Talk:Publishers Weekly lists of bestselling novels in the United States

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does anyone plan to add other bestselling info to this list? as in, not just from the new york times, because if not, than i think it might be apt to change the title to reflect that it's new york times bestselling, which is obviously only one measurement of it. yes sortof picky, but more accurate. Feelingscarfy 13:19, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

For now, I think the name is fine the way it is, since the New York Times' bestseller list is the standard used most often in commercial and promotional contexts (used for the covers of "bestselling" books and in press releases). In the future, if someone adds additional data regarding bestsellers as determined by other media outlets, then we'll decide what to do about article names. What would really be helpful is if someone could find information for the bestselling novels of the year from 1999-2004. Volatile 18:35, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Before 1912?

• I thought that Publisher's Weekly only started publishing their best seller list in 1912? What is the source for the information before 1912? Is it The Bookman?--Milowent • ^hasspoken 04:54, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

To answer my own question. The answer is that from 1895-1912, The Bookman (New York) kept a best-seller list, which was the first such list in the United States. Publisher's Weekly then started their own list. Alice Payne Hackett, who worked for Publisher's Weekly, used the Bookman stats for this period.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 01:07, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Complications with recent lists

For the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2010s, I filled in the sections for 2017, 2018, and 2019 because, until now, they had been empty. However, I noticed a few problems while filling them that might be contradictory to the title. Since 2017, Publishers Weekly has put both fiction and nonfiction books into one list. The 2017 list only had ten books listed, meaning I had to include a nonfiction book and a poetry book to reach the desired number of ten books in the section. The 2018 list, which had twenty books, forced me to include picture books to reach the desired number because of the sheer number of nonfiction books on the list. I'm confused on what I should really be doing in those instances where there are just not enough novels to include to reach ten books, and I am wondering whether a consistent set of guidelines for these pages should be established. I'm not sure. What do you guys think? Lazman321 (talk) 06:14, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

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my love for reading began with Daniel Steels'books. DMEichinger5 (talk) 07:24, 9 February 2023 (UTC)