Gabriel García Márquez, the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate; in Middlesex, the single event in which the novel "comes to life" is Eugenides' depiction of Callie's liaison with her adolescent lover; and in The Marriage Plot, the novel was exceptional in its "sweet banter of courtship" and the "doormat nice-boy role" the character Mitchell assumes in his interplay with his darling, Madeleine. Sales From the book's publication until the early months of 2003, its sales were unsatisfactory, according to Bill Goldstein of The New York Times. In the week following April 7, 2003, the day Middlesex won the Pulitzer Prize, the book sold 2,700 copies. The book later made the best-selling fiction list and kept its position for five weeks. In June 2007, the novel ranked seventh on USA Todays Best-Selling Books list. In the same month, after Eugenides appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss the novel, Middlesex placed second on The New York Times best-selling paperback fiction list. The Pulitzer award nearly propelled Middlesex to The New York Times Best Seller list, which in 2003 published only the top 15 bestsellers; in the week after Middlesex was announced the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the novel placed 17th on the "expanded list". In 2007, 1.3 million copies of the book had been sold. The same year, the book placed ninth on the Library Journal bestsellers list, which ranks "the books most borrowed in U.S. libraries". Over three million copies of Middlesex had been sold by May 2011 and over four million by 2013. See also Hysterical realism Raptor (novel) References Notes Footnotes Bibliography External links Middlesex at Oprah's Book Club Middlesex at The Pulitzer Prizes 2002 American novels Ambassador Book Award-winning works American bildungsromans American historical novels American LGBT novels Family saga novels Farrar, Straus and Giroux books Fiction with unreliable narrators Incest in fiction Intersex in fiction Novels about intersex Novels by Jeffrey Eugenides Novels set in Detroit Picaresque novels Postmodern novels Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning works Greek-American culture in Michigan