1998 Popular Books and Bestsellers

1998 Books & Bestsellers

1998 Fiction Top Ten Books

(according to Publisher’s Weekly)
1. The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
2. Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
3. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
4. A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
5. Mirror Image by Danielle Steel
6. The Long Road Home by Danielle Steel
7. The Klone and I by Danielle Steel
8. Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell
9. Paradise by Toni Morrison
10. All Through the Night by Mary Higgins Clark

1998 Non-Fiction Books

1. The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman
2. The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
3. Sugar Busters! by H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, Sam S. Andrews, and Luis A. Balart
4. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
5. The Guinness Book of Records 1999
6. Talking to Heaven by James Van Praagh
7. Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self by Sarah Ban Breathnach
8. In the Meantime by Iyanla Vanzant
9. A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett
10. If Life Is a Game These Are the Rules by Cherie Carter-Scott

New York Times Bestsellers

Talking to Heaven by James Van Praagh
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
We Are Our Mother’s Daughters by Cokie Roberts
A Pirate Looks At Fifty by Jimmy Buffett
The Day Diana Died by Christopher Andersen
The Death of Outrage by William J. Bennett
The Century by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw

Amazon’s Top 10 Books

1. A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
2. Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
3. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
6. The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
7. ?
8. The Century by Peter Jennings
9. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
10. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
11. Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Oprah’s Book Club Selections

Paradise by Toni Morrison
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Young Adult

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) by J.K. Rowling
Holes by Louis Sachar
1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Most Popular Books of 1998, according to GoodReads
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