Alice Sebold (1963 – )
Alice Sebold, a bestseller author has published three books: Lucky (1999), The Lovely Bones (2002) and The Almost Moon (2007). Sebold won the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction in 2003 and the Bram Stoker Award in 2002. Her dark … Read the rest
William Henry Cosby Jr. ( 1937 – )
Bill Cosby began as a stand-up comic starting his television carreer with an appearance on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show in 1963. Bill Cosby has won multiple Grammy Awards for comedy recordings and was particularly known for routines like Fat Albert. The bestselller … Read the rest
Dan Brown (1964 – )
Adventure book bestseller Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The DaVinci Code, which has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide and one of the most-talked-about adventure book bestsellers of 2003. A feature film version of The DaVinci Code was … Read the rest
Danielle Steel (1947 – )
With more than 580 million copies of her books in print, and every one of her books is a bestseller. In short, Danielle Steel is the most popular adventure book bestsellers read by women, men, young people, old people in 47 countries and 28 languages. … Read the rest
David Baldacci (1960 – )
David Baldacci, an adventure book bestseller, has published such novels as Absolute Power, The Simple Truth, Saving Faith, Wish You Well, Last Man Standing, Split Second, Hour Game, The Camel Club, The Collectors, Simple Genius, … Read the rest
James Patterson (1947- )
James Patterson is one of the best-known adventure book bestsellers of all time. With more than 16 million books sold in North America alone, in 2007, one of every fifteen hardcover fiction books sold was a Patterson title. Patterson has sold more books than any other … Read the rest
Janet Fitch (1955 – )
Janet Fitch the adventure book best seller’s second novel, White Oleander was included in the Oprah Book Club selection. The audio book also is read by Oprah Winfrey. Her third novel, Paint It Black, named after the Rolling Stones song, was published … Read the rest
John Grisham (1955 – )
This adventure book bestseller , since first publishing A Time to Kill in 1988, has written one novel a year. Some of his bestseller books include The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, Skipping Christmas, The Summons, … Read the rest
John Ernst Steinbeck (1902 -1968)
The adventure book bestseller author wrote several novels without success until he wrote the bestseller Tortilla Flat in 1935. Steinbeck achieved the ultimate success when The Grapes of Wrath (1939) won the Pulitzer Prize.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 “…for … Read the rest
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
The adventure book bestseller Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy ranks as one of the world’s great writers, his War and Peace has been called the greatest novel ever written.
The first portion of the bestseller War and Peace was published in 1865 (in the Russian Messenger … Read the rest
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