Sunday, December 18, 2011

Amazon's Bestselling Books of 2011

The Steve Jobs biography is Amazon's bestselling book of the year.  Couple of fantasy titles on the top 10 list, A Dance with Dragons and Inheritance.  This goes part of the way towards confirming a suspicion I had some time ago: that the Amazon "best of" list for fantasy and sci-fi is based on sales, not quality.  Or even on good reviews from readers.

It would be, I think, difficult to come up with a top 10 list unless you'd read everything that came out in a year.  I certainly don't have time for that.  Maybe the Klausner-bot could pretend to.  My own compromise for a top 10 list will be choosing from among the books I read in 2011, or at least since I started writing reviews on this blog in May or June, because at least I have a list of those on my reviews page.  These books may not have been published or released in 2011, but I don't care.  This is my blog and that's how I'm going to do things!

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