For fun I write best-selling novels under assumed names like Carl Hiassen and John Grisham.
At number five was Danielle Steel, with John Grisham and Dean Koontz equal in sixth place.
Hopefully you won't find out why John Grisham sets so many legal thrillers in Mississippi.
"I bet there's not much crossover, " said literary agent David Gernert, who represents thriller writer John Grisham.
Then one day in 1992 he was told to find the next John Grisham -- or get lost.
He does for trading floors what John Grisham has done for the bench.
Patricia Cornwell tops this chart with her thriller Blow Fly, with John Grisham, James Patterson and Ian Rankin figuring highly.
You see amazing books written by Anne Lamott, Isabel Allende, Patricia Cornwell, Condoleezza Rice, John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci.
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It was the weekend John Grisham's "A Time to Kill" hit theaters.
Based on the 1993 movie starring Tom Cruise (which was based on a popular John Grisham novel), the show premiers January 8th.
O'Rourke's explanation of "Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage" -- using the thrillers of John Grisham and songs ("noise") of Courtney Love -- is a classic.
The only two non-erotic novels in the mass market fiction chart were Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher thriller, The Affair, and John Grisham's The Litigators.
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.
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.
The most enticing suspense tales give readers insights into a high-stakes profession, whether it's defense lawyer (John Grisham), forensic pathologist (Patricia Cornwell) or homicide detective (Michael Connelly).
Thriller writers James Patterson, John Grisham, Ian Rankin and Bernard Cornwell were in the top 10, alongside children's writers Mick Inkpen, Janet and Allan Ahlberg and Roald Dahl.
Asked which authors they really enjoyed reading, more than six out of 10 (61%) chose Harry Potter author JK Rowling, nearly a third (32%) ticked legal thriller writer John Grisham.
People aspiring to be high-powered lawyers should read some of John Grisham's books wherein the species is portrayed as selfish, soulless and overworked, with personal lives that are a mess and activities that are utterly unredeeming.
Big John is John Grisham, the 45-year-old lawyer-turned-author who became publisher of the magazine in 1994 and used it to test the waters for his upcoming novel, A Painted House, which was serialized in the six issues of the Oxford American last year.
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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