Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Amazon.co.uk reveals top 100 titles for 2009 03.11.09 Graeme Neill in The Bookseller

A title promoting the benefits of growing one's own pharmaceuticals and two of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy are among Amazon.co.uk's bestselling new releases of 2009 so far.

In a top 100 revealed on its website, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol unsurprisingly sits at number one. However, the top 10 is an eclectic mix of books including a title about cupcake cookery, a work of fiction from one of the Big Beasts and Booker winner Wolf Hall.

Larsson's conclusion to the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, is the second bestselling new release with his previous book, The Girl Who Played With Fire, at number seven. James Wong's Grow Your Own Drugs rounds out the top three.

While it has only been on sale since the start of October, Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals sold enough copies to get it into Amazon.co.uk's top 10.

Amazon.co.uk also reveals the 10 most watched book videos, with Nigel Slater's Tender ahead of Dead Until Dark: A True Blood Novel by Charlaine Harris, the first in Harris' "TrueBlood" series.

The top 10 "2009" bestsellers:

1. Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol (Bantam)

2. Stieg Larrson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Quercus)

3. James Wong - Grow Your Own Drugs (HarperCollins)

4. Anthony Beevor - D-Day (Viking)

5. Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate)

6. Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals (Doubleday)

7. Stieg Larrson - The Girl Who Played with Fire (Quercus)

8. Rick Stein - Far Eastern Odyssey (BBC Books)

9. Wilbur Smith - Assegai (Macmillan)

10. Tarek Malouf - The Hummingbird Bakery's Cookbook (Ryland, Peters and Small)

The top 10 most watched book videos:

1. Tender by Nigel Slater

2. Dead Until Dark: A True Blood Novel by Charlaine Harris

3. Flanimals Pop-Up by Ricky Gervais

4. Simon's Cat by Simon Tofield

5. And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer

6. The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell

7. The Atheist's Guide to Christmas by Ariane Sherine

8. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

9. The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes

10. The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain by Si King and Dave Myers

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