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Really? The data is only grouped by week? Despite how much I'd love to read 52 books a year, the actual number is closer to 10. Best books of the month/year is
by coryfklein 9y ago
Really? The data is only grouped by week? Despite how much I'd love to read 52 books a year, the actual number is closer to 10.
Best books of the month/year is an order of magnitude more useful to me than what people are reading this week.
- dredmorbius 9y agoI also prefer seeing how my information ages: http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/ http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/ http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/ http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/ I'm more inclined to the Board's list than the (self-selecting, possibly motivated) Readers'. WEF have a list of the 20 most influenctial books: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/the-20-most-influential-books-in-history/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/the-20-most-influenti... Wikipedia has an (IMO) fascinating list of the most-sold books of all time. The Bible and Quotations from Chairman Mao (a/k/a "The Little Red Book") each have claims of over 1 billion volumes (1-6 being the range) sold. The next highest-selling book, Don Quixote, at 500m copies. Contrast that with the most-viewed YouTube video of all time -- Gangnam Style has amassed 2.8 billion views in five years. That's still the YouTube record so far as I'm aware. That makes me wonder what the highest number of impressions of any one media work has been. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0