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BEST-SELLING U.S. HARDCOVER FICTION
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JOHN GRISHAM |
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BEST-SELLING U.S. HARDCOVER FICTION
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JOHN GRISHAM |
About 8 weeks after the end of each year, Publishers Weekly reviews the previous year's sales of books in the United States and reports on the year's best sellers. That data combined with a summary presentation appearing in David Wallechinsky's The Twentieth Century, provides the source of data for the following table.
| 2002 | John Grisham | The Summons |
| 2001 | Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye | Desecration |
| 2000 | John Grisham | The Brethren |
| 1999 | John Grisham | The Testament |
| 1998 | John Grisham | The Street Lawyer |
| 1997 | John Grisham | The Partner |
| 1996 | John Grisham | The Runaway Jury |
| 1995 | John Grisham | The Rainmaker |
| 1994 | John Grisham | The Chamber |
| 1993 | Robert James Waller | The Bridges of Madison County |
| 1992 | Stephen King | Dolores Claiborne |
| 1991 | Alexandra Ripley | Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind |
| 1990 | Jean M. Auel | The Plains of Passage |
| 1989 | Tom Clancy | Clear and Present Danger |
| 1988 | Tom Clancy | The Cardinal of the Kremlin |
| 1987 | Stephen King | The Tommyknockers |
| 1986 | Stephen King | It |
| 1985 | Jean M. Auel | The Mammoth Hunters |
| 1984 | Stephen King & Peter Straub | The Talisman |
| 1983 | Joan D. Vinge (Adapted by) | Return of the Jedi Storybook |
| 1982 | William Kotzwinkle | E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial Storybook |
| 1981 | James Clavell | Noble House |
| 1980 | James A. Michener | The Covenant |
| 1979 | Robert Ludlum | The Matarese Circle |
| 1978 | James A. Michener | Chesapeake |
| 1977 | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Silmarillion |
| 1976 | Leon Uris | Trinity |
| 1975 | E. L. Doctorow | Ragtime |
| 1974 | James A. Michener | Centennial |
| 1973 | Richard Bach | Jonathan Livingstone Seagull |
| 1972 | Richard Bach | Jonathan Livingstone Seagull |
| 1971 | Arthur Hailey | Wheels |
| 1970 | Erich Segal | Love Story |
| 1969 | Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint |
| 1968 | Arthur Hailey | Airport |
| 1967 | Elia Kazan | The Arrangement |
| 1966 | Jacqueline Susann | Valley of the Dolls |
| 1965 | James A. Michener | The Source |
| 1964 | John Le Carre | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| 1963 | Morris L. West | The Shoes of the Fisherman |
| 1962 | Katherine Anne Porter | Ship of Fools |
| 1961 | Irving Stone | The Agony and the Ecstasy |
| 1960 | Allen Drury | Advise and Consent |
| 1959 | Leon Uris | Exodus |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago |
| 1957 | James Gould Cozzens | By Love Possessed |
| 1956 | William Brinkley | Don't Go Near the Water |
| 1955 | Herman Wouk | Marjorie Morningstar |
| 1954 | Morton Thompson | Not as a Stranger |
| 1953 | Lloyd C. Douglas | The Robe |
| 1952 | Thomas B. Costain | The Silver Chalice |
| 1951 | James Jones | From Here to Eternity |
| 1950 | Henry Morton Robinson | The Cardinal |
| 1949 | Mika Waltari | The Egyptian |
| 1948 | Lloyd C. Douglas | The Big Fisherman |
| 1947 | Russell Janney | The Miracle of the Bells |
| 1946 | Daphne du Maurier | The King's General |
| 1945 | Kathleen Winsor | Forever Amber |
| 1944 | Lillian Smith | Strange Fruit |
| 1943 | Lloyd C. Douglas | The Robe |
| 1942 | Franz Werfel | The Song of Bernadette |
| 1941 | A. J. Cronin | The Keys of the Kingdom |
| 1940 | Richard Llewellyn | How Green Was My Valley |
| 1939 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1938 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling |
| 1937 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone With the Wind |
| 1936 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone With the Wind |
| 1935 | Lloyd C. Douglas | Green Light |
| 1934 | Hervey Allen | Anthony Adverse |
| 1933 | Hervey Allen | Anthony Adverse |
| 1932 | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth |
| 1931 | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth |
| 1930 | Edna Ferber | Cimarron |
| 1929 | Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| 1928 | Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| 1927 | Sinclair Lewis | Elmer Gantry |
| 1926 | John Erskine | The Private Life of Helen of Troy |
| 1925 | Arthur Hamilton Gibbs | Soundings |
| 1924 | Edna Ferber | So Big |
| 1923 | Gertrude Horn Atherton | Black Oxen |
| 1922 | A. S. M. Hutchinson | If Winter Comes |
| 1921 | Sinclair Lewis | Main Street |
| 1920 | Zane Grey | The Man of the Forest |
| 1919 | Vicente Blasco-Ibanez | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| 1918 | Zane Grey | The U. P. Trail |
| 1917 | H. G. Wells | Mr. Britling Sees It Through |
| 1916 | Booth Tarkington | Seventeen |
| 1915 | Booth Tarkington | The Turmoil |
| 1914 | Harold Bell Wright | The Eyes of the World |
| 1913 | Winston Churchill | The Inside of the Cup |
| 1912 | Gene Stratton Porter | The Harvester |
| 1911 | John Jeffery Farnol | The Broad Highway |
| 1910 | Florence Charlesworth Barclay | The Rosary |
| 1909 | Basil King (Anonymous) | The Inner Shrine |
| 1908 | Winston Churchill | Mr. Crewe's Career |
| 1907 | Frances Little | The Lady of the Decoration |
| 1906 | Winston Churchill | Coniston |
| 1905 | Mary Augusta Ward | The Marriage of William Ashe |
| 1904 | Winston Churchill | The Crossing |
| 1903 | Mary Augusta Ward | Lady Rose's Daughter |
| 1902 | Owen Wister | The Virginian |
| 1901 | Winston Churchill | The Crisis |
| 1900 | Mary Johnston | To Have and to Hold |
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