- Nicholas Sparks is hotter than ever, with three paperbacks, The Notebook, The Wedding, and Nights in Rodanthe on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously. The New Line feature film adaptation of The Notebook (Warner, 1996), starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, was a major hit in the summer of 2004. The paperback editions of the novel rocketed to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and have sold over 4.5 million combined copies.
- Sparks's previous hardcover novel, The Wedding (0-446-53245-2, Warner, 9/03), had a first printing of 1.25 million copies and debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. The Guardian (0-446-52779-3, Warner, 4/03), an instant New York Times bestseller, has over 728,000 hardcover copies in print.
- Three Weeks With My Brother (0-446-53244-4, Warner, 4/04), the author's first work of nonfiction, co-written with his brother Micah Sparks, was a New York Times bestseller with over 483,000 copies in print.