JK Rowling's 'The Cuckoo's Calling' Tops Publishers Weekly Bestseller List

JK Rowling's "The Cuckoo's Calling" topped this week's Publishers Weekly bestseller list for the first time since its release.

The novel rose in ranks after "Harry Potter" writer, JK Rowling revealed that she had actually written the crime novel under the pseudonym "Robert Galbraith". Within hours of the revelation, the book topped many charts and jumped more than 5,000 places on Amazon. The digital version of the book stands at number one in the iTunes book chart. The novel has now topped this week's Publishers Weekly bestseller list for the first time since its release.

The list reads:

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "The Cuckoo's Calling" by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) (Mullholland Books/Little, Brown, $26.00) - Last week: 20

2. "Inferno" by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $29.95) - Last week: 3

3. "First Sight" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $28.00) - Last week: 2

4. "The English Girl" by Daniel Silva (Harper, $27.99) - Last week: 1

5. "And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $28.95) - Last week: 4

6. "Second Honeymoon" by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown, $28.00) - Last week: 6

7. "Hidden Order" by Brad Thor (Atria, $27.99) - Last week: 5

8. "Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel" by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster, $27.99) - Last week: NA

9. "Bombshell" by Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $26.95) - Last week: 7

10. "The White Princess" by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone Books, $27.99) - Last week: NA

HARDCOVER NON-FICTION

1. "Happy, Happy, Happy" by Phil Robertson (Howard Books, $24.99) - Last week: 1

2. "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg (Knopf, $24.95) - Last week: 2

3. "Zealot" by Reza Aslan (Random House, $27.00) - Last week: 7

4. "This Town" by Mark Leibovich (Blue Rider Press, $27.95) - Last week: 3

5. "The Duck Commander Family" by Willie & Korie Robertson (Howard Books, $23.99) - Last week: 5

6. "Bargains in The Real World" by Elizabeth Cox - Last week: 6

7. "Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls" by David Sedaris (Little, Brown $27.00) - Last week: 8

8. "Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book" by Grumpy Cat (Chronicle Books (CA), $12.95) - Last week: NA

9. "American Gun" by Chris Kyle (William Morrow, $29.99) - Last week: 9

10. "Dad Is Fat" by Jim Gaffigan (Crown Archetype, $25.00) - Last week: 10

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