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- Best-Sellers of the Decade
-
- Fiction
-
- 1. "Clear and Present Danger." Tom Clancy (Putnam, 1989);
- 1,607,715.
- 2. "The Dark Half." Stephen King (Viking, 1989); 1,550,000.
- 3. "The Tommyknockers." Stephen King (Putnam, 1987); 1,429,929.
- 4. "The Mammoth Hunters." Jean M. Auel (Crown, 1985); 1,350,000.
- 5. "Daddy." Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press, 1989); 1,321,235.
- 6. "Lake Wobegon Days." Garrison Keillor (Viking, 1985); 1,300,000.
- 7. "The Cardinal of the Kremlin." Tom Clancy (Putnam, 1988);
- 1,287,067.
- 8. "Texas." James A. Michener (Random House, 1985); 1,176,758.
- 9. "Red Storm Rising." Tom Clancy (Putnam, 1988); 1,126,782.
- 10. "It." Stephen King (Viking, 1986); 1,115,000.
- 11. "Kaleidoscope." Danielle Steel (Delacourte, 1987); 1,065,355.
- 12. "Zoya." Danielle Steel (Delacourte, 1988); 1,000,319.
- 13. "Star." Danielle Steel (Delacourte, 1989); 1,000,119.
- 14. "Patriot Games." Tom Clancy (Putnam, 1987; 957,400.
- 15. "Misery." Stephen King (Viking, 1987); 875,000.
- 16.*"The Sands of Time." Sidney Sheldon (Morrow, 1988).
- 17. "The Talisman." Stephen King & Peter Straub (Viking, 1984);
- 830,000.
- 18. "Leaving Home:A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories." Garrison
- Keillor (Viking, 1987); 817,000.
- 19. "The Satanic Verses." Salman Rushdie (Viking, 1989); 766,000.
- 20. "The Icarus Agenda." Robert Ludlum (Random House, 1984); 753,967.
- 21. "Poland." James A. Michener (Random House, 1984); 750,475.
- 22. "The Eyes of the Dragon." Stephen King (Viking, 1987); 750,000.
- 23. "Caribbean." James A. Michener (Random House, 1989); 749,941.
- 24. "Bonfire of the Vanities." Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux);
- 739,862.
- 25. "Skeleton Crew." Stephen King (Putnam, 1985); 720,000.
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-
- Nonfiction
-
- 1. "Iacocca:An Autobiography." Lee Iacocca with William Novak
- (Bantam, 1984); 2,572,000.
- 2. "Fatherhood." Bill Cosby (Doubleday/Dolphin, 1986); 2,335,000.
- 3. "The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure." Robert E. Kowalski (Harper & Row,
- 1987); 2,250,000.
- 4. "Fit for Life." Harvey & Marilyn Diamond (Warner Books, 1985);
- 2,023,000.
- 5. "In Search of Excellence:Lessons From America's Best-Run
- Companies." Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
- (Harper & Row, 1982); 1,375,000.
- 6. "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten." Robert
- Fulghum (Villard, 1988); 1,280,000.
- 7.*"Jane Fonda's Workout Book. Jane Fonda (Simon & Shuster, 1981).
- 8.*"The Frugal Gourmet." Jeff Smith (Morrow, 1985).
- 9. "A Brief History of Time. Stephen W. Hawking (Bantam Books,
- 1988); 1,130,000.
- 10.*"Yeager:An Autobiography." General Chuck Yeager & Leo Janos
- (Bantam, 1985).
- 11.*"Nothing Down." Robert Allen (Simon & Shuster, 1980).
- 12.*"Time Flies." Bill Cosby (Doubleday/Dolphin, 1987).
- 13. "A Day in the Life of America." Rick Smolan & David Cohen
- (Collins Publishers, 1986); 960,000.
- 14. "Cosmos." Carl Sagan (Random House, 1980); 887,462.
- 15. "The Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine." Jeff Smith (Morrow, 1986);
- 860,963.
- 16.*"The Rotation Diet." Martin Katahn (Norton, 1986).
- 17. "Motherhood:The Second Oldest Profession." Erma Bombeck (McGraw-
- Hill, 1983); 846,000.
- 18. "Trump:The Art of the Deal." Donald Trump with Tony Schwartz
- (Random House, 1987); 835,091.
- 19. "Loving Each Other." Leo Buscaglia (Slack/Holt, Rinehart and
- Winston, 1984); 830,587.
- 20.*"His Way:The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra." Kitty
- Kelley (Bantam, 1986).
- 21. "Elvis and Me." Priscilla Beaulieu Presley with Sandra Harmon
- (Putnam, 1985); 810,199.
- 22. "Spycatcher:The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence
- Officer." Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass (Viking, 1987);
- 800,000.
- 23.*"The One Minute Manager." Spencer Johnson with Kenneth Blanchard
- (Morrow, 1982).
- 24. "Megatrends:Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives." John
- Naisbitt (Warner Books, 1982); 762,000.
- 25.*"Talking Straight." Lee Iacocca with Sonny Kleinfeld (Bantam
- Books, 1988).
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- * Indicates that sales figures were submitted for use only in placing
- the title in its correct position on the list.
-
- Source:Publishers Weekly.