Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' leaps to top of Amazon bestseller lists - CNBC
Author Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" topped several Amazon bestsellers lists on Tuesday, days after he sustained serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in New York.The title also claimed 27th place in the overall Amazon Best Sellers list on Tuesday, where it also had not made the top 100 last week, as seen in Wayback Machine's archive of Amazon's Best Seller page.His other books, including "Midnight's Children" and "Joseph Anton: A Memoir" had similarly topped the Best Sellers list for the Asia Myth & Legend and Religious Intolerance section respectively, where the former had previously not broken top 50 last month.