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>HarperCollins achieved strong sales around the world in fiscal 2005, led by Lemony
Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (HarperCollins Children’s Books). The list of U.S.
bestsellers also included The Purpose Driven Life (Zondervan) – for the second year; Michael
Crichton’s State of Fear (HarperCollins); YOU: The Owner’s Manual (HarperResource) by
Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz; Freakonomics (William Morrow) by Steven D. Levitt and
Stephen J. Dubner; Winning (HarperBusiness) by Jack Welch with Suzy Welch; God’s Politics
(HarperSanFrancisco) by Jim Wallis and Juiced (ReganBooks) by Jose Canseco.
>HarperCollins’ The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction.
>HarperCollins U.K. won 25 top literary prizes including the prestigious Whitbread Biography
Award for My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy, the Whitbread
First Novel Award for Eve Green by Susan Fletcher and the Glenfiddich Food Book Award for
Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets by Joanna Blythman.
>HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand published the best-selling cooking title in Australia – Donna
Hay’s The Instant Cook. HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand signed best-selling Australian author
Colleen McCullough for three novels to be published in Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.
>Zondervan was named Supplier of the Year by Christian bookstores for the third consecutive year. In
addition, Zondervan’s five 2005 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Awards
represented the most for any publisher, bringing Zondervan’s total to an industry-leading 85.
>Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, published by HarperCollins Canada, won both the Pulitzer Prize
and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and Kenneth Oppel’s Airborne won the
Governor General’s Award.
Book
Publishing
The Book Publishing segment principally consists of the operations of
HarperCollins, one of the world’s leading English-language book publishers.
HarperCollins Publishers enjoyed a year of strong sales and earnings,
building on the tremendous success of 2004’s best-selling book in the U.S. –
Christian book publishing division Zondervan’s The Purpose Driven Life.
In all, HarperCollins had 103 books on The New York Times bestseller list,
including 15 titles that reached number one. HarperCollins U.K. had 41 titles
on The Sunday Times bestseller list, with seven books at number one.
>HarperCollins Children’s Books Kitten’s
First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes, Runny
Babbit by Shel Silverstein, Septumis
Heap, Book One: Magyk by Annie Sage
and It’s Hard to be Five by Jamie Lee
Curtis and illustrated by Laura Cornell
topped the New York Times’ children’s
bestseller lists.
>Once again, HarperCollins Children’s
Books had more New York Times
bestsellers than any other children’s
publisher, including several weeks where
the company simultaneously held the
number one slot on the New York Times
Picture Book, Chapter Book and Series
lists — a feat no other publisher has ever
matched.
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