LDS authors who hit No.1 on New York Times
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Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer has sold more than 100 million books worldwide and boasts three blockbuster films based on her novels and two more set for release in the next two years. In November 2009 Time magazine reported, "Altogether (Meyer's) books have spent 235 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, 136 of them at No. 1."Aside from her famed Twilight series, her novel "The Host" also hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Notable to LDS church members is a review of Meyer's work in BYU Studies titled, "Book of Mormon Stories that Steph Meyer Tells to Me: LDS Themes in the 'Twilight Saga' and 'The Host.'"
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I was curious who these authors are, but I don't have the time to go clicking through one of these lists. Please, just give me a list all on one page!
To RG: They didn't list many and don't imagine they'll respond to your request. The 'list' consists of: Stephanie Meyer, Glenn Beck, Jason Wright, Brandon Sanderson, Richard Paul Evans, Brandon Mull and Mitt Romney.
How does Orson Scott Card not make this list? He's far more prolific than any mentioned here.
This is incredibly sad. I'm not an LDS person, but I know quite a few of them and most of the ones I know would cringe at this list.
What about Seven Habits by Stephen R. Covey?
I smell a political bias.
Agreed.
No Orson Scott Card or Stephen R. Covey?
But making sure Glenn Beck and Mitt Romney make the DN list tells me this has all the making of a hidden agenda.
Tracy Hickman is missing.
That picture of Glenn Beck soaking in the attention says it all.
Yes, this is a surprisingly short list. I can think of a number of active LDS authors (like Card, Covey, Hickman, etc.) who have been on the NY Times bestseller list in recent memory but are not on this list . . .
You've forgotten Brenda Novak. She is in my ward in Sacramento, CA and is the biggest selling romance novelist in the world.