After 38 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list, Charles Krauthammer’s Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics has sold more than 1 million copies.
“I wrote Things That Matter to leave something behind of my ideas and my prose in case I got hit by a bus,” Krauthammer said in a statement following Crown Forum’s announcement of the milestone on Monday. “Instead, I seem to have won the lottery. How gratifying to find that the book has appealed to so wide and enthusiastic a readership.”
The book, which debuted at second on the Times nonfiction list last October, reached No. 1 in just its third week on the shelves, and remained in that spot for ten consecutive weeks.
The million-copies figure includes all formats, including print, audio, and digital. Things That Matter, a collection of essays and thoughts by Krauthammer, can be purchased online here.