What Does It Mean to Be on the New York Times Bestseller List?

"If I could make someone drop out of whatever they were studying to do something else, that's pretty good," he says. "I had no interest in it or anything like that." The book became a New York Times bestseller despite not even being on the list at first. It was barely hit the list right it was like number 15 or 13 or something like that and then it only hit the list because of this big surge of attention all at once.

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