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

Perhaps Livermore had it right in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator External link, Edwin Lefèvre’s 1923 best-seller.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

A recent Observer investigation claimed English author Raynor Winn fabricated or gave misleading information about some elements of her 2018 non-fiction best-seller.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 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