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

Gloucestershire-based Rachel Joyce's best-seller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was first published in 2012 and is now on stage at the Theatre Royal in London's Haymarket.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 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

A brand best-seller for a reason, this spiritually oversized yet tailored Another Tomorrow wrap is constructed from 100% post-consumer recycled cashmere.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

It became a best-seller, was rapidly translated into other European languages, and sent a further stream of Spanish colonists to tighten Pizarro’s grip on Peru.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond