Desperate for the year-end traffic, rather than getting things right, The Guardian now offers a list of the Top 100 bestselling books of 2012.
(As you may have noticed, 2012 is not actually over, so any such list is, if not entirely so certainly partially premature; with for example titles ranked 58 through 60 separated by a mere thirteen copies sold it is not unthinkable that the actual rankings could change in the coming days.)
It's unclear exactly what kind of bestseller list this is; the best they offer by way of explanation is:
Well, whatever is being counted here, a few of these books are -- surprisingly, I guess -- under review at the complete review:
It's unclear exactly what kind of bestseller list this is; the best they offer by way of explanation is:
The data comes care of Nielsen Bookscan, which collects the retail sales information from point of sale systems in more than 31,500 bookshops around the world. The big caveat is that it does not provide collated sales across e-books and physical books so this is just the print version.'Around the world' ...... And yet the list also seems to be restricted to English-language books (or are they counting foreign sales of translations-from-the-English ?) Personally, I'd prefer national lists -- or an exact list of where these bookshops are located.
Well, whatever is being counted here, a few of these books are -- surprisingly, I guess -- under review at the complete review:
- 38. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- 62. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- 67. The Fear Index by Robert Harris
- 72. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
- 75. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
- [89. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel]