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USA Today put out a list of the topselling books (according to its calculations) for the last fifteen years. Guess who has seven out of the top ten? The article that goes along with the list had two points that stood out for me:
Oprah Winfrey, whose book club has made 62 selections since 1996, influenced but did not dominate the list. Five of her picks are in the top 150, including Eckhart Tolle’s self-help guide, A New Earth, at No. 31.
What’s not on the list:
Romance: Nora Roberts has a nearly permanent spot on the weekly list. But because she and other romance writers publish so often, it’s harder for any one title to stand out over a longer period.
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The frequency of diet books and John Grisham books was a bit surprising, but shouldn’t have been, now that I think about it. They are always on endcaps and getting huge displays at bookstores. So American readers are obsessed with weight and distracted by (interchangeable — to me) pulpy legal thrillers?
JK Rowling must be doing her own snoopy dance.
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….so, write one great book a year or three, or several mediocre books every few months? Decision, decisions.
It kinda bugs me to see The Secret, Tolle, and, ok, I’ll admit it, Joel Osteen on there, and only 2 classics (Fitzgerald and Orwell).
I was surprised how many of the list I had not read. In fact I perked up when I saw Green Eggs and Ham and the Hobbit. I also read the Narnia books and I have Macquire’s Wicked. I guess I’m just not a Best Seller type of girl.