2002 Popular Books and Bestsellers

2002 Books & Bestsellers

2002 Fiction Top Ten Books

(according to Publisher’s Weekly)
1. The Summons by John Grisham
2. Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy
3. Remnant by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim La Haye
4. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
5. Prey by Michael Crichton
6. Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
7. The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel
8. Four Blind Mice by James Patterson
9. Everything’s Eventual by Stephen King
10. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
11. From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
12. The Beach House by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
13. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones by R.A. Salvatore
14. Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
15. Answered Prayers by Danielle Steel

2002 Non-Fiction Books

1. Self Matters by Dr. Phil McGraw
2. A Life God Rewards by Bruce Wilkinson with David Kopp
3. Let’s Roll! by Lisa Beamer with Ken Abraham
4. Guinness World Records 2003
5. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
6. Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani
7. Prayer for Jabez for Women by Darlene Wilkinson
8. Bush at War by Bob Woodward
9. Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell
10. Body for Life by Bill Phillips
11. I Hope You Dance by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers
12. Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
13. Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson
14. Good to Great by Jim Collins
15. Get with the Program by Bob Greene

New York Times Bestsellers

Bias by Bernard Goldberg
Shadow Warriors by Tom Clancy with Carl Stiner and Tony Koltz
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
American Son by Richard Blow
A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine
The Right Words at the Right Time, edited by Marlo Thomas
You Cannot Be Serious by John McEnroe with James Kaplan
Slander by Ann Coulter
Let’s Roll! by Lisa Beamer with Ken Abraham
Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani with Ken Kurson
Journals by Kurt Cobain
Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell
Bush At War by Bob Woodward

Amazon’s Top 10 Books

1. Good to Great by Jim Collins
2. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
4. Fish! by Stephen C. Lundin
5. Stupid White Men by Micheal Moore
6. The Nanny Diaries by Emma Mclaughlin
7. Self Matters by Phillip C. McGraw
8. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
9. The Summons by John Grisham
10. Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham

Oprah’s Book Club Selections

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Sula by Toni Morrison

Young Adult

Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1) by Christopher Paolini
The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events #9) by Lemony Snicket
The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2) by Eoin Colfer
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Volume III: Princess in Love / The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky by Meg Cabot
2002 Nobel Prize in Literature
Most Popular Books of 2002, according to GoodReads
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