International Bestsellers: November 2013: New Titles Rule The Lists

Newcomers to the international bestseller lists locked down the top spots in several markets in October. Haruki Murakami’s much anticipated novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, the author’s first since 1Q84, hit #1 on Spain’s fiction list (Knopf will publish a translation in the U.S. in fall 2014). Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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