How to Use best-seller list in a Sentence

best-seller list

noun
  • All nine of them have made the New York Times best-seller list.
    — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Right now, flowy linen palazzo pants are climbing to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The book has so far spent 13 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.
    — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The book was among the top five titles on the Times best-seller list for forty-one consecutive weeks.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Sales picked up after that earning her a spot on the New York Times best-seller list.
    — Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The grill pan earned its place on Amazon's best-seller list for its flexibility.
    — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The novel has sold nearly 3 million copies and spent weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller list.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Well Endowed was Tu's second to hit the New York Times best-seller list.
    — Steven Bertoni, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Amazon’s best-seller list is full of work-saving new releases designed to make meals easy and quick to cook—and healthier and tastier to eat.
    — Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2024
  • His first book took up residence on the New York Times best-seller list for an unbelievable eight years.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The 2-year-old novel popped back onto Amazon’s best-seller list, and the retailer is able to sell tie-in merchandise.
    — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The bulk purchases appear to have helped secure Gabbard a spot on the New York Times best-seller list.
    — Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • On the contrary, Lázár has topped the German best-seller list for twenty-nine weeks and is set to be translated into more than twenty-five languages.
    — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • Third-party data like GameStop’s best-seller list and early Twitch viewership indicate the game could have a strong launch.
    — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 20 July 2024
  • Between handy ground lights and shepherds poles, Amazon’s best-seller list has even more to add to your digital shopping cart—read on for our favorite click-worthy outdoor finds.
    — Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2025
  • Yoran’s book made the Der Spiegel best-seller list, and many people began reviewing and quoting it—and also, Yoran soon noticed, misquoting it.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
  • It was released in December 2019 and instantly shot up Amazon's best-seller list upon its debut.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Hoover’s novel, which has spent more than two years at the top of the The New York Times best-seller list, drew criticism for its depiction of intimate partner abuse.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The novel spent 10 months on the New York Times best-seller list and became an international sensation, with rights sold in 40 countries.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 18 July 2025
  • When her full-length memoir arrived in 2021, shortly before the band’s third studio album, Jubilee, the book spent more than a year atop the New York Times’ best-seller list.
    — Delia Cai, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Hoover, a BookTok mega-phenomenon whose novels have dominated the New York Times best-seller list, has several books in the process of being adapted.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In the late nineteen-eighties, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary was on the Times best-seller list for a hundred and fifty-five consecutive weeks.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Decades later, the long shadow of the book—which quickly entered the New York Times best-seller list upon release—and the film presented unique challenges, and alluring opportunities, to the creators of its musical adaptation.
    — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Aiden Thomas, author of Cemetery Boys, the first novel about trans characters by a trans writer to hit the New York Times best-seller list, started out reading and writing slash fiction (X-Men’s Iceman and Pyro).
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026

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