That doesn't appear to be the case pre-1975, Miker. May well
have changed since then, of course. Here's the stats, for
what they're worth:
1:The Godfather -- Mario Puzo: 12,140,000 2:The Exorcist --
William Blatty: 11,702,097 3:To Kill A Mocking Bird -- Harper
Lee: 11,113,909 4:Peyton Place -- Grace Metalious: 10,672,302
5:Love Story -- Erich Segal: 9,905,627 6:Valley Of The Dolls
-- Jacqueline Susann: 9,500,000 7:Jaws -- Peter Benchley:
9,475,418 8:Jonathan Livingston Seagull -- Richard Bach:
9,055,000 9:Gone With The Wind -- Margaret Mitchell:
8,630,000 10:God's Little Acre -- Erskine Caldwell: 8,258,400
11:1984 -- George Orwell: 8,147,629 12:In His Steps (1969
edition onwards) -- Charles Munroe Sheldon: 7,485,207 13:The
Carpetbaggers -- Harold Robbins: 7,171,841 14: The Happy
Hooker -- Xaviera Hollander: 7,141,156 15:Animal Farm --
George Orwell: 7,070,892 16:Lady Chatterley's Lover -- D H
Lawrence: 6,326,470 17:Catch 22 -- Joseph Heller: 6,113,000
18:I, The Jury -- Mickey Spillane: 6,096,700 19:The Great
Gatsby -- F Scott Fitzgerlad: 6,036,000 20:The Catcher In The
Rye -- J D Salinger: 5,985,626
Al
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Robison" <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, October
27, 2007 11:10 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Mickey
Spillane
> Allan Guthrie wrote:
>
> Indeed. According to Hackett and Burke's "Eighty
Years
> Of Best Sellers", a list which combines hardcover
and
> paperback sales in the US from 1895 thru 1973,
"I,
> The Jury" registered 6,096,700 sales, which places
it
> slightly ahead of "The Great Gatsby" and "Catcher
In
> The Rye" but well behind the likes of "Love
Story,"
> "Valley Of The Dolls," and "Jaws" (all
over
> 9,000,000).
>
> ******************
> Just slightly ahead of The Great Gatsby? It was
my
> understanding that the book that I, The Jury beat
out
> as all-time bestselling novel was Mitchell's Gone
With
> the Wind.
>
> miker
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