Lost Symbol Climbs to 2 Million Copies Sold

Novelist Dan Brown's new book "The Lost Symbol" surpassed the 2 million mark and has surpassed Bill Clinton's "My life" and now stands alone in the record books.

Although Brown's novel didn't approach the eight million copies of "Harry Potter and The Deadly Hallows" retailed in its first 24 hours, the weekly units sold were an all-time high in North America for Random House Inc., the publishing company who owns the Doubleday book club.

A Doubleday representative pronounced Tuesday that hard cover, audio, and e-books sales for "The Lost Symbol" vended two million copies in its first week of release in the United States, Britain, and Canada.

Brown's new novel was released on September 15 with a preliminary print run for five million copies, in which was quickly increased to 5.6 million. Brown is best known for his "The Da Vinci Code" that was published in 2003 and has sold over 40 million copies worldwide.