bestselling novel
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- noun
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novela más vendida
- After its release, the bestselling novel quickly climbed to the top of the charts, becoming a favorite among book clubs.
- author of a bestselling novel
- Times bestselling novel
- several bestselling novels
Examples
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Sue Miller, the author of several bestselling novels, lives in Boston and is currently at work on a memoir about her father's death from Alzheimer's.
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This non-profit was founded by Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of the bestselling novel Pay It Forward that was made into a film of the same name.
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A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction.
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Everyone is allowed their own opinion, no matter how many bestselling novels they have under their belt.
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Many bestselling novels set in the two World Wars take family stories as their form.
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This dispute provided the basis for the bestselling novel A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr, as well as a major motion picture bearing the same name.
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Her bestselling novel Jubilee (1966) chronicled the progress of a slave family after the Civil War.
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She is currently playing Annika Bengtzon in six movies based on the bestselling novels by Liza Marklund.
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His bestselling novel "The Human Stain" tells the story of fictional character Coleman Silk, an African-American professor who presents himself as having a Jewish background and the trials he faces after leaving his university job in disgrace.
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Anyone who has read The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini's 2003 bestselling novel about life in Kabul before and after the Soviet invasion and the triumph of the Taliban, will know that Afghanistan has not always been as unstable and violent as it is today.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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A book or product that sells many copies soon after release
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A very popular film or book that earns a lot of money
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A very popular movie or song many people enjoy
Antonyms
How Popular
Surface Forms
Morphology
bestselling + novel
The phrase is directly compositional: a novel described as 'bestselling' literally means it sells best/very well, so a learner who knows 'best' or 'sell' and 'novel' can infer 'a novel that sells in large quantities.' This adjective+noun pattern is common and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, making the meaning immediately accessible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Bestselling novel comes from bookshops where the words best and selling were used for books that sold the most copies, and these popular books would 'fly off the shelf'. So a bestselling novel today means a book that sells a lot and is very popular.