Bestselling books of the decade

[SiHart]

This is one of the most unsurprising lists I've seen:

1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling
3 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling
4 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling
5 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling
6 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling
7 Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
8 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling
9 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling
10 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

But does that reflect your reading? What have been your favourite books for the decade?

Si xx

[cullsoft]

I'm not really one to pass judgement, but that list makes me feel culturally dissapopinted. Ten years, and the "best" of our writing turns out to be pretty much a single series of "advanced children's" books and a couple from another series which I feel owes a lot of its popularity to counter-religious shock value.

Off the top of my head, the book that I've enjoyed most that came out this decade was probably Rick Wakeman's "Grumpy Old Rock Star"; I believe that any other books I've been reading were probably from before 2000 (though finally getting started on reading Terry Pratchett was probably my biggest literary high point).

[WhiteCrowNZ]

I'm hoping with the once the last of the Harry Potter movies is made, the whole Harry Potter mania will die down a bit. How can the last of the books have sold more than the others? Surely you needed to read the others to read the last.

Actually I should kind of get around to reading that last one sometimes. Although as you might have guessed I've kind of got bored with the series. I noticed too Robert Jordans Wheel of Time series has finally finished - something I also started and ended up royally sick of.

This is Mr Grumpy signing off!

[Andrew Curnow]

I've read all but two of those, so clearly they've got the list about right!!

It does seem an unrepresentative list though, I wonder what other books would have made the top ten if they'd included Potter just once as a 'combined series' figure?