Simon & Schuster Sets New One Week Record with Twenty-Six New York Times Bestsellers

April 8, 2008 -- On April 13, 2008, the New York Times bestseller list will include yet another record-breaking total from various imprints of Simon & Schuster with 26 separate bestsellers. The previous Simon & Schuster record was set less than a month ago on the March 23, 2008 list, which featured 24 separate bestsellers.

Of the 26 titles, three are the #1 sellers on their respective lists: Mistaken Identity by Don & Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak (Hardcover Nonfiction), Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (Paperback Trade Fiction), and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Advice, How-to, and Miscellaneous Hardcover). Mistaken Identity marks the first New York Times bestseller from Howard Books since it became an S&S imprint in 2006, all the more impressive as it landed on the list in the top spot.

Our new record is helped by six books that are new to the list this week; Mistaken Identity by Don & Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak (Howard), The Unquiet by John Connolly (Pocket Star), To Wed a Wicked Prince by Jane Feather (Pocket Star), City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (Simon Pulse), City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (McElderry), and Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter (Atheneum).

Year-to-date, Simon & Schuster has had 65 New York Times bestsellers, nine of which hit #1.

Simon & Schuster's New York Times bestsellers for April 13, 2008

Hardcover Fiction:
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult (Atria, #3)

Hardcover Nonfiction:
Mistaken Identity by Don & Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak (Howard, #1)
Losing It by Valerie Bertinelli (Free Press, #3)
Stori Telling by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, #5)
Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster, #10)

Paperback Trade Fiction:
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult ( Washington Square Press, #1)
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, #3)
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, #17)

Paperback Mass-Market Fiction:
I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket Books, #2)
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Pocket Books, #4)
The Unquiet by John Connolly (Pocket Star, #12)
To Wed a Wicked Prince by Jane Feather (Pocket Star, #14)

Paperback Nonfiction:
John Adams by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, #4)
21: Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (Free Press/Pocket Star, #6)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, #11)

Advice, How-to, and Miscellaneous Hardcover
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Atria/Beyond Words, #1)
Become a Better You by Joel Osteen (Free Press, #3)

Children's Picture Books
Smash! Crash! by Jon Scieszka (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, #5)

Children's Chapter Books
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (McElderry, #3)
Tweak by Nic Sheff (Ginee Seo/Atheneum, #4)
The Nixie's Song by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, #6)
Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter (Atheneum, #9)

Children's Paperback Books
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (Simon Pulse, #7)
Legacy by Kate Brian (Simon Pulse, #9)
Burned by Ellen Hopkins (Simon Pulse, #10)

Children's Series
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, #6)

Source: Simon & Schuster

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