 Eragon was the third best @-@ selling children 's hardback book of 2003 , and the second best @-@ selling children 's paperback of 2005 . It placed on the New York Times Children 's Books Best Seller list for 121 weeks . In 2006 , the novel was awarded with a Nene Award by the children of Hawaii . It won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader 's Book Award and the Young Reader 's Choice Award the same year . 
