Highest New York Times best-seller placing by a "mash-up" novel

A "mash-up" is a work of fiction that combines a pre-existing text – often a literary classic, for which the copyright has expired – with new text written by a contemporary author. The highest that a mash-up novel has ever ranked on the New York Times best-seller list is third, a feat achieved in 2009 by Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – a hybrid of Jane Austen’s 19th-century period romance with a futuristic tale of the undead, extreme violence and the demise of civilization. The book’s (second) author, Seth Grahame-Smith, went on to pen another mash-up – Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter – which was adapted into a movie by director Tim Burton.