Example Sentences

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It hardly sounds like the stuff of bestsellerdom.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2021

Like many social scourges, it has frequently been the subject of voyeuristic entertainments, heavy-breathing narratives in the tradition of the great Jackies of lowdown bestsellerdom, Susann and Collins.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2017

Take Joel Dicker’s “The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair,” published in English in the U.S. earlier this year after attaining bestsellerdom in French.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2014

Photograph: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Both are famous for chronicling the darker side of adolescence, but where William Golding won a Nobel prize for his work, so far Stephen King has had to settle for bestsellerdom.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2011

It was a lot more entertaining, and possibly more sociologically edifying, than Slaves of New York, the collection of short stories about the downtown art scene that book flacks so heedlessly hyped to bestsellerdom.

From Time Magazine Archive