The Sunday Times Bestseller List for November 2014

South African non-fiction stands firm on the Sunday Times South African bestseller list for November 2014, however on the fiction side Wilbur Smith is the only local representative.

Smith’s latest novel Desert God holds on to the top spot, followed by another appearance from Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, which is still seeing a boost from the film release. Deon Meyer’s Cobra falls out of the top five for the first time since August. Australian author Tony Park’s The Hunter, which is partly set in South Africa, comes in at number five.

On the non-fiction list, the only foreign book has a local link: KP: The Autobiography by Kevin Pietersen. Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda la Grange reappears at the top of the list, after disappearing for a month in October. South Africans are still feeling the effects of the Oscar Pistorius trial, with a debut placing for Reeva: A Mother’s Story by June Steenkamp and a reappearance for Mandy Wiener and Barry Bateman’s Behind the Door: The Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp Story, which drops from first place to third.

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The information for this list comes from SAPnet/Nielsen, bookseller data and publisher data.

• View the Sunday Times Bestseller List for July 2014

• View the Sunday Times Bestseller List for August 2014

• View the Sunday Times Bestseller List for September 2014

• View the Sunday Times Bestseller List for October 2014

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• Desert God by Wilbur Smith
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• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
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• The Best Of Me by Nicholas Sparks
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• Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
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• The Hunter by Tony Park
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• Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda la Grange
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• Reeva: A Mother’s Story by June Steenkamp
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• Behind the Door: The Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp Story by Mandy Wiener, Barry Bateman
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• KP: The Autobiography by Kevin Pietersen
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• Nothing Left to Steal by Mzilikazi wa Afrika
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