The book " Lovely Bones " ranked top on the New York Times list for nearly 30 weeks and remained on the list for more than 70 weeks continuously. It has been a bestseller for two years. Selected by the American "Book-of-the-Month Club" as a recommended book, it also won the "Best American Novel of the Year" award and was shortlisted for the "British Book of the Year Award". In France, it was listed among the "Top 20 Books of 2003" by the Lire magazine.