Brisingr by Christopher Paolini – Breaks Record

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Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3) by Christopher Paolini

Brisingr, the third volume in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle of fantasy books, sold 550,000 hardcover copies on its first day of release on Sept. 20, making it the best-selling Random House Children’s Books title ever, the publisher announced.

Brisingr was published by Random House’s Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers imprint in the United States and Canada, with a first printing of 2.5 million copies, the largest first-print run in the publisher’s history.

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