Bringing Out the Dead was an immediate bestseller on publication.

It received outstanding critical acclaim and was an immediate bestseller.

It became an immediate bestseller, with five reprints in six weeks, and sold over 500,000 copies.

It became an immediate bestseller and in February 2008 went into a 2nd printing.

It had become, according to the preface, an immediate international bestseller, popular throughout a savaged world.

It became an immediate bestseller in Turkey, with several hundred thousand copies sold as of 2006.

The book received generally positive reviews and became an immediate bestseller.

Dianetics became an immediate bestseller when it was published in May 1950.

The book's first edition of 18 chapters was an immediate bestseller upon its release.

The book was an immediate international bestseller, with over 100,000 copies sold to date.