Paula Hawkins‘ thriller The Girl on the Train has broken Dan Brown‘s sales record for The Lost Symbol.
The novel about a commuter who gets entrenched into the lives of people she spies on from a train has been the No. 1 bestseller on Nielsen BookScan’s hardback fiction charts for the 20th week in a row, the longest stretch since the book sales monitor’s records began.
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Hawkins’ novel sold 7,280 copies last week, to keep its top position in original fiction, almost double the second-placed Pretty Girls, by Karin Slaughter. Publisher Transworld said that it has sold more than 800,000 copies since The Girl on the Train was published in January.