Although the first best seller list in America was published in 1895, in The Bookman, a best seller list was not published in The New York Times until … See more

According to an EPJ Data Science study that used big data to analyze every New York Times bestselling book from 2008 to 2016, of the 100,000 … See more

In 1983, author William Peter Blatty sued The New York Times for $6 million, claiming that his book, Legion (filmed as The Exorcist III See more

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The list is compiled by the editors of the "News Surveys" department, not by The New York Times Book Review department, where … See more

The list has been criticized by authors, publishers, book industry executives, and others for not providing an accurate accounting of true … See more

A Stanford Business School analysis suggests that the "majority of book buyers seem to use the Times' list as a signal of what's worth reading". The study concluded that … See more