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Jocelyn McClurg
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Jennifer Aniston is a fan of "The Girl on the Train."

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Gaining steam: Add Jennifer Aniston to the chorus of celebrity voices raving about Paula Hawkins' psychological thriller, The Girl on the Train, which is No. 1 again this week. Aniston recently posted about the novel on Instagram under the Living Proof Inc. account (Aniston co-owns the beauty product company). "COULD. NOT. PUT. DOWN. Now late for dinner #obsessed," the actress wrote.

Train really is the little engine that could. Publisher Riverhead just announced that the book has sold 2 million copies (the e-book is outselling the print version this week, according to USA TODAY's data), making it the blockbuster of 2015 so far. Published with a first hardcover printing of a mere 40,000 copies, the book was a hit out of the gate, landing at No. 2 on Jan. 22. It's been either No. 1 or No. 2 every week since.

Other celeb fans of the book, a twisty story about a young woman's disappearance in England, include Reese Witherspoon, Bachelorette's Andi Dorfman, and AJ Michalka of ABC's The Goldbergs.

DreamWorks has acquired film rights and Tate Taylor (The Help) will direct.

Pure Franzen:Purity by Jonathan Franzen will be one of the biggest books of the fall, and the author of The Corrections and Freedom was the opening act Wednesday at BookExpo in New York. His novel, due Sept. 1, is about Pip Tyler, a young woman who doesn't know who her father is. Her internship in the Sunlight Project in South America leads her to the organization's mysterious German founder, Andreas Wolf. Franzen said the novel, which includes an early murder, is more plot-driven than most of his books, which he called "a little risky" but "fun." He wanted to write a page-turner, he surprisingly confessed. "I wanted to make sure readers keep reading."

Go Dr. Seuss!: You know it's graduation season when Dr. Seuss's wildly popular Oh, the Places You'll Go! starts zooming up the list. This week the classic 1990 picture book, celebrating its 25th anniversary, is No. 2. Go! has spent 315 weeks total on USA TODAY's list, which began in fall 1993.

The picture book hit No. 1 once, on June 12, 1997, and No. 2 one other time, on June 5, 1997. Last year it climbed as high as No. 3, on May 29. It's sold more than 12 million copies.

"Oh, the Places You'll Go!"

Seuss, who died in 1991, has had 25 USA TODAY best sellers, but Oh, the Places You'll Go! is the only one to hit No. 1. That could happen again this summer, though, when a newly discovered Seuss book, What Pet Should I Get? (Random House), will be published on July 28. But Seuss will have some stiff summer competition: Harper Lee's novel Go Set a Watchman is being released on July 14.

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