Top 10 books on April 29, 2009 and in 1961

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From Amazon today:

  1. Conservatism
  2. Da Vinci Code 2 
  3. Vampires
  4. Vampires
  5. Inspirational Christian novel
  6. Vampires
  7. Vampires (by a different author than the other 3)
  8. Set of four books… about vampires
  9. Pop-science
  10. Vampires

Publishers Weekly from 1961:

  1. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
  2. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
  3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  4. Mila 18 by Leon Uris
  5. The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
  6. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  7. Winnie Ille Pu by Alexander Lenard (translation of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne)
  8. Daughter of Silence by Morris West
  9. The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
  10. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

i don’t care if this is pretentious or whatever (i hate that word more than anything, and most of the time people don’t even apply it in the right context, but anyway), this is seriously upsetting.