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Five Penguin Group (USA) Books Simultaneously at #1 on The New York Times Bestseller Lists for the Week of January 13th

Penguin Group (USA)'s outstanding New York Times bestseller performance in 2007 has continued into the New Year — with five #1 slots simultaneously on The New York Times bestseller lists for the week of January 13th. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) returns to #1 on the hardcover fiction list in its 32nd overall week; The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (NAL) is #1 on the trade fiction paperback list for the fifth straight week and its seventh overall week on that list; Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts (Jove) is #1 on the mass market fiction list for a fourth straight week and its sixth overall week on that list; Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) is #1 in its 49th week on the paperback nonfiction list (34 of those weeks at #1!); and The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore (various Penguin Young Readers Group imprints) is at #1 in its fourteenth week on the children's picture book list. Congratulations to everyone involved with the terrific success of these books!

Penguin Group (USA) achieved four #1 slots simultaneously on The New York Times bestseller lists three times in 2007 — including the last two weeks of the year!