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1varielle
Well the books should be closed (ha ha) for last year. Has anyone seen any listings for the bestsellers? Here's a link to Barnes & Noble's top 100 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/the-top-100-bestsellers-of-the-year/_/N-1p4d and for brevity's sake here's the top ten:
1. Hidden Figures
2. Milk and Honey
3. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
4. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
5. Hillbilly Elegy
6. A Man Called Ove
7. Carve the Mark
8. Behind Closed Doors
9. Food, Health and Happiness
10. A Dog's Purpose
1. Hidden Figures
2. Milk and Honey
3. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
4. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
5. Hillbilly Elegy
6. A Man Called Ove
7. Carve the Mark
8. Behind Closed Doors
9. Food, Health and Happiness
10. A Dog's Purpose
2varielle
Amazon's top 10. https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2016/books
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
2. Strengths Finder 2.0
3. First 100 Words
4. The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up
5. Oh, the Places You'll Go
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #11
7. When Breath Becomes Air
8. Giraffes Can't Dance
9. The Five Love Languages
10. The Whole 30
I really must be out of touch, most of these I've never heard of.
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
2. Strengths Finder 2.0
3. First 100 Words
4. The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up
5. Oh, the Places You'll Go
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #11
7. When Breath Becomes Air
8. Giraffes Can't Dance
9. The Five Love Languages
10. The Whole 30
I really must be out of touch, most of these I've never heard of.
3Tess_W
Well I've heard of the Harry Potter, the Dr. Seuss and The Wimpy Kids, but they are children's/YA books. I think we could get a better list if they took the kids/YA books out and also separated fiction from non-fiction?
I like this list better because it's from Nielsen which ran a survey. What you have listed above are best sellers; but not necessarily most read. Once a book is purchased and read oft times it's passed to a friend, relative, etc., to read again; therefore not showing up in the purchase, but showing up when people are surveyed.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/7...
I like this list better because it's from Nielsen which ran a survey. What you have listed above are best sellers; but not necessarily most read. Once a book is purchased and read oft times it's passed to a friend, relative, etc., to read again; therefore not showing up in the purchase, but showing up when people are surveyed.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/7...
4Polite_Society
>3 Tess_W: While I completely struck out with Varielle's lists, I only did slightly better with yours, having long ago read both To Kill A Mockingbird and Green Eggs and Ham. :)
5varielle
Just came across this 2016 list from Business Insider:
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
2. When Breath Becomes Air
3. The Whistler
4. The Last Mile
5. Killing the Rising Sun
6. Hillbilly Elegy
7. Truly Madly Guilty
8. Night School: A Jack Reacher Novel
9. The Black Widow
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
I had only heard of four of these.
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
2. When Breath Becomes Air
3. The Whistler
4. The Last Mile
5. Killing the Rising Sun
6. Hillbilly Elegy
7. Truly Madly Guilty
8. Night School: A Jack Reacher Novel
9. The Black Widow
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
I had only heard of four of these.
