While many of the books on the best seller lists are international thrillers by authors such as John Grisham, there have been some recent home-grown successes.

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You see amazing books written by Anne Lamott, Isabel Allende, Patricia Cornwell, Condoleezza Rice, John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci.

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That would make her the top selling female by far, putting her just ahead of George W. Bush and behind John Grisham in overall sales.

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Their popularity is rivalled by western writers of pulp fiction whose books have been translated into Polish: John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Danielle Steel, Erich Segal and, above all, William Wharton, an American writer who is far more widely read in Poland than in his own country.

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