Self-published best-sellers
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Self-published works that find large audiences are extremely rare, and are usually the result of self-promotion. However, many works now considered classic were originally self-published, including the original writings of William Blake, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, William Morris, and James Joyce.
- Spartacus by Howard Fast (during the McCarthy era when he was rejected by previous large scale publishers)
- The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
- The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer
- What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Nelson Bolles
- Poems by Oscar Wilde
- In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters
- Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
- The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
- Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
- Contest by Matthew Reilly
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini (The book was later published by Knopf)
Other well-known self-publishers include: Stephen Crane, E. E. Cummings, Deepak Chopra, Benjamin Franklin, Zane Grey, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Paine, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Mark Twain.
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