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1varielle
US Fiction
1. The Testament John Grisham 2,554 copies on LT
2. Hannibal Thomas Harris 2,536 copies
3. Assassins Jerry B. Jenkins 752 copies
4. Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace, Terry Brooks 748 copies
5. Timeline, Michael Crichton 2,462 copies
6. Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King 2,102 copies
7. Apollyon, Jerry B. Jenkins 794 copies
8. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King 2,171 copies
9. Irresistible Forces, Danielle Steel 111 copies
10. Tara Road, Maeve Benchy 1,249 copies
Non-Fiction
1. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom 4,870 copies
2. The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw 948 copies
3. Guinness Wolrd Records 2000 Millenium Edition 95 copies
4. 'Tis, Frank McCourt 2,447 copies
5. Who Moved My Cheese, Spencer Johnson 1,706 copies
6. The Courage to be Rich, Suze Orman 172 copies
7. The Greatest Generation Speaks, Tom Brokaw 229 copies
8. Sugar Busters, H. Leighton Steward 106 copies
9. The Art of Happiness, Dalai Lama 1,029 copies
10. The Century, Peter Jennings 312 copies
My social life must have been interfering with my reading during this time period. I've read none of the fiction. I have picked up Tuesdays with Morrie, The Courage to be Rich, The Greatest Generation and the Dalai Lama's book from yardsales and have gotten around to reading none of them. My previous employer bought a ton of the Who Moved my Cheese books to distribute to our employees along with the accompanying video. The employees of course bemoaned this saying they were all going to get fired. We said, no it just means things are going to change. Of course the employees were right, when the company booked off to China leaving us all flat. So beware if anybody tries to give you that book.
1. The Testament John Grisham 2,554 copies on LT
2. Hannibal Thomas Harris 2,536 copies
3. Assassins Jerry B. Jenkins 752 copies
4. Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace, Terry Brooks 748 copies
5. Timeline, Michael Crichton 2,462 copies
6. Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King 2,102 copies
7. Apollyon, Jerry B. Jenkins 794 copies
8. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King 2,171 copies
9. Irresistible Forces, Danielle Steel 111 copies
10. Tara Road, Maeve Benchy 1,249 copies
Non-Fiction
1. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom 4,870 copies
2. The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw 948 copies
3. Guinness Wolrd Records 2000 Millenium Edition 95 copies
4. 'Tis, Frank McCourt 2,447 copies
5. Who Moved My Cheese, Spencer Johnson 1,706 copies
6. The Courage to be Rich, Suze Orman 172 copies
7. The Greatest Generation Speaks, Tom Brokaw 229 copies
8. Sugar Busters, H. Leighton Steward 106 copies
9. The Art of Happiness, Dalai Lama 1,029 copies
10. The Century, Peter Jennings 312 copies
My social life must have been interfering with my reading during this time period. I've read none of the fiction. I have picked up Tuesdays with Morrie, The Courage to be Rich, The Greatest Generation and the Dalai Lama's book from yardsales and have gotten around to reading none of them. My previous employer bought a ton of the Who Moved my Cheese books to distribute to our employees along with the accompanying video. The employees of course bemoaned this saying they were all going to get fired. We said, no it just means things are going to change. Of course the employees were right, when the company booked off to China leaving us all flat. So beware if anybody tries to give you that book.
2DaynaRT
I own, and have read, the Star Wars book. That's all for me this year, although my mom kept trying to push the Sugar Busters book on me. I listed it on BookMooch and probably got something more interesting in return.
3vpfluke
In the past, I have owned a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records, but no longer, and I am not sure what year. I did go over to try and do some combining effort on this series. (yearly, more or less since 1962, but earliest volumes did not have date in title).
I remember seeing TV talk about Tom Brokaw's books, but I never read them. But it did encourage that generation to speak. I remember being given a tour (~2002) of a Navy aircraft carrier of the same class that my stepfather served on during WWII. He was a navigation officer and pilot, and knew where everything was (I had to look at the signs) and explained it.
I remember seeing TV talk about Tom Brokaw's books, but I never read them. But it did encourage that generation to speak. I remember being given a tour (~2002) of a Navy aircraft carrier of the same class that my stepfather served on during WWII. He was a navigation officer and pilot, and knew where everything was (I had to look at the signs) and explained it.
6keren7
I own and have read Who moved my cheese and Tuesdays with morrie.
7SanctiSpiritus
I admit reading #'s 1, 2, & 5.
8Shortride
The two Left Behind books and Tuesdays With Morrie for me.
9LouisBranning
1999 appears to be an extremely lackluster year for popular fiction (I only read Hearts in Atlantis), and Michael Korda in Making the List agrees saying, the list "made for depressing reading, except to accountants", with a lot of predictable fiction aggressively marketed, "netting at the top, enormous numbers". As a result it became seriously difficult for any quality fiction "to break through the sheer weight of numbers generated by perhaps 2 dozen, or fewer, top writers, who virtually dominated both lists".
Despite this big-book dominance, there were still a few great books out in 1999. Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer for The Hours, Ha Jin the NBA for Waiting, and Jonathan Lethem's cross-genre masterpiece Motherless Brooklyn won the NBCC prize. Others that arrived in '99: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Kingsolver's awesome The Poisonwood Bible, Kent Haruf's Plainsong, Stewart O'Nan's greatest book A Prayer for the Dying, and Roddy Doyle's thrilling A Star Called Henry. In non-fiction Peter Guralnick came out with volume 2 of his landmark biography of EP, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley.
The real big-book story of 1999 however, was the break-through of Harry Potter, who was on Time's cover mid-year, and America's love for Harry grew like wildfire from that point forward, with The Prisoner of Azkaban, still then being referred to as the 3rd of a trilogy, outselling every other book in sight.
Despite this big-book dominance, there were still a few great books out in 1999. Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer for The Hours, Ha Jin the NBA for Waiting, and Jonathan Lethem's cross-genre masterpiece Motherless Brooklyn won the NBCC prize. Others that arrived in '99: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Kingsolver's awesome The Poisonwood Bible, Kent Haruf's Plainsong, Stewart O'Nan's greatest book A Prayer for the Dying, and Roddy Doyle's thrilling A Star Called Henry. In non-fiction Peter Guralnick came out with volume 2 of his landmark biography of EP, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley.
The real big-book story of 1999 however, was the break-through of Harry Potter, who was on Time's cover mid-year, and America's love for Harry grew like wildfire from that point forward, with The Prisoner of Azkaban, still then being referred to as the 3rd of a trilogy, outselling every other book in sight.
