best-seller list

noun

: a list of books that are selling the most copies
Her first novel was on the best-seller list for two months.

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Their book has been number one on the New York Times best-seller list for the last two weeks, selling more than 300,000 copies (many of those copies sold on Bezos’ Amazon). Andrew Lack, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 On the contrary, Lázár has topped the German best-seller list for twenty-nine weeks and is set to be translated into more than twenty-five languages. Literary Hub, 1 May 2026 Right now, flowy linen palazzo pants are climbing to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list. Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026 Aiden Thomas, author of Cemetery Boys, the first novel about trans characters by a trans writer to hit the New York Times best-seller list, started out reading and writing slash fiction (X-Men’s Iceman and Pyro). E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for best-seller list

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