There are a few surprises here:
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846): 2 copies
James Joyce, Dubliners (1914): 379 copies
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843): 15,000 copies
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925): 21,000 copies
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996): 44,000 copies
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949): 50,000 copies (UK)
Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind (1936): 176,000 copies
Strunk and White, The Elements of Style (1959): 200,000 copies
Leila Slimani, Chanson Douce (The Perfect Nanny) (2016): 600,000 copies (France)
Charles A. Lindberg, We (1927): 650,000 copies
Stephen King, Pet Sematary (1983): 657,000 copies
Benjamin Spock,The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946): 750,000 copies
A. A. Milne,Winnie-the-Pooh(1926): 1 million copies
Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth(1931): 1.8 million copies
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl(2012): 2 million copies
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960): 2.5 million copies
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