor (333,650)
Chicken Soup for the Sister's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (322,238)
Peace Like a River. Leif Enger. Rep. Grove (318,712)
Back When We Were Grownups. Anne Tyler. Rep. Ballantine (305,413)
About a Boy. Nick Hornby. Movie tie-in. Riverhead (303,129)
*It's Not About the Bike. Lance Armstrong. Rep. Berkley (300,755)
200,000+
**The Power of a Praying Parent. Stormie Omartian. Rep. Harvest House (293,903)
*Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (281,243)
Lucky. Alice Sebold. Rep. Little, Brown (276,069)
#Shopaholic Takes Manhattan. Sophie Kinsella. Orig. Dell (275,000)
The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck. Reissue. Penguin (275,000)
How to Be Good. Nick Hornby. Riverhead (271,443)
Robert Ludlum's The Paris Option. Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds. Orig. St. Martin's (267,320)
The Hours. Michael Cunningham. Movie tie-in. Picador USA (260,521)
Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (258,228)
#*Confessions of a Shopaholic. Sophie Kinsella. Orig. Dell (255,000)
*The Courage to Be Rich. Suze Orman. Rep. Riverhead (252,782)
Chicken Soup for the Grandparent's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (251,396)
The Darwin Awards. Wendy Northcutt. Rep. Plume (250,000)
Cane River. Lalita Tademy. Rep. Warner (239,534)
*Girl with a Pearl Earring. Tracy Chevalier. Rep. Plume (230,000)
Theodore Rex. Edmund Morris. Rep. Modern Library (227,134)
Heartsongs. Mattie J.T. Stepanek. Rep. Hyperion (224,722)
Officially Osbourne. The Osbournes with Todd Gold. Orig. Pocket (220,545)
#Catch Me if You Can. Frank W. Abagnale with Stan Redding. Movie tie-in. Broadway (219,000)
The Beatles Anthology. The Beatles. Rep. Chronicle (215,361)
Chicken Soup for the Baseball Lover's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (215,145)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Dai Sijie. Rep. Anchor (212,915)
Honest Illusions. Nora Roberts. Reissue. Berkley (211,109)
Falling Angels. Tracy Chevalier. Rep. Plume (210,000)
#A Girl Named Zippy. Haven Kimmel. Orig. Broadway (202,000)
*Me Talk Pretty One Day. David Sedaris. Rep. Little, Brown (201,538)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Michael Chabon. Rep. Picador USA (201,111)
150,000+
**The Case for Christ. Lee Strobel. Orig. Zondervan (192,011)
*1001 PlayThinks. Ivan Moscovich. Orig. Workman (187,659)
Portrait in Sepia. Isabelle Allende. Rep. Perennial (183,550)
Napalm and Silly Putty. George Carlin. Rep. Hyperion (181,457)
Raising Fences. Michael Datcher. Rep. Riverhead (180,212)
*We Were the Mulvaneys. Joyce Carol Oates. Rep. Plume (180,000)
*How to Grill. Steven Raichlen. Orig. (177,222)
Crossing Over. John Edwards. Orig. Princess House (177,194)
The Fourth Hand. John Irving. Rep. Ballantine (176,576)
Chicken Soup for the Golfer's Soul 2. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (176,273)
*Help Yourself. Dave Pelzer. Rep. Plume (175,000)
My Dream of You. Nuala O'Faolain. Rep. Riverhead (172,113)
Year of Wonders. Geraldine Brooks. Rep. Penguin (170,000)
Black Hawk Down. Mark Bowden. Movie tie-in. Penguin (170,000)
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer. Tracy Hogg with Melinda Blau. Rep. Ballantine (167,629)
The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell. Rep. Little, Brown (164,735)
Wild Blue. Stephen Ambrose. Rep. Touchstone (163,300)
Chicken Soup for the Christian Woman's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (161,655)
The Simpsons Beyond Forever. Matt Groening. Orig. Perennial (160,509)
**Left Behind. Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye. Rep. Tyndale (160,420)
Killing Pablo. Mark Bowden. Rep. Penguin (160,000)
#The O'Reilly Factor. Bill O'Reilly. Rep. Broadway (160,000)
Top Secret Recipes. Todd Wilbur. Orig. Plume (160,000)
5 Quarters of the Orange. Joanne Harris. Rep. Perennial (158,868)
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex. David Borgenicht, Josh Piven and Jennifer Worick. Orig. Chronicle (158,021)
#The Fiery Cross. Diana Gabaldon. Rep. Dell (155,000)
*Relationship Rescue. Dr. Phil McGraw. Rep. Hyperion (154,212)
The Weight of Water. Anita Shreve. Movie tie-in. Little, Brown (150,884)
100,000+
*Trust and Tragedy: Encountering God in Times of Crisis. Tommy Tenney. Orig. Thomas Nelson (149,355)
*Drowning Ruth. Christina Schwartz. Rep. Ballantine (148,542)
The Rescue. Lori Wick. Rep. Harvest House (148,224)
Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook. Suze Orman. Rep. Three Rivers (147,961)
Big Cherry Holler. Adriana Trigiani. Rep. Ballantine (147,639)
For Better, for Worse. Carole Matthews. Orig. Avon (147,551)
The First American. H.W. Brands. Rep. Anchor (146,670)
*9-11. Noam Chomsky. Orig. Seven Stories (145,000)
Tony Hawk. Tony Hawk. Rep. ReganBooks (144,394)
Even More Top Secret Recipes. Todd Wilbur. Orig. Plume (140,000)
*Windows XP for Dummies. Andy Rathbone. Orig. Wiley (138,261)
The World Below. Sue Miller. Rep. Ballantine (137,972)
Good Harbor. Anita Diamant. Rep. Scribner Fiction (134,900)
Dare to Repair. Julie Sussman and Stephanie Glakas-Tenet. Orig. HarperResource (133,680)
The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy. Brian Sibley. Orig. Houghton Mifflin (132,291)
The Queen of Clean Conquers Clutter. Linda Cobb. Orig. Pocket (130,383)
Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (129,938)
*Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (129,466)
Total Yu-Gi-Oh. Orig. Triumph (129,300)
Choke. Chuck Palahniuk. Rep. Anchor (129,082)
#Mr. Maybe. Jane Green. Rep. Broadway (127,000)
The Spongebob Squarepants Survival Guide. David Lewman. Orig. Pocket (126,325)
Blue Diary. Alice Hoffman. Rep. Berkley (125,646)
The Authorized Osbournes: TV's Favorite Outrageous Family. Orig. Triumph (125,500)
French Lessons. Peter Mayle. Rep. Vintage (125,239)
Churchill. Roy Jenkins. Rep. Plume (125,000)
*Cup of Comfort. Colleen Sell. Orig. Adams Media (123,965)
Prozac Nation. Elizabeth Wurtzel. Movie tie-in. Riverhead (123,025)
*Big Stone Gap. Adrianna Trigiani. Rep. Ballantine (122,510)
The Best American Short Stories 2002. Edited by Sue Miller. Orig. Houghton Mifflin (121,950)
*Real Estate Riches. Dolf Deroos. Orig. Warner (121,809)
Possession. A.S. Byatt. Movie tie-in. Vintage (121,325)
High Maintenance. Jennifer Belle. Rep. Riverhead (120,073)
Patches of Godlight. Jan Karon. Rep. Penguin (120,000)
Betty Crocker's Ultimate Cake Mix Cookbook. Betty Crocker editors. Orig. Wiley (119,593)
The Sex Chronicles. Zane. Orig. Pocket (119,564)
Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Michael Pollan. Rep. Random (118,385)
*A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Dave Eggers. Rep. Vintage (117,765)
When Character Was King. Peggy Noonan. Rep. Penguin (115,000)
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956. Garrison Keillor. Rep. Penguin (115,000)
War Letters. Andrew Carroll. Rep. Pocket (114,738)
Walking the Bible. Bruce Feiler. Rep. Perennial (113,366)
The Onion Ad Nauseam. Onion editors. Rep. Three Rivers (112,534)
Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul. Edited by Canfield & Hansen et al. Orig. HCI (112,432)
Get Clark Smart. Clark Howard and Mark Meltzer. Orig. Hyperion (112,281)
*Icy Sparks. Gwyn Rubio. Rep. Penguin (112,000)
Any Way the Wind Blows. E. Lynn Harris. Rep. Anchor (110,856)
*Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Helen Fielding. Rep. Penguin (110,000)
#Diary of a Mad Bride. Laura Wolf. Rep. Dell (110,000)
*Death of Vishnu. Manil Suri. Rep. Perennial (109,255)
Boundaries. Henry Cloud and John Townsend. Orig. Zondervan (108,857)
*The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reissue. Houghton Mifflin (106,858)
Justice. Dominick Dunne. Rep. Three Rivers (106,804)
Suze Orman's Protection Portfolio. Suze Orman. Orig. Hay House (105,859)
Betty Crocker's Cooky Book. Betty Crocker editors. Orig. Wiley (105,131)
Yoga: The Poetry of the Body. Rodney Yee with Nina Zolotow. Orig. St. Martin's (104,443)
Ten Stupid Things Couples Do to Mess Up Their Relationships. Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Rep. Quill (104,409)
April 1865. Jay Winik. Rep. Perennial (104,177)
From Beirut to Jerusalem. Thomas L. Friedman. Rep. Anchor (104,029)
*Prayers. Don Miguel Ruiz. Orig. Amber-Allen (104,013)
Hang 10. Detroit Free Press. Orig. Triumph (104,000)
*Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Edmund Morris. Rep. Modern Library (103,762)
The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter. David Colbert. Rep. Berkley (102,103)
#Smart Couples Finish Rich. David Bach. Rep. Broadway (102,000)
ALMANACS, ATLASES & ANNUALS
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2003. Edited by Ken Park. Annual. World Almanac (993,647)
#Guinness World Records 2002 edited by Antonia Cunningham. Revised. Bantam (510,000)
*The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2002. Edited by Ken Park. Annual. World Almanac (262,773)
J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2003. J.K. Lasser. Orig. Wiley (170,584)
The Ernst & Young Tax Guide 2003. Ernst & Young. Orig. Wiley (153,528)
*AAA North American Road Atlas. Annual. AAA (131,342)
The World Almanac for Kids 2003. Edited by Kevin Seabrooke. Annual. World Almanac (121,704)
What Color Is Your Parachute 2003. Richard Nelson Bolles. Orig. Ten Speed (108,941)
MASS MARKET
TWO MILLION+
#The Summons. John Grisham. Rep. Dell (3,965,000)
*The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. J.R.R. Tolkien. Movie tie-in. Del Rey (2,828,087)
Face the Fire. Nora Roberts. Orig. Jove (2,700,269)
The Villa. Nora Roberts. Rep. Jove (2,204,755)
Midnight Bayou. Nora Roberts. Rep. Jove (2,034,602)
ONE MILLION+
On the Street Where You Live. Mary Higgins Clark. Rep. Pocket (1,796,342)
*The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. J.R.R. Tolkien. Movie tie-in. Del Rey (1,718,720)
*The Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien. Movie tie-in. Del Rey (1,710,430)
1st to Die. James Patterson. Rep. Warner (1,710,323)
#The Kiss. Danielle Steel. Rep. Dell (1,610,000)
Violets Are Blue. James Patterson. Rep. Warner (1,605,733)
Isle of Dogs. Patricia Cornwell. Rep. Berkley (1,601,026)
Table for Two. Nora Roberts. Reissue. Harlequin (1,600,000)
*The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. J.R.R. Tolkien. Movie tie-in. Del Rey (1,584,587)
The Black House. Stephen King and Peter Straub. Rep. Ballantine (1,555,038)
#One Door Away from Heaven. Dean Koontz. Rep. Bantam (1,535,000)
Chosen Prey. John Sandford. Rep. Berkley (1,500,936)
The Sum of All Fears. Tom Clancy. Movie tie-in. Berkley (1,404,592)
Summer Pleasures. Nora Roberts. Reissue. Harlequin (1,400,000)
#Red Dragon. Thomas Harris. Movie tie-in. Dell (1,375,000)
Valhalla Rising. Clive Cussler. Rep. Berkley (1,300,541)
#A Painted House. John Grisham. Rep. Dell (1,280,000)
Flesh and Blood. Jonathan Kellerman. Rep. Ballantine (1,258,152)
P Is for Peril. Sue Grafton. Rep. Ballantine (1,257,092)
Tom Clancy's Power Plays #6: Cutting Edge. Created by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg, written by Jerome Preisler. Orig. Berkley (1,240,000)
Purity in Death. J.D. Robb. Rep. Berkley (1,205,427)
The Scarlet Feather. Maeve Binchy. Rep. Signet (1,201,307)
Jackdaws. Ken Follett. Rep. Signet (1,200,037)
Hemlock Bay. Catherine Coulter. Rep. Jove (1,200,028)
The Summerhouse. Jude Deveraux. Rep. Pocket (1,155,400)
#Lone Eagle. Danielle Steel. Rep. Dell (1,150,000)
A Bend in the Road. Nicholas Sparks. Rep. Warner (1,122,525)
Last Man Standing. David Baldacci. Rep. Warner (1,116,110)
The Woman Next Door. Barbara Delinsky. Rep. Pocket (1,114,785)
*The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Rebecca Wells. Orig. Avon (1,103,497)
The Jury. Steve Martini. Rep. Jove (1,102,725)
Reunion in Death. J.D. Robb. Orig. Berkley (1,101,122)
Tom Clancy's Op-Center IX: Men of Honor. Created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, written by Jeff Rovin. Orig. Berkley (1,100,619)
*Pendragon. Catherine Coulter. Orig. Jove (1,100,161)
#Brazen Virtue. Nora Roberts. Reissue. Bantam (1,100,000)
The Bonesetter's Daughter. Amy Tan. Rep. Ballantine (1,093,711)
He Sees You When You're Sleeping. Mary and Carol Higgins Clark. Rep. Pocket (1,072,711)
#Final Target. Iris Johansen. Rep. Bantam (1,060,000)
#Leap of Faith. Danielle Steel. Rep. Dell (1,050,000)
The Sigma Protocol. Robert Ludlum. Rep. St. Martin's (1,049,603)
#Dust to Dust. Tami Hoag. Rep. Bantam (1,025,000)
Mercy. Julie Garwood. Rep. Pocket (1,002,704)
Shock. Robin Cook. Rep. Berkley (1,001,903)
The Penwyth Curse. Catherine Coulter. Orig. Jove (1,000,893)
750,000+
Forever. Jude Deveraux. Rep. Pocket (990,470)
*Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution. Robert C. Atkins. Rep. Avon (963,699)
Envy. Sandra Brown. Rep. Warner (958,781)
BradyGames Grand Theft Auto. Tim Bogenn. Orig. BradyGames (936,014)
#Reap the Wind. Iris Johansen. Rep. Bantam (920,000)
The Manhattan Hunt Club. John Saul. Rep. Ballantine (913,735)
#The Smoke Jumper. Nicholas Evans. Rep. Dell (905,000)
Summer in Eclipse Bay. Jayne Ann Krentz. Orig. Jove (901,816)
Black Hawk Down. Mark Bowden. Movie tie-in. Signet (900,474)
Fall on Your Knees. Ann Marie MacDonald. Rep. Scribner Fiction (878,900)
Phantoms. Dean Koontz. Reissue. Berkley (875,580)
The Door to December. Dean Koontz. Reissue. Signet (875,183)
Willow. V.C. Andrews. Orig. Pocket (824,505)
Full House. Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes. Orig. St. Martin's (821,316)
Smoke in Mirrors. Jayne Ann Krentz. Rep. Jove (800,906)
Wicked Forest. V.C. Andrews. Orig. Pocket (796,449)
No Place Like Home. Fern Michaels. Orig. Pocket (796,350)
Every Breath You Take. Ann Rule. Rep. Pocket (786,490)
The Millionaires. Brad Meltzer. Rep. Warner (780,687)
#The Pill Book, 10th Edition. Harold M. Silverman. Revised. Bantam (760,000)
Twisted Roots. V.C. Andrews. Orig. Pocket (758,119)
The Hearing. John Lescroart. Rep. Signet (751,345)
Cold Paradise. Stuart Woods. Rep. Signet (750,949)
500,000+
#Three Weeks in Paris. Barbara Taylor Bradford. Rep. Dell (740,000)
Dead Sleep. Greg Iles. Rep. Signet (726,963)
Edge of Danger. Jack Higgins. Rep. Berkley (726,100)
Open Season. Linda Howard. Rep. Pocket (721,534)
Hollywood Wives: The New Generation. Jackie Collins. Rep. Pocket (704,159)
Separation of Power. Vince Flynn. Rep. Pocket (701,296)
4 Blondes. Candace Bushnell. Rep. Signet (700,579)
Blue Nowhere. Jeffrey Deaver. Rep. Pocket (696,408)
#Once a Thief. Kay Hooper. Orig. Bantam (670,000)
Angels Everywhere. Debbie Macomber. Orig. Avon (669,234)
The Surgeon. Tess Gerritsen. Rep. Ballantine (669,225)
Speaking in Tongues. Jeffery Deaver. Rep. Pocket (660,967)
Strangers. Dean Koontz. Reissue. Berkley (650,453)
Seven Up. Janet Evanovich. Rep. St. Martin's (647,320)
#The Next Accident. Lisa Gardner. Rep. Bantam (645,000)
#Whisper of Evil. Kay Hooper. Orig. Bantam (620,000)
A Day Late and a Dollar Short. Terry McMillan. Rep. Signet (610,487)
Blood and Gold. Anne Rice. Rep. Ballantine (576,647)
Special Ops: A Brotherhood of War Novel. W.E.B. Griffin. Rep. Jove (576,575)
#Looking Back. Belva Plain. Rep. Dell (570,000)
#True Blue. Luanne Rice. Orig. Bantam (570,000)
#Tell No One. Harlan Coben. Rep. Dell (560,000)
Warrior Class. Dale Brown. Orig. Berkley (553,441)
The Cat Who Smelled a Rat. Lilian Jackson Braun. Rep. Jove (553,226)
Submarine. Tom Clancy. Reissue. Berkley (552,181)
Orchid Blues. Stuart Woods. Rep. Signet (550,255)
#Summer Light. Luanne Rice. Rep. Bantam (540,000)
#Writ of Execution. Perri O'Shaughnessy. Rep. Dell (530,000)
#Thursday's Child. Sandra Brown. Rep. Bantam (530,000)
Family. Mario Puzo. Rep. Avon (528,969)
Under Fire: A Corps Novel. W.E.B. Griffin. Rep. Jove (525,560)
Trust Fund. Stephen Frey. Rep. Ballantine (525,100)
Fatal Voyage. Kathy Reichs. Rep. Pocket (512,533)
Gangster. Lorenzo Carcaterra. Rep. Ballantine (511,681)
Rise to Rebellion. Jeff Shaara. Rep. Ballantine (510,097)
#Dream Country. Luanne Rice. Rep. Bantam (510,000)
Forgotten. Faye Kellerman. Rep. Avon (508,355)
Once Upon a Kiss. Nora Roberts. Orig. Jove (505,927)
Spider-Man. Peter David. Orig. Movie tie-in. Del Rey (505,021)
America. Stephen Coonts. Rep. St. Martin's (503,254)
Robert Ludlum's The Cassandra Compact. Robert Ludlum and Phillip Shelby. Rep. St. Martin's (502,460)
*Published in 2001.
**Continuous bestseller.
#Sales figures were submitted to PW in confidence, for use in placing titles on the lists. Numbers shown are rounded down to the nearest 25,000 to indicate relationship to sales figures of other titles.
