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30 #1 NY Times bestsellers

edited February 2008 in General news
This was posted on King's message board. I haven't confirmed its accuracy, but the information is all here to do so. This list appears to confirm it.



A bit of Trivia for you that you may or may not know... with Duma Key SK has notched up 30 number ones on the New York Times best seller list... more than any other author in the history of the list.



1 The Dead Zone Viking October 14, 1979

2 Firestarters Viking September 28, 1980

3 Cujo Viking August 23, 1981

4 Different Seasons Viking August 15, 1982

5 Pet Sematary Doubleday November 13, 1983

6 The Talisman (with Peter Straub) Viking October 28, 1984

7 Thinner (as Richard Bachman) NAL Books April 28, 1985

8 Skeleton Crew Putnam June 23, 1985

9 It Viking September 14, 1986

10 The Eyes of the Dragon Viking February 1, 1987

11 Misery Viking June 7, 1987

12 The Tommyknockers Putnam November 29, 1987

13 The Dark Half Viking November 5, 1989

14 The Stand Doubleday May 13, 1990

15 Four Past Midnight Viking September 16, 1990

16 Gerald's Game Viking July 19, 1992

17 Dolores Claiborne Viking December 6, 1992

18 Insomnia Viking October 23, 1994

19 Desperation Viking October 13, 1996

20 Bag of Bones Scribner October 11, 1998

21 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Scribner May 2, 1999

22 Dreamcatcher Scribner April 8, 2001

23 Black House (with Peter Straub) Random House September 30, 2001

24 Everything's Eventual Scribner April 7, 2002

25 From a Buick 8 Scribner October 13, 2002

26 Song of Susannah Donald M. Grant/Scribner June 27, 2004

27 The Dark Tower Donald M. Grant/Scribner October 10, 2004

28 Cell Scribner February 12, 2006

29 Lisey's Story Scribner November 12, 2006

30 Duma Key Scribner February 10, 2008

Comments

  • The irony with this list is that the titles which are noticably missing are the ones that fetch the highest prices in the secondary market.
  • That's because the ones that fetch the highest prices aren't printed in the quantities that are necessary to make it to #1.



    John
  • And they weren't printed in the quantites to make it to #1 because no one had any reason to believe that this rookie writer could pull that off!



    Sort of a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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