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Copperfield's Books analyzes its book sales at year's end to determine what the public reads. Figures come from sales in all six new stores which provide a snapshot of Sonoma and Napa counties most-read books. Then each store's sales are further analyzed to show what is read in that particular city or region. For example, the Sebastopol store sales best reveal what West County reads. Analysis of the all the sales appears first and is followed by city and region specific information.
2011 Top 20 Books:
The Help dominated the bestselling books of 2011 by 10% over the next title (perhaps helped by the debut of the movie). The Hunger Games series was written for teens but captured an adult audience. All three titles made the top ten as follows: The Hunger Games (2), Catching Fire (5), and Mockingjay (7). (Last year Mockingjay and The Hunger Games featured at 9 and 10 on the list). Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone claimed the number three spot (up from number 5 on the 2010 list). The kids’ comic hero series Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever came in the fourth spot. Four new titles debuted on the 2011 list this year, two fiction, one biography and one history. They are Unbroken (6), Steve Jobs: A Biography (6), Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (9), and Visit from the Goon Squad (10). Eight of the top ten are works of fiction. In 2010, all ten were fiction. (Note: Every year, it seems one series dominates the list. In 2009, it the Twilight series, in 2010 Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Triology. Neither made the list for 2011, replaced by The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins.)
Honorable Mentions
The remaining ten spots for the top 20 are largely nonfiction and include biographies, science, history, humor and two kids books, and one fiction.
Kids series that did exceptionally well again in 2011:
Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney, The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, and
anything by Rick Riordan.
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