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Authors With Most Top-10 US Best-Selling Novels

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Name the authors who have had at least five novels among the year-end top 10 list of US best-selling novels by year since 1895 according to Publisher’s Weekly. Total novels and year span shown.

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Tracy

2 years ago

Are these only American authors?

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to Tracy

No but the standards for the lists are unknown – Wikipedia mentions that’s why they don’t know why the Harry Potter books aren’t included. So I’m not sure the reasoning.

stubz82

2 years ago

What does “US best-selling novels” mean? Is it novels that sold the best in the US or novels from the US that sold the best?

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darin

2 years ago

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Sold the best in the US.

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