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Hillbilly Elegy was a NY Times bestseller.
You can hate on the guy, but facts are facts.
Except that list gets manipulated all the time. It's a known practice to order shit tons of your own book, get on the list for a week, and hand them out (or resell them) later.
Ok, I accept that, but it inevitably leads to the next question of "what metric would you accept to call oneself a bestselling authour?"
Probably something better than "it sold more than 1000 copies in a week". Especially when the author can indirectly buy all those copies with not that much money, just to claim the best selling title