Best-Selling Books

Based on publishers' figures:

  1. The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Samuel French)
    • over 7402 sold thru 10/31/2014

  2. Don Quixote and the Black Knight (Meriwether Publishing)
    • 1584 total (99 kits (x16)) sold as of June 2007)
    • retired at #2, but no longer listed in the Top 10

  3. The Ubu Plays (Baker's Plays)
    • over 1354 sold thru 10/31/2014

  4. Your Swash Is Unbuckled (Baker's Plays)
    • 473 sold thru 10/31/2014
    • enters top 10 at #5 on 12/31/08
    • moves up to #4 on 6/30/12

  5. Seven Santas (Baker's Plays)
    • 434 sold thru 10/31/2014 (includes BPPI -- 111 thru 3/31/09 statement)
    • enters top 10 on 3/31/08
    • moves down to #5 on 6/30/12

  6. Poona the Fuckdog and other plays for children (Original Works Publishing)
    • 255 sold thru Original Works 7/8/13
    • 239 books
    • 16 kindle version

  7. Marley's Ghost (Broadway Play Publishing)
    • 201 sold as of March 2015 statement

  8. Princess Gray and the Black & White Knights (Baker's Plays)
    • 153 sold as of 10/31/2014 (statement)
    • enters top 10 at #10 on 12/31/08
    • displaced from top 10 by Love Loves a Pornographer and Larry and the Werewolf on 3/31/08
    • re-enters top 10 at #9 on 12/31/2009
    • up to #8 at some point (in 2013?)

  9. Romeo & Julius [Caesar] (Baker's Plays)
    • 146 sold thru 10/31/2014
    • displaced from top 10 by DRA 3/06
    • jumps from #13 to #11 on 12/31/11
    • moves up to #10 on 6/30/12
    • moves down from #10 to #12 on 3/31/12
    • up from #11 to #9 on 10/31/14

  10. Dracula Rides Again (Broadway Play Publishing)
    • 148 sold as of March 2015 statement
    • drops from #9 to #10 on 10/31/14 (Romeo & Julius up to notches)

  11. Love Loves a Pornographer (Broadway Play Publishing)
    • 146 sold as of March 2015 statement
    • entered top 10 at #9 on 3/31/09
    • moves down from #10 to #12 on 6/30/12
    • up from #12 to #11 on 3/31/12
    • up to #10 on 10/31/14 (March 2014 statement)

  12. Larry and the Werewolf (Broadway Play Publishing)
    • 133 sold as of March 2015 statement
    • displaced from top 10 by Your Swash is Unbuckled on 12/31/08
    • re-enters top 10 at #10 on 3/31/10
    • drops from #11 to #12 on 12/31/11
    • up from #13 to #10 on 3/31/12
    • dropped from #10 to #11 by Romeo & Julius & Love Loves a Pornographer

  13. Ham/thello (Baker's Plays)
    • 123 sold thru 10/31/2014
    • jumps from #13 to #11 on 6/30/12
    • moves down from #11 to #13 on 3/31/12
    • up from #13 to #12 on 10/31/14

  14. Aesop Refabled (YouthPLAYS)
    • 98 sold thru Oct 10, 2013 PayPal entry

  15. Portrait of the Virgin Mary Feeding the Dinosaurs (Original Works Publishing)
    • 89 sold through Original Works 1/26/14 statement
    • displaced from top 10 by Princess Gray on 12/31/08
    • leapfrogs back up to #9 on 9/28/09
    • displaced from top 10 by Princess Gray on 12/31/09

  16. The Messy Adventures of Dick Piston, Hotel Detective (Baker's Plays)
    • over 80 sold thru 10/31/2014
    • displaced from top 10 by Larry and the Werewolf on 3/31/10
    • drops from #12 to #14 on 12/31/11

  17. Savin' Up for Saturday Night (Samuel French)
    • 77 sold as of 10/31/2014 statement

  18. Your Swash Is Unbuckled II (Baker's Plays)
    • 75 sold thru 10/31/2014

  19. Anger Box (Original Works Publishing)
    • 60 sold through Original Works 1/26/14 statement
    • bumped out by BKLAR and BKMAR Mar 07

  20. Rumpelstiltskin (Baker's Plays)
    • 47 sold as of 10/31/2014 statement
    • entered top 10 at #9 on 3/31/09

  21. Narcissus & Echo (Original Works Publishing)
    • 33 sold thru Original Works 12/4/10

  22. Lesbian's Last Pizza (Original Works Publishing)
    • 28 sold through Original Works 8/28/12 statement
    • bumped out by BKLAR Mar 07

  23. Lear's Labour's Lost (Samuel French)
    • 11 sold thru 10/31/2014

  24. Yes, Svetlana, There is a Grandfather Frost (Original Works Publishing)
    • 0 sold thru Original Works 7/2012
    • NOTE: 188 Kindle copies "sold" during FREE PLAY MONDAY promotion on 8/27/2012

CHART MOVES 1/26/15---PVM (18) moves UP to 15 displacing Messy Adventures (15) Savin Up (16) and Swash II (17) 1/26/15---ABX (20) moves UP to 19 displacing Rumpelstiltskin (19)


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