Anniversary Numbers
by Daisy Maryles -- Publishers Weekly, 9/9/2002
Body for Life by Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso has spent more than three years on the hardcover bestseller charts. Publisher HarperCollins calculates there are more than 2.71 million copies after 63 trips to press. The publisher's trade paper division, Perennial, also has a longtime hit with Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. That book drops below the top-15 list for the first time in 103 weeks. Ya-Ya has more than 3,975,000 copies in print after 71 trips to press. Finishing six months on the hardcover list is first fiction The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. The St. Martin's title has about 825,000 copies in print. So far, it has been on the PW charts for 26 weeks, 24 of those in one of the top five slots. In 2001, the longest-running fiction hardcover bestseller was A Painted House by John Grisham; it had a 22-week run. His latest, The Summons, lasted 21 weeks on the 2002 charts, so the Nanny scribes are the ones to beat this year.
