What books have spent the most time on the NYT bestseller list?

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The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. His manuscript made the rounds of the mainstream houses and then he decided to self publish. He sold over 100,000 copies out of the trunk of his Honda before Warner Books paid him $800,000. The number-one bestseller in 1996, it spent 165 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller list. Over 5.5 million copies have been sold.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was a The New York Times bestseller for 216 weeks following its debut.