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Harry Potter tops best-seller list for 2005
Eager U.S. readers snapped up more copies of
Harry Potter's latest adventure on the first
day it was out than any other book sold in the
country in all of 2005, according to sales
figures.
According to industry sales tracker Nielsen
BookScan, J.K. Rowling's latest book on the
boy wizard, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince," sold 4.1 million copies in the United
States on day one and 7.02 million copies for
the full year.
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey proved her
influence, as "A Million Little Pieces," a
substance-abuse memoir chosen by her book
club, took second place.
James Frey's memoir about recovering from drug
and alcohol addiction was the second best
selling book of the year in the United States,
registering 1.77 million copies of the
paperback edition for the year. Winfrey's book
club recommended it in September. The book was
first published in hardback in 2003.
"A Million Little Pieces" recounts Frey's time
at a rehabilitation center for alcohol and
drug addiction. It was the first book chosen
when Winfrey relaunched her book club, one of
the biggest sales drivers in publishing.
Ranked third was Khaled Hosseini's novel "The
Kite Runner" about a young boy growing up in
Afghanistan, followed by David McCullough's
"1776," a history of the American
revolutionary war.
Proving its enduring popularity, which is
likely to continue with the release of a movie
adaptation this year, Dan Brown's "The Da
Vinci Code" was the fifth highest U.S. seller
of the year. His earlier novel "Angels &
Demons" was in eighth place.
The following are the top 10 best sellers
in the United States in 2005, according to
Nielsen BookScan.
1. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,"
by J.K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine Books)
2. "A Million Little Pieces," by James Frey
(Anchor Books)
3. "The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini
(Riverhead)
4. "1776," by David McCullough (Simon &
Schuster)
5. "The Da Vinci Code," by Dan Brown
(Doubleday)
6. "The World Is Flat," by Thomas L. Friedman
(Farrar Straus Giroux)
7. "The Purpose-Driven Life," by Rick Warren (Zondervan)
8. "Angels & Demons," by Dan Brown (Pocket
Star)
9. "You: The Owner's Manual," by Mehmet Oz
(HarperCollins)
10. "Eldest," by Christopher Paolini (Knopf
Books for Young Readers)
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