The Girl on the Train breaks all-time book sales record

Paula Hawkins’s novel has now been top of the UK hardback book chart for 20 weeks, outlasting even Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol• How Paula Hawkins wrote ‘the new Gone Girl’A record set six years ago by Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol was broken this week by Paula Hawkins’s dark thriller The Girl on the Train.Brown’s Robert Langdon thriller, set in Washington DC amid a world of Masonic secrets, held the No 1 slot in hardback fiction for a record-breaking 19 weeks when it was first published in 2009. Even JK Rowling’s first adult novel The Casual Vacancy, and her crime novels written as Robert Galbraith, failed to reach Brown’s 19-week marker. But Hawkins’s novel, in which a commuter inveigles her way into the lives of a couple she has watched daily from her train, believing something dreadful has happened to them, has just done so, after sitting in the top spot in Nielsen BookScan’s hardback fiction charts for the 20th week in a row, the longest stretch since the book sales monitor’s records began. Related: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins review – a skilful memory-loss thriller Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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