What are the best selling novels in the US in the year 2000 and 2008? What is your source?

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Question by Oscar C: What are the best selling novels in the US in the year 2000 and 2008? What is your source?
What are the best selling novels in the US in the year 2000 and 2008? What is your source? Is John Grisham one of them? How about Tom Clancy or James Patterson or Danielle Steele?

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Answer by titacabreros
According to Publishers Weekly, all the calculations are based on shipped-and-billed figures supplied by publishers for new books issued in 2006 and 2007 and reflect only 2007 domestic trade sales. The books in the Harry Potter series are excluded “because of the way AAP [Assoc of American Publishers] measures industry sales. The organization takes actual sales from 81 reporting companies (including Potter publisher Scholastic) and then uses Census Bureau data to extrapolate sales for the entire industry. In the past, the inclusion of Potter has distorted growth (and, in non-Potter years, the decline) of the children’s category.”
2000

1. The Brethren by John Grisham
2. The Mark: The Beast Rules the World by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
3. The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
4. The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
5. The Last Precinct (novel) by Patricia Cornwell
6. Journey by Danielle Steel
7. The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
8. Roses Are Red by James Patterson
9. Cradle and All by James Patterson
10. The House on Hope Street by Danielle Steel

2008

1. The Appeal by John Grisham
2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
3. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
4. Cross Country by James Patterson
5. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
6. Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
7. Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
8. Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
9. Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz
10. Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich

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