Penguin Group (USA) Achieves Industry “Best” in 2008 with Continuing Dominance of The New York Times Bestseller Lists

• » Penguin Group (USA) Is the Only Consumer Trade Publishing House to Achieve Five #1 New York Times Bestsellers Simultaneously in a Single Week This Year To Date
  

• » Penguin Group (USA) Is the Only Consumer Trade Publishing House to Achieve Four or More #1 New York Times Bestsellers Simultaneously, for the Fifth Time in Nine Weeks, or 55% of the Time
  

• » Penguin Group (USA)'s Five #1 New York Times Bestselling Books for the Week of March 2^nd Are:

#1 Nonfiction Books:

» In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (The Penguin Press), #1 on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction List

» A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Plume), #1 on The New York Times Paperback Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous List

» Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin), #1 on The New York Times Paperback Nonfiction List

#1 Fiction Books:

» The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (NAL), #1 on The New York Times Trade Paperback Fiction List

» The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Jove), #1 on The New York Times Mass-Market Fiction List

• » Nearly 40% of The New York Times Hardcover Fiction List

  » 40% of The New York Times Mass Market Fiction List

Penguin Group (USA) leads the industry by far in terms of #1 bestsellers, a record for 2008. This marks the fifth time this year that Penguin Group (USA) has achieved four or more simultaneous #1 New York Times bestsellers in the same week.

For the week of March 2^nd, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (The Penguin Press) holds at #1 in its seventh week on the hardcover nonfiction list; The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (NAL) holds at #1 in its fourteenth week on the trade paperback fiction list; The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Jove) rises to #1 on the mass market fiction list in its third week; Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) is #1 in its 56^th week on the paperback nonfiction list; and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Plume) holds at #1 for the third week on the paperback advice, how-to and miscellaneous list.

Penguin Group (USA) also continues to dominate The New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list, occupying six of the 16 slots. This marks the 17^th week in a row (four months straight!) that Penguin Group (USA) has occupied 30% or more of the hardcover fiction bestseller list. This week, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) is #4, after over nine months on the list; Stranger in Paradise by Robert B. Parker (G. P. Putnam's Sons) is at #5 in its second week; World Without End by Ken Follett (Dutton) is #6, after nearly five months on the list; People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) is #8 in its seventh week; The Ghost War by Alex Berenson (G. P. Putnam's Sons) debuts at #11; and Sizzle and Burn by Jayne Ann Krentz (G. P. Putnam's Sons) is #12 in its third week.

Penguin Group (USA) also owns 40% of The New York Times mass market fiction list, with eight out of 20 bestsellers. In addition to A Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Jove), Tom Clancy's Endwar by David Michaels (Berkley) is #4 in its second week; White Lies by Jayne Ann Krentz (Jove) moves up to #7 in its second week; Hard to Handle by Lori Foster (Berkley) is at #10 in its second week; White Night by Jim Butcher (Roc) is at #11 in its second week; The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (Signet) is at #14 in its seventeenth week; Three in Death by J.D. Robb (Berkley) is #15 in its third week; and Dawn's Awakening by Lora Leigh (Berkley) is at #17 in its second week.

Penguin books, publishing, New York Times, bestsellers, literary awards,