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Potter tops 2005 bestseller list in US
Monday 9 January 2006
The boy wizard's sixth outing sold 4.1m copies in America on the first day it was published and a total of 7.02m copies over the full year.
Rowling has said that she would start work on the seventh, and final, Potter book in January.
James Frey's memoir about recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, 'A Million Little Pieces', was at number two on the list after Oprah Winfrey chose it for her bookclub.
'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown, who is currently being sued for plagiarism by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, also featured on the list as did his book 'Angels and Demons'.
'The Da Vinci Code' has been made into a feature film, starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou, which is expected to be released in May.
Top 10 US bestsellers in 2005:
1 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' by JK Rowling (Arthur A Levine Books)
2 'A Million Little Pieces' by James Frey (Anchor Books)
3 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
4 '1776' by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
5 'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
6 'The World Is Flat' by Thomas L Friedman (Farrar Straus Giroux)
7 'The Purpose-Driven Life' by Rick Warren (Zondervan)
8 'Angels & Demons' by Dan Brown (Pocket Star)
9 'You: The Owner's Manual' by Mehmet Oz (HarperCollins)
10 'Eldest' by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
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