Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers 20 or More Times: Today's Deals

"I wrote for 12 years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me." ~ Lisa Ather

Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers 20 or More Times:

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1. Dubliners by James Joyce

2. Mash by Richard Hooker

3. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison by Charles Shaw

4. Kon-Tiki : Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl

5. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

6. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

7. Lorna Doone by Richard Doddridge Blackmore

8. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

9. The Peter Principle by Laurence Peter

10. Dune by Frank Herbert

"We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way." ~ Earl G. Graves