best-seller
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It’s also linked to the modern evolution of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day, based in part on Thomas Lawson’s 1907 best-seller about a corrupt stockbroker who crashes the market.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
"We're not used to it -- it was like a best-seller, like something out of a movie," said Suarez, in black sunglasses and a cap bearing the slogan: "Doubt is treason."
From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026
The book is already riding high in the best-seller charts and royal commentator Richard Palmer says it raises difficult topical questions.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025
A book he co-authored, “How Democracies Die,” had become a surprise best-seller.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2025
The same can be said of the novel after the best-seller, the album that follows the gold record, or the proverbial sophomore jinx.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
