Bestsellers

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1 Tom Clancy 8x

2 Stephen King 7x

3 John Grisham 7x

4 James Michener 4x

5 Heaven 4x

6 World War II 3x

7 The Godfather 3x

8 Sidney Sheldon 3x

9 Primary Colors 3x

10 Jonathan Livingston Seagull 3x

11 Hillary Clinton 3x

12 Dick Francis 3x

13 Danielle Steel 3x

14 Airport 3x

15 The Agony and the Ecstasy 3x

16 Swim with the Sharks 3x

17 Carl Sagan 3x

18 Zane Grey 2x

19 Tom Brokaw 2x

20 The Mammoth Hunters 2x

21 The Hunt for Red October 2x

22 The Horse Whisperer 2x

23 The Group 2x

24 the 1980s 2x

25 the 1970s 2x

26 the 1960s 2x

27 the 1950s 2x

28 the 1940s 2x

29 the 1920s 2x

30 Shirley MacLaine 2x

31 Russell Baker 2x

32 Roots 2x

33 Richard Simmons 2x

34 Pet Sematary 2x

35 Norman Mailer 2x

36 Nancy Reagan 2x

37 Mars & Venus 2x

38 Main Street 2x

39 Louis L'Amour 2x

40 Lincoln 2x

41 Leo Buscaglia 2x

42 Kindergarten 2x

43 John F. Kennedy 2x

44 Jaws 2x

45 James Herriot 2x

46 James Bond 2x

47 Jacqueline Susann 2x

48 It 2x

49 Into Thin Air 2x

50 Ian Fleming 2x

Sample Clues

His "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" was the top-selling fiction book of 1988

Tom Clancy

In 1990 "Four Past Midnight" hit the bestseller lists for this horrormeister

Stephen King

A young attorney barely out of law school exposes a giant corporate conspiracy in this author's "The Rainmaker"

John Grisham

This worldly author brought us tales of "Texas", "Poland" & the "Caribbean"

James Michener

"Tuesdays with Morrie" author Mitch Albom titled his 2003 bestseller "The Five People You Meet" here

Heaven

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Other 465

Tom Clancy (6) James Michener (4) Heaven (4) The Godfather (3) The Agony and the Ecstasy (3) Carl Sagan (3) Airport (3) Jonathan Livingston Seagull (3) Lincoln (3) Sidney Sheldon (3)

Mystery / Thriller 38

Stephen King (7) John Grisham (5) It (2) Pet Sematary (2) Tom Clancy (2) "Cujo" (1) Thinner (1) (Jeffrey) Archer (1) The Widow (1) Kennedys (1)

Children's Literature 8

You're Only Old Once (1) Dr. Seuss (1) (Jean) Auel (1) The Hunt for Red October (1) Pocahontas (1) Maurice Sendak (1) Oz (1) Percy Jackson (1)

Poetry 7

Shelley Winters (1) Sylvia Plath (husband is Ted Hughes) (1) the Dalai Lama (1) Jimmy Stewart (1) Jacqueline Kennedy (1) The Road Less Traveled (1) Salman Rushdie (1)

American Literature 6

The Grapes of Wrath (1) East of Eden (1) Ernest Hemingway (1) the "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" (1) Harper Lee (1) Cannery Row (1)

British Literature 3

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1) J.R.R. Tolkien (1) H.G. Wells (1)