Harry Potter and the Half-baked Writer
The U.S. book news site, The Book Standard, has published a list of the top 200 bestselling books of 2005 in the U.S. Not surprisingly, the latest Harry Potter was #1. In second is James Frey’s Oprah-endorsed memoir, A Million Little Pieces. “Frey’s drug-rehab memoir sold 1,769,000 units as a paperback since its publication in September,” says The Book Standard. Rounding out the top five, in order, are: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, 1776 by David McCullough, and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. The top Canadian-authored book is Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink at #13, sandwiched between Your Best Life Now by toothy TV preacher Joel Osteen and Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About by shifty TV huckster Kevin Trudeau.
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